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The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: A Case Study of Social Discovery Systems in Two Canadian Public Libraries
(Canadian Society for Information Science, 2011-01-01)
This paper uses transaction log data to examine how library users interact with two social discovery systems used in two Canadian public library systems. Results indicate that user-generated content is not used extensively ...
Faceted navigation of social tagging applications
(ISKO-UK, 2011)
The goal of this paper is to conduct an analysis of seventeen existing and proposed methodologies for the use of facets in social tagging applications, with particular emphasis placed on the extent to which these methodologies ...
N is for Network: New Tools for Mapping Organizational Change
(2010)
Understanding network dynamics is important for underrepresented minorities and women in
technological organizations, who can easily spend their entire careers on the periphery, far away from
the flow of information ...
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. ...
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 ...
The Effect of Respect, Trust, and Fear in Adversarial Stakeholder Relationships: A Case Study on Water Commodification and Stakeholder Engagement
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)
Academic discussion around stakeholder engagement has been focused on the attributes of the various stakeholders rather than on the relationship between the stakeholders. This paper examines the role that intangible variables ...
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 ...
Trends in Scholarly Use of Online Social Media
(Position paper presented at the Workshop on Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaboration, the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 4-7, 2011, Kauai, HI, USA., 2011-01-04)
Cinema during the first two decades of the Soviet Union: how censorship of the arts inhibits the dissemination of information
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)
This paper examines the increased censorship that film experienced during the inaugural decades of the Soviet Union. Through an overview of the different genres and trends of Soviet cinema during this time, I draw parallels ...
Application of Knowledge Management for Sustainable Development in Institutions of Higher Education
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)
Campus sustainability is an increasingly popular notion for universities around the world in light of increasingly serious global environmental problems. Yet the very concept of “sustainability” itself is a complex, or ...