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Write While You Search: Ambient Searching of a Digital Library in the Context of Writing
(2006)
We consider ideas for a tighter integration of searching a digital
library while writing a paper. A prototype system based on web
services is described which allows us to explore the design space
of ambient search tools ...
Web APIs: A Step towards Greater Mobility of User-Created Data across Social Networking Websites and Their Implications for Research in Information Behavior
(2007)
As Internet users are joining more online communities
such as Facebook and MySpace, they are also becoming
more prolific content creators. But unfortunately, the task
of managing and exchanging content between their ...
The Application of Library Outreach Strategies in Archival Settings
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2009)
Librarians and archivists in the Halifax Regional Municipality were surveyed using a series of online questionnaires in order to identify library outreach strategies that could potentially be used by archives. Participants ...
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 ...
Automated Discovery and Analysis of Social Networks from Threaded Discussions
(2008)
To gain greater insight into the operation of online social networks, we applied Natural Language
Processing (NLP) techniques to text-based communication to identify and describe underlying social
structures in online ...
Analyzing Networked Learning Texts
(2008)
Social interactions are essential in understanding the collaborative processes in networked learning
environments. Although individuals may learn by retrieving information from online archives,
dictionaries and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...