Browsing Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management (DJIM) by Title
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Geospatial Information Management: Spatial is Still Special
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2005)This paper focuses on the interface between human information constructs and spatial decision making. Information policies associated with geospatial information are at the crux of any further development of infrastructures ... -
Google Book Search and the Future of Libraries
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)Google Book Search (GBS) is a service provided by Google that allows for the searching of the full text of millions of books from some of the world’s most renowned library collections. Two distinct view points are found ... -
Grey Space: Call Centres and the Information Society
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)Over the past decade, call centres have become a rising industry in contemporary globalized society, particularly in smaller towns and economically underdeveloped areas. The call centre industry has been both praised and ... -
Historical GIS Projects: Spatial Data Infrastructure
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)The use of historical GIS (HGIS) in humanities and social sciences research has added dimensions to scholarship in terms of both analysis and visualization. The construction of appropriate HGIS systems for the integration ... -
The Importance of Knowledge Management and Trust in Relation to Disaster Response
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)This article investigates the importance of Knowledge Management (KM) and trust in disaster response. In KM, a lack of trust and non-reciprocity of information can hinder the process of knowledge transfer. Similarly, a ... -
Information Warfare: Doing Battle in the 21st Century
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)This paper outlines Information Warfare as perceived by Western militaries. It maps out and defines Information Warfare as a multi-faceted strategy that relies on coherent and synchronized application of virtual and physical ... -
Managing Current Complexity: Critical Energy Infrastructure Failures in North America
(2013-02-23)This paper applies the competing theories of High Reliability Organizations (HRO) and Normal Accidents Theory (NAT), two competing views of risk management in highly-complex and tightly-coupled systems, in analyzing the ... -
The Myth of Free: The Hidden Costs of Open Source Software
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)Open source software (OSS) has become increasingly visible in recent years as a viable option for library automation. Many libraries rely on an integrated library system (ILS) to perform automation and library functions. ... -
NetWrite: A New Breed of Communication
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)This paper examines the recent linguistic phenomena of texting and instant messaging, paying particular attention to the unique linguistic properties exhibited in digital communications. Through an examination of the use ... -
New Textual Formats: Reading online is re-wiring the human brain and changing how we process information
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)The experience of reading online is different from reading the hard copy of a printed item. This is relevant to librarians and those in the information studies field who need to be aware that the way young people and future ... -
No Magic Solution: An examination of the arguments in favour of contracting out government services
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)This paper examines the arguments commonly used to support contracting out service delivery to the private sector and attempts to demonstrate that these arguments overestimate the benefits of contracting out. First, the ... -
Perceptions of Privacy and the Consequences of Apathy: Biometrics in the 21st Century
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)Privacy, long considered one of our most valuable rights, is at risk. Younger generations are increasingly becoming de-sensitized to the disclosure of their personal and confidential information. With little or no ... -
Privacy and Online Social Networks: A Proposed Approach for Academic Librarians in University Libraries
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2008)This paper analyzes the ways in which academic librarians in university settings can educate the staff, students, and public involved in the library community of both the risks and benefits of involvement in online social ... -
Protecting Personal Information Nova Scotia’s Personal Information International Disclosure Protection Act and the USA Patriot Act
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009-01-01)This paper looks at Nova Scotia's Personal Information International Disclosure Protection Act (PIIDPA), a piece of legislation that was specifically designed to protect Nova Scotia's citizens from having their personal ... -
Public Libraries as Aids to Sense Making in Urban Aboriginal Populations
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2006)Aboriginal peoples in Canada increasingly reside in areas outside of their designated reserve lands, with large numbers living in many of the country's Census Metropolitan Areas. This paper discusses the potential for ... -
Qualitative evidence, knowledge translation, and policy-making, with reference to health technology assessment
(2013-02-23)Although efforts to draw qualitative evidence into health-related policy-making and health technology assessment (HTA) processes have increased in recent years, the range of sources consulted are still limited and the ... -
The Reader’s Devices: The Affordances of Ebook Readers
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)Print books and ebook devices now co-exist in a reading eco-system. The ways in which readers understand and describe their experience of reading on ebook devices is shaped by long-established cultural expectations about ... -
Reducing Resistance to the Adoption of Open Source Systems
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2008)This paper examines the background and psychology of the open source movement and suggests ways to decrease resistance to the adoption of open source systems in libraries, which have typically favoured proprietary systems. ... -
Reference Analysis as an Aid in Collection Development: A Study of Master of Architecture Theses at Dalhousie University
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)Librarians face difficult collection management decisions due to the proliferation of potential resources and the limited funding available to libraries. Reference analysis can act as a tool for selecting and de selecting ... -
Risk Management For Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) In The Marine Environment
(2013-02-14)After World Wars I and II large amounts of explosive ordnance remained undetonated. Already deployed ordnance was left uncollected and excess supplies were disposed of, sometimes recklessly. The result is that much of this ...