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Quality is more important than quantity: Social presence and workplace ergonomics control predict perceived remote work performance
(2023-01-06)The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a widespread disruption to the way that we work. One of its lasting consequences will be the ubiquity of remote work. The effective use of collaboration tools is therefore a critical factor ... -
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 ... -
The Respectful Terminologies Platform Project and Envisioning Indigenous Governance
(Canadian Association for Information Science / l’Association canadienne des sciences de l’information (CAIS/ACSI), 2023-06-08)This paper will discuss the Respectful Terminologies Platform Project (RTPP), a project focused on creating a system of Indigenous terminologies, and questions of governance within cataloging and other descriptive practices. ... -
Retail apocalypse: The case of Sears Canada Inc.
(2018)In an increasingly digital world, retailers have never faced such a competitive environment. Many large chains have been forced to either radically transform their business models or cease operations. Such radical changes ... -
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 ... -
Sad Cows and Empty Pockets: How Reviews, Recommendations, and Word-of-Mouth Can Affect Your Life
(2013-02-23)For financial endeavours that affect their immediate financial and physical well-being – finding a doctor, hiring a lawyer - people turn to trustworthy sources like family and friends for advice. For more frivolous matters ... -
Sea level rise impacts in coastal zones: Soft measures to cope with it
(2013-02-17)Sea level rise impacts are projected to cause multiple negative consequences in coastal zones such as coastal erosion, flooding, flood-related health problems, property damage and social-economic impacts. Thus, it is ... -
Seafood Ecolabels: For Whom and to What Purpose?
(2013-02-17)Ecolabelling is regarded as an important tool used as a means of promoting sustainable fisheries around the world, as they provide consumers with the opportunity to exercise a choice between different seafood products and ... -
The size distribution of probate wealthholdings in Nova Scotia in the late 19th century
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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 ...