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  Data Management Planning: Informing Research Data Management in Academic Libraries Today and the Skills Needed for Future Librarians 

  Grynoch, T., Smit, M. and Stevenson, S. E. (2016). Data Management Planning: Informing Research Data Management in Academic Libraries Today and the Skills Needed for Future Librarians. Proceedings of the 37th International Association of University Libraries (IATUL) Conference. International Association of University Libraries. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/82661

  Academic libraries in Canada are taking the lead in research data management (RDM) as they strive to assist researchers in addressing Canada's move to join the global trend of adding data dissemination and preservation ...
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  Quality is more important than quantity: Social presence and workplace ergonomics control predict perceived remote work performance 

  Conrad, C., Klesel, M., Oschinsky, F., Mayhew, K., O’Neil, K., and Usai, F. (2023). It’s not the number of meetings: Social presence and workplace control predict perceived remote work performance. Proceedings of the 2023 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

  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 ...
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  Measuring Mind Wandering During Online Lectures Assessed With EEG 

  Conrad, C., & Newman, A. (2021). Measuring mind wandering during online lectures assessed with EEG. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 455. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.697532

  Mind wandering can inhibit learning in multimedia classrooms, such as when watching online lectures. One explanation for this effect is that periods of mind wandering cause learners’ attention to be redirected from the ...
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  Do emotions influence safe browsing? Toward an electroencephalography marker of affective responses to cybersecurity notifications 

  Conrad, C. D., Aziz, J. R., Henneberry, J. M., & Newman, A. J. (2022). Do emotions influence safe browsing? Toward an electroencephalography marker of affective responses to cybersecurity notifications. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16.

  Cybersecurity notifications play an important role in encouraging users to use computers safely. Emotional reactions to such notifications are known to positively influence users’ adherence to these notifications, though ...
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  University life has gone digital: influences of institutional mobile social network use during the COVID-19 emergency 

  Conrad, C., Moylan, R. and O. Diaz, G. (2022). University life has gone digital: Influences of institutional mobile social network use during the Covid-19 emergency. Library Hi Tech ahead of print https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-12-2021-0458

  Purpose Many universities implemented institutional social networking apps as an alternative to in-person social experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to explore previously identified factors ...
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  Individual Perspectives on Data Sharing: Human Factors Impacting the Digital Economy 

  Digital economies rely on the exchange and sharing of data, but this type of sharing is relatively new. Any digital transformation will include a shift from data as a protected asset to data as a tool for collaboration and ...
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  Towards Mind Wandering Adaptive Online Learning and Virtual Work Experiences 

  Conrad, C. and Newman, A. J. (2022). Towards mind wandering adaptive online learning and virtual work experiences. Proceedings of the 2022 NeuroIS Retreat.

  NeuroIS researchers have become increasingly interested in the design of new types of information systems that leverage neurophysiological data. In this paper we describe the results of machine learning analysis which ...
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  Is Our Ability to Detect Errors an Indicator of Mind Wandering? An Experiment Proposal 

  Conrad, C, Klesel, M., Mayhew, K., O’Neil, K., Oschinsky F. and Usai, F. (2022). Is your ability to detect errors an indicator of mind wandering? An experiment proposal. Proceedings of the 2022 NeuroIS Retreat.

  Mind wandering could have a variety of impacts on information systems phenomena, not least long monotonous tasks. Unfortunately, mind wandering states are difficult to measure objectively. In this paper, we describe ...
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  Beyond Statistical Literacy: Open Data For Teaching, Collaboration, And Profit 

  Researchers, governments, and businesses grapple with the abundance of relevant data because consultants claim its effective use will lead to untold wealth and prosperity. To access this pot of gold, a modern university ...
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  Toward Best Practices for Unstructured Descriptions of Research Data 

  Phillips, D., & Smit, M. (2021). Toward Best Practices for Unstructured Descriptions of Research Data. In Proceedings of the 84th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), 58(1).

  Achieving the potential of widespread sharing of open research data requires that sharing data is straightforward, supported, and well-understood; and that data is discoverable by researchers. Our literature review and ...
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  An investigation of differences in sentiment from tweets related to COVID-19 between Canada and US residents 

  Gone, K. P. & Conrad, C. (2020). An investigation of differences in sentiment from tweets related to COVID-19 between Canada and US residents. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM-2020).

  Goal: This study aims to understand how individuals communicated and acknowledged to COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter. It mainly focused on identifying and demonstrating the differences in the perspective of United States and ...
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  Retail apocalypse: The case of Sears Canada Inc. 

  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 ...
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  Measuring Mind Wandering during Online Lectures Assessed with EEG 

  Mind wandering can inhibit learning in multimedia classrooms, such as when watching online lectures. One explanation for this effect is that periods of mind wandering cause learners’ attention to be redirected from the ...
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  OPACs, users, and readers’ advisory: Exploring the implication of user-generated content for readers’ advisory in Canadian public librarie 

  Pecoskie, J., Tarulli, L., & Spiteri, L. F. (2014). OPACs, users, and readers’ advisory: Exploring the implication of user-generated content for readers’ advisory in Canadian public libraries. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 52(4), 431-453

  This article examines the contribution of social discovery platforms and user-generated content (UGC) on readers’ advisory (RA) services in Canadian public libraries. Grounded Theory was used to conduct a content analysis ...
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  Illusions of a “Bond”: tagging cultural products across online platforms 

  Desrochers, N., Laplante, A., Martin, K., Quan-Haase, A., & Spiteri, L. F. (2016). Illusions of a 'Bond': Tagging cultural products across online platforms. Journal of Documentation, 72(6), 1027-1051.

  Most studies pertaining to social tagging focus on one platform or platform type, thus limiting the scope of their findings. The purpose of this paper is to explore social tagging practices across four platforms in relation ...
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  Expanding the scope of affect: Taxonomy construction for emotions, tones, and associations 

  Spiteri, L. F., & Pecoskie, J. (2018). Expanding the scope of affect: Taxonomy construction for emotions, tones, and associations. Journal of Documentation, 74(2), 383-397.

  The purpose of this paper is to provide an examination of emotional experiences, particularly how they are situated in the readers’ advisory (RA) literature and the literatures from a variety of outside disciplines in order ...
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  In the readers’ own words: How user content in the catalog can enhance readers’ advisory services 

  Spiteri, L. F., & Pecoskie, J. (2016). In the readers’ own words: How user content in the catalog can enhance readers’ advisory services. Reference and User Services Quarterly, 56(2), 91-95
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  Applying a 3-D hedonic concept of intrinsic motivation on the acceptance of social tagging tools: A theoretical model and empirical validation 

  Allam, H., Bliemel, M., Spiteri, L. F., & Blustein, J. (2019). Applying a 3-D hedonic concept of intrinsic motivation on the acceptance of social tagging tools: A theoretical model and empirical validation. International Journal of Information Management, 45: 211-222.

  Participation in and adding content to social tagging tools is important for these tools to achieve their purpose of classifying and organizing information. Users of social tagging tools are driven to participate and add ...
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  If you build it, they won’t come: What motivates employees to create and share tagged content: A theoretical model and empirical validation 

  Allam, H., Bliemel, M., Spiteri, L., Blustein, J., & Ali-Hassan, H. (2020). If you build it, they won’t come: What motivates employees to create and share tagged content: A theoretical model and empirical validation. International Journal of Information Management, 54, 1021-1048

  The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors influencing employees’ knowledge-sharing behavior on social tagging supported systems. Using the strong theoretical background of the well-known technology acceptance model ...
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  BUILDING DIGITAL CAPACITY: REPORT ON THE TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS 

  The Schools of Public Administration (SPA) and Information Management (SIM) in the Faculty of Management (FOM) at Dalhousie University, and the Canadian Digital Service (CDS) team worked together to conduct a broad-based ...

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