... insight into issues of library practice. Design/methodology/approach This case study employed qualitative thematic analysis to analyze 406 publicly available letters written by community members in support or opposition of DQST programming offered at the Okanagan Regional Library in Canada in 2019...

... a comparative case study of the former East Germany (GDR) and contemporary Canada to illuminate this significance. Although vastly different circumstances and contexts, there are/would be, perhaps unexpectedly, documentary parallels between how the GDR was abolished and absorbed into its western neighbour...

...Nadia Caidi; Saadia Muzaffar; Elizabeth Kalbfleisch Purpose This pan-Canadian study examines the information practices of STEM-trained immigrant women to Canada as they navigate workfinding and workplace integration. Our study focuses on a population of highly skilled immigrant women from across...

...Danielle Allard The purpose of this paper is to identify and map the shifting relationship between the settlement process and the information practices of newcomers from the Philippines as they migrate and settle in Canada. This research employs two semi-structured in-depth interviews...

...Keren Dali Drawing on the survey of Spanish-speaking immigrant and migrant readers in Canada and the US, this study pursues three goals: (1) examine the image of the library held by these readers and trace the change of this image after the international migration; (2) use the study findings...

... glimpse into the ISU patterns of a previously unexamined population and context, those who live minimalist lifestyles in a remote and rural location. Canada Environmental scanning Visual methods Information equity Information poverty Information resilience Minimalism Naturalistic methods...

... were analyzed. There was no discernible chronological pattern. Most concept maps were created by authors who were professors from the USA, Germany, France, or Canada. Roughly half were judged to contain semiotic content. Peirceian semiotics predominated, and tended to convey greater granularity...

... library planning documents produced by the Government of Ontario, Canada from the 1950s. Findings An interpretation of the evolution of the identity of the library user from patron to customer to information producer‐consumer is proposed at the intersection of the neoliberal state's austerity...

... in Canada. Participants answered a survey that used allocation games and situational vignettes to measure social value orientation, propensity to share knowledge, and perception of cost and benefit. Findings The results suggest that personal preferences about the distribution of sharing outcomes...

...Tiffany Veinot Purpose This paper aims to describe the personal information and help networks of people with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) in rural Canada, and to present a research‐based model of how and why these networks developed. This model seeks to consider the roles of PHAs, their family members/friends...

... Women Crafts Public libraries Communities Canada We will focus on the ways that a semi‐private space created by a group of public library users becomes a discourse community and a site for information practices, and on the role of HIB in contributing to the caring atmosphere so valued...

...Dorothy J. Comins Purpose This article aims to look into the joint efforts of libraries in the USA and Canada to replace the books that were destroyed or damaged during the war. Design/methodology/approach A campaign was launched in 1943 that brought together 19 library associations. Regular...