Presentation by Keynote speaker, Aaron Johnson

Generative artificial intelligence has become a crucial topic in the library and information science field over the past year. The use of tools that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) is rapidly disrupting practices in content creation and information retrieval, and it is urgent to test this technology’s potential impacts in the context of libraries’ user-centred services like reference, instruction, and research support.This session will present an overview of the work done to date...

When Jesuits returned to Canada in the 1840s, searching for and consolidating records that had been left behind in the aftermath of the suppression of their order in 1773 was a top priority. In addition to this work, Félix Martin, S.J.—the first archivist of the Jesuits in Canada—and subsequent archivists set out to copy records about New France held in Europe. Through this process, the Jesuits sought to build a coherent narrative of their order in Canada, and a sense of continuity with their...

Archival documents have become a point of distinction between Canadian universities, where the privileging of electronic resources had led to a homogenization of materials available across institutions. Unique research collections laden with primary source resources are points of distinction between universities and form an important part of the research landscape in higher education.University-based repositories work to build unique collections that respond to the needs and interest o...

This study aimed to compare the bibliographic record duplication rates between books published in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada and identify the causes of duplicate records in OCLC WorldCat. The aim was also to illustrate the causes of duplicate records with examples, taking the opportunity to review earlier cataloging standards and identify common pitfalls. There was an attempt to rank the causes in order by most impactful with the intention of informing cataloging practi...

Dans l’ouvrage « Pour une histoire des femmes bibliothécaires au Québec » , les auteurs et autrice écrivent que « malgré une présence marquée au cours du siècle dernier…, les femmes bibliothécaires ont très peu fait l’objet de recherche au Québec » (Lajeunesse et al., 2020). Dans cette communication, je voudrais contribuer à l’étude des bibliothécaires québécoises et canadiennes en produisant des données sur leur présence dans Wikidata, Wikipédia ainsi que dans des ouvrages sur l’histoire des...

The Library of Parliament catalogues material in English and French, using three controlled vocabularies for subject analysis (LCSH, CSH and RVM). In 2021, Library and Archives Canada began revising Canadian Subject Headings for describing material with Indigenous content. This presentation will cover the work undertaken by the Library of Parliament's Information Description team to implement these changes at the Library of Parliament, both from a policy and from a technical perspective. It w...