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Contributor(s): Richard Hayman; Erika E. Smith
Date issued: 2020-03
Description: Objective - To review mixed methods research trends in the field of library and information science (LIS). In particular, we examine the extent to which research about or using mixed methods has been occurring in library and information science over the past decade (2008-2018), and how much of that mixed methods research is done in health contexts. Methods - We conducted a methodological review and analysis of mixed methods research (MMR) in LIS for published articles indexed in LISTA and Web of Science. After deduplication and verification for inclusion, we coded 417 articles to identify contributions using or about MMR. Given the connections between evidence based practice in health and...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Erik G. Christiansen
Date issued: 2019
Description: The Alberta OER Journal Club was started in Autumn of 2018 as a way of continuing the OER discussion in Alberta, following the end of the provincial government's one-time funding. The journal club hosts monthly Twitter chats where guest facilitators guide a discussion on a piece of OER literature. This presentation will review the background and development of this project, provide an overview of the format and best practices, and highlight the project's significance and surprises.
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Richard Hayman; Erika E. Smith; Hannah Storrs
Date issued: 2019
Description: Introduction -- This research investigates the information behaviour of undergraduate students seeking academic help via anonymous posts to a university Facebook Confessions page. While Confessions pages have gained popularity in post-secondary contexts, their use for educational purposes is largely unexplored. Method -- Researchers employed a mixed methods content analysis to investigate information behaviour and the thematic contents of the 2,712 confessions posted during one academic year. Analysis -- Using generic qualitative strategies informed by constructivist grounded theory, as well as quantitative descriptive statistical procedures, researchers found that 708 (26.1%) of these...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library; Teaching and Learning

Contributor(s): Peter Felten; Margy MacMillan; Joan Ruelle
Date issued: 2019
Description: This essay is the product of a collaboration between three authors who bring diverse understandings of SoTL, librarianship, and professional development. Writing this has been a form of professional development, encouraging the authors to think more deeply about discipline-based practices and how they connect to student learning, increasing understanding of each other’s disciplines, and transforming that joint reflection into work that may impact teaching.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Michael B. McNally; Erik G. Christiansen
Date issued: 2019
Description: Transitioning from closed courses and educational resources to open educational resources (OER) and open courseware (OCW) requires considerations of many factors beyond simply the use of an open licence. This paper examines the pedagogical choices and trade-offs involved in creating OER and OCW. Eight factors are identified that influence openness (open licensing, accessibility and usability standards, language, cultural considerations, support costs, digital distribution, and file formats). These factors are examined under closed, mixed and most open scenarios to relatively compare the amount of effort, willingness, skill and knowledge required. The paper concludes by suggesting that...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Margy MacMillan
Date issued: 2019
Description: The abstract introduces this collection of essays bridging the gap between librarians and the professional development (POD) community.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Margy MacMillan
Date issued: 2019
Description: The book in your hand represents an exciting moment in academic librarianship. Collectively, the work explicitly recognizes the deep connections between the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and the scholarly work of librarians. Individually, the essays and case studies demonstrate a remarkable range of how these connections support and strengthen our contributions to academic and student learning. SoTL provides a way of grounding our scholarly teaching within theories of learning both established and developing. It is a framework for contextualizing the learning we see (or don’t) through research conducted across the disciplines and a portal through which we can enter wider...
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Sara Sharun
Date issued: 2019
Description: This study presents a critical exploration of one of the ACRL Frameworkconcepts by examining it in the context of professional practice. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with health and human service professionals at a community health centre to explore how information literacy (IL) is experienced in the workplace. Value emerged as the dominant theme in participants’ descriptions of their information practices. This concept was conceived of predominantly in the context of personal and professional relationships that existed within the systems and structures of the physical workplace, professional practice and the health and social care system. Using phenomenography as a...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Richard Hayman
Date issued: 2018
Description: A Review of: Chang, Y-W. (2017). Comparative study of characteristics of authors between open access and non-open access journals in library and information science. Library & Information Science Research, 39(1), 8-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2017.01.002 Objective – To examine the occupational characteristics and publication habits of library and information science (LIS) authors regarding traditional journals and open access journals. Design – Content analysis. Setting – English language research articles published in open access (OA) journals and non-open access (non-OA) journals from 2008 to 2013 that are indexed in LIS databases. Subjects – The authorship characteristics for...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Jessie Loyer
Date issued: 2018
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Brian Jackson
Date issued: 2018
Description: Academic libraries have to a large extent taken the lead in facilitating new approaches to research data management, but changes to the research data landscape have had an impact on numerous areas of academic work, including ethics review. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis of interviews with chairs of Canadian research ethics boards, this study explores how ethics review boards have experienced changes to data policy and related technologies in order to describe the ethical implications of new approaches to data management and to explore ways in which the library, ethics review boards, and other campus partners might harmonize efforts to support emerging data practices. While...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Lauren Hays; Claes Dahlqvist; Erik G. Christiansen
Date issued: 2018
Description: Information literacy (IL) is both a discipline and transdisciplinary skill (ACRL, 2015). Its transdisciplinary and context-dependant application, as well as its theoretical underpinnings, make it a natural fit within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). IL is broadly defined as the ability to search for, select, critically evaluate and use information for solving problems in various contexts (ACRL Framework, 2015; SCONUL 7 Pillars, 2015). Previous decades of expansion and diversification in higher education - with a growing interest in research on teaching and learning (e.g. SoTL), along with the rapidly changing information landscape – has highlighted IL as an important...
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Richard Hayman; Erika E. Smith; Hannah Storrs
Date issued: 2018
Description: This research examines undergraduate students’ academic help-seeking behaviours by mining anonymous posts from a university Facebook Confessions page. From a dataset of 2,712 public posts, researchers identified 708 Confessions (26.1%) that supported student-student learning exchanges. Using a mixed methods methodology informed by a social constructivist framework, analysis of these social media interactions demonstrates that students use Confessions posts to legitimately inform their undergraduate learning and support their academic experience. Researchers conclude that Facebook Confessions can enable rich academic help-seeking and other information behaviours, and that these sites...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library; Teaching and Learning

Contributor(s): Erik G. Christiansen; Michael B. McNally
Date issued: 2018
Description: There is both a feeling of excitement and hesitation when mentioning open educational resources (OERs) to university educators. The idea of being an “open educator” and using only openly licensed teaching materials sounds noble. Such an approach has the potential to benefit students on multiple fronts. However, making the transition from closed to open resources requires a significant time investment from the instructor and requires specialized knowledge. These skills include an understanding of open licensing/copyright, accessibility standards, language and cultural considerations, anticipated support costs for the resource, digital distribution, file formats, and potential pedagogical...
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Erik G. Christiansen
Date issued: 2018
Description: This webinar presentation was delivered to the Psychology Librarians Canada group. The presentation outlines a SoTL project which aims to discover students' information literacy competencies in the Psychology undergraduate program at Mount Royal, and discusses how these competencies could be used to develop a scaffolded information literacy program.
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Margy MacMillan
Date issued: 2018
Description: Soon-to-be Professor Emerita, Margy MacMillan is currently a Senior Researcher with Project Information Literacy on their latest study "How Students Engage with News". The study surveyed over 5,800 students across 11 U.S. institutions about where they encountered news, what tools they used, what topics they followed and shared, and the role of news in their lives. It also asked specifically about the differences between their personal and academic news habits. The results were fascinating, and countered popular narratives of disengaged 'newsless' youth; on the contrary, following the news takes effort and time, and while many of the participants have developed effective strategies for...
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Erik G. Christiansen
Date issued: 2017
Description: This presentation provides an overview of the open education movement and open education resources (OER) policy directions in Western Canada. In addition, it discusses way libraries can support the open education movement and provides examples of provincial OER initiatives. This presentation was given at the 2017 Alberta Library Conference in Jasper, Alberta.
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Erik G. Christiansen
Date issued: 2017
Description: This lightning talk was given during an afternoon event hosted by the MRU Library Scholarship Sub-Committee on December 12, 2017. It discusses the progress of two research projects on open educational resources (OER) - one of OER policy in Western Canada and the other on the challenges introduced by openness in higher education.
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Brian Jackson
Date issued: 2017
Description: The ways in which university quality assessments are developed reveal a great deal about value constructs surrounding higher education. Measures developed and consumed by external stakeholders, in particular, indicate which elements of academia are broadly perceived to be most reflective of quality. This paper examines the historical context of library quality assessment and reviews the literature related to how library value is framed in three forms of external evaluation: accreditation, university rankings, and student surveys. The review finds that the library’s contribution to university quality, when it is considered at all, continues to be measured in terms of collections, spaces,...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

Contributor(s): Richard Hayman
Date issued: 2017
Description: A Review of: O’Toole, E., Barham, R., & Monahan, J. (2016). The impact of physically embedded librarianship on academic departments. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 16(3), 529-556. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pla.2016.0032 Abstract Objective – To examine whether liaison librarian interactions increase when librarians are physically embedded in their liaison areas. Design – Natural experiment using quantitative measures. Setting – A large, public university in the United States of America. Subjects – Liaison librarian reference interactions. Methods – This research is organized around four primary research questions that examine the effect of liaison librarian physical, co-located...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): University Library

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Mixed methods research in library and information science: A methodological review

#aboerjc: The Alberta OER Journal Club

Information behaviour of undergraduate students using Facebook Confessions for educational purposes

SoTL difference: The value of incorporating SoTL into librarian professional development

Open enough? Eight factors to consider when transitioning from closed to open resources and courses: A conceptual framework

Foreword to Building Teaching and Learning Communities: Creating Shared Meaning and Purpose

Foreword [to The Grounded Instruction Librarian: Participating in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning]

Exploring value as a dimension of professional information literacy

LIS Practitioner-focused Research Trends Toward Open Access Journals, Academic-focused Research Toward Traditional Journals [Evidence Summary]

Indigenous Information Literacy: nêhiyaw Kinship Enabling Self-Care in Research

The Changing Research Data Landscape and the Experiences of Ethics Review Board Chairs: Implications for Library Practice and Partnerships

Helping Students Develop Information Skills is Everyone's Business: Examining Information Contexts

Undergraduate Students' Academic Information and Help-Seeking Behaviours using an Anonymous Facebook Confessions Page

Open Enough? Eight Factors to Consider when Transitioning from Closed to Open Resources and Courses: A Conceptual Framework

Creating Information Literacy Competencies for Psychology Undergraduates

Project Information Literacy: News About Students and News

Open, Get Ready! Public and Academic Libraries' Support for Open Education in Canada

Openly Obsessed: Open Educational Resources Policy in Western Canada & Conceptualizing Openness in Higher Education

The Representation of Library Value in Extra-Institutional Evaluations of University Quality

Embeddedness Creates Opportunities for Enhanced Library Liaison Services and Relationships [Evidence Summary]

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