Karen Jensen
Sessions auxquelles Karen Jensen participe
Mercredi 17 Avril, 2024
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...
Sessions auxquelles Karen Jensen assiste
Mardi 16 Avril, 2024
In the Canadian context, there is a notable dearth of professional literature focusing on racial minority librarians conducted by racial minority librarians. To address this gap, a team of six librarians, representing the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada (ViMLoC) network, undertook a second comprehensive survey in 2021, building on the initial survey conducted in 2013. The 2021 survey, which included data from 162 minority librarians, served as the foundation for three peer-reviewe...
Sex – and media that depicts sex and sexually suggestive subject matter – remains stigmatised in western society. As pornography and sexually explicit material more broadly have become of increasing interest to researchers across several disciplines such as pornography studies and gender and sexuality studies, so too does the demand on institutions and practitioners in libraries, archives, and special collections to provide access to these materials. However, the taboo associated with the sub...
Following the introduction of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL, 2016) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, efforts to meaningfully promote and enact the more conceptually oriented form of post-secondary information literacy instruction (ILI) evinced by the document have spread. However, perceptions of the Framework as elitist or inaccessible; the persistence of one-shot sessions as the dominant ILI format; and the difficulty of teaching and learning...
We are performing a citation analysis of scholarly articles published in two Canadian public policy and public administration journals across five, one-year periods: 1994, 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019.Our main focus has been differentiating between citations to government sources and those to traditional academic literature and grey literature. Within the government sources we have differentiated between Canadian federal, non-federal and international sources, documents and records, and o...
This presentation will explore a collection, or rather an absence of collection, of moving image works in a Canadian academic institution. Between March 2020 and March 2022, faculty at Concordia University requested over 2,000 films in streaming format to be purchased or licensed by the university library for course and research use. Approximately one third of these requests were unable to be fulfilled due to licensing and rights limitations. Funded by the Concordia University Library Researc...
As of April 2022, the National Library of Medicine has converted to automatic indexing for MEDLINE citations thanks to the integration of The Medical Text Indexer (MTI). MTI has been incredibly impactful, with a notable decrease in the time it takes a MEDLINE citation to receive MeSH indexing. However, further work is needed to address some well-documented issues around the indexing genes and chemical compounds and their impact on information retrieval. To investigate these issues, this resea...