Academic literature on the topic 'Concordia University. Libraries'

Introduction – This article describes the level of bioinformatics services offered by academic libraries across Canada. It also assesses faculty use of bioinformatics resources and the need for library bioinformatics services at one academic institution, Concordia University. Methods – To assess the level of bioinformatics services at Canadian universities, a survey was sent to life and health sciences librarians at English-speaking Canadian universities comparable to Concordia University. To assess faculty use of bioinformatics and the need for bioinformatics instruction, another survey was sent to faculty of the Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics at Concordia University. Results – Approximately one-quarter of librarians surveyed provided services such as online research guides for bioinformatics resources, workshops, or online tutorials. Individual consultations with students were infrequent. The majority of the libraries where bioinformatics services were offered were at universities with a medical school. The faculty survey indicated that Concordia Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics researchers are heavy users of bibliographic and bioinformatics databases, using at least one of these databases on a daily basis. Most faculty members learned how to use bioinformatics databases on their own and regularly teach the use of these databases to their students or colleagues. Nevertheless, faculty at Concordia seem to be open to some form of collaboration with the library for the provision of bioinformatics services. Discussion – Although librarians can participate in the teaching of bioinformatics database skills, library services in bioinformatics at Canadian university libraries are still in the embryonic phase. Librarians should be trained in the use of these databases to increase their confidence and expertise and to help them market these skills to faculty and students.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Studies and the broader discipline of sexuality studies are multidisciplinary fields that require a different approach to collection development in academic libraries. Many library collections budgets reflect the traditional divisions by academic department, and multidisciplinary fields often transcend these conventional boundaries. The concept of one selector for one department, while being a well-established and practical approach to collection building, is limited in breadth and scope and is not necessarily suitable for multidisciplinary fields. This study uses citation analysis to assess the LGBTQ collection at Concordia University Libraries, to ascertain collection strengths and weaknesses, and to recommend collaborative collection development as a viable method of building an excellent collection in a multidisciplinary subject area.

Mark Aaron Polger is the First Year Outreach Librarian at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY), where his responsibilities include promoting library services and resources as well as providing instruction to first year students. Polger is also an Information Literacy Instructor at ASA College. His research interests include library marketing, outreach, and user experience design. He is active in LLAMA as the chair of the PR XChange Committee as well as the co-chair of the Annual PR XChange Awards Competition. Regionally, he is an active executive board member of ACRL/NY (Association of College and Research Libraries, Greater Metropolitan New York Area), where he serves on the planning committee of the annual symposium and co-chairs the User Experience Discussion Group. Locally, he co-chairs meetings in New York City for ACRL National’s Library Marketing and Outreach Interest Group. He is also a member of the planning committee of the annual Library Marketing and Communications Conference (LMCC). He is co-chair of the LACUNY (Library Association of the CUNY) Library Marketing and Outreach Roundtable Discussion Group.Currently, Polger is the founder and editor-in-chief of the new open-access, peer-reviewed Marketing Libraries Journal, which was launched in fall 2017.Originally from Montreal, Canada, Polger holds a BA in Sociology from Concordia University (1999), an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario (2000), an MA in Sociology from University of Waterloo (2004), and a BEd in Adult Education from Brock University (2009). He is currently a third-year PhD student in the Curriculum, Instruction, and the Science of Learning Program at SUNY University at Buffalo. He moved to New York City in 2008.The first issue of Marketing Libraries Journal was published in fall 2017. We wanted to ask Mark about his inspiration to create this new publication.—Editors

Editorial responsibilities Editors Jessica Lange, Editor-in-Chief, McGill University Jennifer Easter, Section Editor (Innovations in Practice), Centennial College Linda Ecclestone, Section Editor (Book Reviews), Lasalle Secondary School Éthel Gamache, Section Editor (French Language), Concordia University Corinne Gilroy, Layout Editor, Mount Saint Vincent University Tamara Noor, Section Editor (Features), Western University Rainer Schira, Layout Editor, Brandon University Ann Smith, Section Editor (Theory & Research), Acadia University Copyeditors Chris Landry, OCAD University Allana Mayer, OurDigitalWorld Emily Tyschenko, Guelph Public Library Lindsay McNiff, Dalhousie University Greg Nightingale, Western University Dahlal Mohr-Elzeki, McGill University Health Centre Libraries Andrea Quaiattini, McGill University Proofreaders Deborah Hemming, Acadia University Mylène Pinard, McGill University Tanya Ulmer, Internet Archive Canada (Alberta) Social Media & Web Design Graham Lavender, Web Design Coordinator, Michener Institute of Education at UHN Natalie Colaiacovo, Digital & Social Media Coordinator, Centennial College Translation Patrick Labelle, Translator, University of Ottawa

Editors Jessica Lange, Editor-in-Chief, McGill University Jennifer Easter, Section Editor (Innovations in Practice), Centennial College Linda Ecclestone, Section Editor (Book Reviews), Lasalle Secondary School Éthel Gamache, Section Editor (French Language), Concordia University Corinne Gilroy, Layout Editor, Mount St. Vincent University Allana Mayer, Section Editor (Professional Development), OurDigitalWorld Rainer Schira, Layout Editor, Brandon University Ann Smith, Section Editor (Theory & Research), Acadia University Copyeditors Chris Landry, OCAD University Allana Mayer, OurDigitalWorld Emily Tyschenko, Guelph Public Library Lindsay McNiff, Dalhousie University Greg Nightingale, Western University Dahlal Mohr-Elzeki, McGill University Health Centre Libraries Andrea Quaiattini, McGill University Proofreaders Deborah Hemming, Acadia University Mylène Pinard, McGill University Tanya Ulmer, Internet Archive Canada (Alberta) Social Media & Web Design Graham Lavender, Web Design Coordinator, Michener Institute of Education at UHN Natalie Colaiacovo, Digital & Social Media Coordinator, Centennial College Translation Patrick Labelle, Translator, University of Ottawa

Les femmes sont sous-représentées en philosophie. Dans cet article, je me demande si cette sous-représentation se répercute dans les collections monographiques des quatre bibliothèques universitaires montréalaises, anglophones et francophones, que sont l’Université Concordia, l’Université McGill, l’Université de Montréal et l’Université du Québec à Montréal. La présence des femmes philosophes dans les collections monographiques générales des universités montréalaises est ici analysée à l’aide de deux méthodologies : l’évaluation par liste et l’évaluation systématique stratifiée. Les avantages et limitations de chaque méthode sont discutés. Notamment, les différentes options des interfaces des catalogues, les différences entre les départements de philosophie desservis et les bibliothèques elles-mêmes causent des variations ne permettant pas une comparaison juste entre les collections monographiques. Comme résultats, il est tout de même possible de discerner que les femmes philosophes, à quelques exceptions près, sont sévèrement sous-représentées, comme auteures de monographies, et leurs œuvres, comme objets d’études. Selon mon échantillon, les femmes ne représentent pas le quart des auteures de monographies disponibles dans les collections étudiées. Cette recherche, exploratoire par son originalité et sa taille, révèle déjà un besoin criant de mise en valeur des femmes philosophes par leur promotion et l’acquisition de leurs œuvres et de leurs commentateurs. Des études parallèles dans le monde des sciences me permettent de croire qu’une présence accrue de femmes en philosophie participera à renverser cette situation. Women are under-represented in philosophy. In this article, I attempt to investigate if this under-representation is also present in the monograph collections of four English- and French-language academic libraries in Montreal: Concordia University, McGill University, Université de Montréal and Université du Québec à Montréal. The inclusion of women philosophers in the general monograph collections at Montreal universities is analyzed using two methodologies: evaluation by list and stratified systematic evaluation. The advantages and limitations of each method are discussed. Among others, different catalogue interface options, differences between philosophy departments served and the libraries themselves cause variations that do not allow a fair comparison between monograph collections. Results still show that women philosophers, with a few exceptions, are severely under-represented as monograph authors and their works as objects of study. Based on my sample, women represent less than one quarter of the monograph authors available in the collections that were examined. This research, which is exploratory due to its originality and scope, reveals an overwhelming need to highlight women philosophers by promoting and acquiring their works along with commentaries of these. Similar studies done in the field of science lead me to believe that an increased presence of women in philosophy will help to reverse this situation.

When the University of Alberta Library hired its first Wikimedian-in-Residence (WIR) in 2019, the team had difficulty finding detailed information about how to plan for a WIR and set up the role for success. This chapter details two Wikipedia residencies that served as a guide for the Alberta team in building their WIR project. Case studies of the University of Toronto and Concordia University in Montréal are presented alongside a case study of the University of Alberta. Each study includes details about how the role was approved and funded, how hiring decisions were made, how the WIR focused their efforts, and the impact at their institution. Together, these three examples demonstrate the variety of options for funding and hiring a WIR role and for the focus of the WIR’s work in their term. The chapter poses concrete questions for librarians considering implementing a WIR role at their institution and offers recommendations from each WIR experience as guidance in answering those questions.