Browsing Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management (DJIM) by Title

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  • Perceptions of Privacy and the Consequences of Apathy: Biometrics in the 21st Century 

    van den Hoogen, Suzanne (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 

    Hutton, Greg (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 

    Smith, Nathaniel (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 

    Woroniak, Monique (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 

    Penney, Jordan (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 

    MacFadyen, Heather (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 

    Johnson, Katherine (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 

    Dickinson, Kelly; Boyd, Bryanna; Gunningham, Regan (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 

    Aker, Jana; Howard, Brett; Reid, Mike (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 

    Hartford, Kevin (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 

    Blanca Cisneros Linares, Paola (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? 

    Lay, Kaitlan (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 ...

  • Social Tagging as a Knowledge Organization and Resource Discovery Tool 

    Allam, Hesham (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 

    Illsley, Robin (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 

    Burke, David (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 ...

  • Stillborn: Regulated midwifery in Nova Scotia 

    Taylor, Brett (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 ...

  • Submit or Resist: Google, is There a Third Way? 

    Hicks, Deborah (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 

    Lay, Kaitlan (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 ...

  • Taking The Game Out Of Gamification 

    Chorney, Alan Ivan (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 

    Allan, Kenneth (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.