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Social discovery systems in public libraries: If we build them, will they come?
(Library Trends, 2012)If the public library catalogue is to continue to have relevance to its users, it needs to move beyond its current inventory model, where all content is designed and controlled by library staff and client interaction with ... -
Social Discovery Tools: Cataloguing Meets User Convenience.
(Canadian Association for Information Science, 2011)The paper discusses (a) the ethical dimensions of creating catalogue records to reflect user convenience, (b) the relationship between culture and user convenience, and (c) how social discovery tools can facilitate the ... -
Social Tagging as a Knowledge Organization and Resource Discovery Tool
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the social tagging phenomenon, including how it evolved and the debate surrounding its benefits and limitations. Further, social tagging's potential as a new tool for ... -
South African Public Libraries After Apartheid
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2006)One of the challenges a postcolonial society has to face is reconciliation, the righting of wrongs and forgiveness. In South Africa, this includes the integration of all ethnic groups into every part of society. Public ... -
The Spirit of Radio
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2005)As a source of information, local radio transcends the conveyance of explicit knowledge about a community and provides a tacit knowledge of the character of a community and a person's place within it. The speed and pattern ... -
Stability of Curved Interfaces in the Perturbed Two-Dimensional Allen-Cahn System
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2009)We consider the singular limit of a perturbed Allen-Cahn model on a bounded two-dimensional domain: $\left\{\begin{array}{@{}ll@{}} u_t = \varepsilon^2 \Delta u - 2 (u - \varepsilon a) (u^2 - 1), & x \in \Omega \subset ... -
Stillborn: Regulated midwifery in Nova Scotia
(2013-02-17)The purpose of this paper is to investigate why midwifery policy has failed in Nova Scotia while it has succeeded elsewhere. The primary focus will be to analyse the Nova Scotia policy and its implementation through Paul ... -
The structure and form of folksonomy tags: The road to the public library catalog
(2007-09)This article examines the linguistic structure of folksonomy tags collected over a thirty-day period from the daily tag logs of Delicious, Furl, and Technorati. The tags were evaluated against the National Information ... -
Submit or Resist: Google, is There a Third Way?
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2006)This article explores the impact that Google is having on the library profession. Google is enticing users away from their local libraries with its siren song of easy use and ?good enough? results, and librarians are ... -
Subsidies and their Implications on Fisheries Management in St. Lucia
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)Worldwide, fisheries subsidies contribute to fleet overcapacity, to overfishing, and to the decimation of the marine environment. Despite the fact that small-scale fisheries catch roughly the same amount of edible fish ... -
SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AND CORPORATE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE G20 COUNTRIES
(2023-04-12)This study analyzes the relationship between sustainability and financial performance in a sample of G20 firms over a decade (2010-2021), while controlling for relevant variables. Results show a positive bidirectional ... -
A systematic map of knowledge exchange across the science-policy interface for forest science: How can we improve consistency and effectiveness?
(Wiley & Sons, 2023)Knowledge produced by scientists is essential to the policy and practice of managing natural resources, including forests. However, there has never been systematic mapping of which techniques in knowledge exchange (KE) ... -
A systematic mapping protocol for understanding knowledge exchange in forest science
(Wiley & Sons, 2021-05-08)1. When making decisions about forest and environmental management, managers and policymakers often rely upon scientific knowledge. There is awell-documented ‘knowledge–integration gap’ where often the production of ... -
Taking The Game Out Of Gamification
(2013-02-23)Gamification purports to take elements from video games such as points, badges, levels, etc. and use them to motivate people to perform tasks outside of traditional video games. This paper challenges these claims by arguing ... -
Talking Through the Keys
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2005)New technologies such as e-mail and instant messaging predispose themselves to a less formal style of writing than traditional letter-writing; however, thoughtful communication is still possible through these mediums. -
THEY/THEM/THEIR: GENDER-NEUTRAL PRONOUNS ON NAMETAGS AND CONSUMERS’ MICROAGGRESSIONS TOWARDS THEM
(2022-12-15)This study draws on theories from psychology and sociology to examine how consumers will react to non-binary individuals in sales and service situations. Results from an online experiment show that consumers tend to evaluate ... -
Thrills, Chills, and Controversy: The Success of R. L. Stine's Goosebumps
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)This paper investigates the popularity of and controversy surrounding R. L. Stine‘s Goosebumps series. The books were very popular with children in the 1990s, yet the fact that they are series novels and they belong to the ...