File-Naming and Organization Worksheet

The File-Naming and Organization Worksheet is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC-BY 4.0) and has been adapted from “Naming and Organizing your Files and Folders” (CC-BY 4.0) by MIT Libraries Data Management Services and “File Naming Convention Worksheet” (CC-BY 4.0) by Kristin A. Briney.This is a worksheet designed to assist researchers with file-naming and organization of folders as a part of their data documentation practices. It includes recommendations for developing systematic file-naming conventions

Fiction & Information: The Leisure Reading Experience

The objective of this study was to explore information and its function in fiction reading for leisure through the perceptions and experiences of adult readers. I used a phenomenographic approach to look for qualitative differences in experiences and understandings in order describe the collective experience of the participants and capture variations within that experience. Twenty-three participants took part in various stages of the study and of those seventeen completed participation to be included in the final analysis. Data was collected using two methods: diaries of leisure reading kept for a minimum of two weeks, and interviews. Each participant included in the final analysis completed a diary and then came in for a follow-up interview. The results of my study are in three main areas: conceptualizing information, behaviours, and outcomes. Through analysis I was able to describe differing understandings of information in general. These understandings include: information as something that makes a difference, information as coming from the senses, information as stuff that can be collected, information as the smallest pieces of data, information as learning, information as having a use, and information as something that is true. These different understandings are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but they do describe different aspects of the concept of information and contribute to the broader understanding of how readers experience and perceive information. Information in relation to fiction reading may come from the story itself or from outside of it. Participants talked about perceiving and using information in relation to fiction in ways that suggested information can exist on a continuum ranging from information as being separate from the story, to being in the story, to being a part of the story, to making up the entire story. Exploring the participants’ conceptualizations of information gave context to their experiences of information, which I placed in two main categories: behaviours and outcomes. Information from various sources is used in a variety of behaviours that are part of the reading process or related to it. Through analysis I found themes relating to these behaviours that fall into the three subcategories of behaviours: selecting/accessing behaviours, making meaning behaviours, and taking away behaviours. The discussion of behaviours is highly interrelated with that of outcomes. Outcomes of reading may be behaviours themselves, may motivate reading behaviours, or have some other effect on readers. The subcategories of outcomes I described through data analysis include: affective outcomes, educational/broadening outcomes, influential outcomes, reflective outcomes, and other outcomes. The results of my study are exploratory in nature and are intended to make a contribution to understandings of information and readers

Papers, posters, and keynote presented at the 26th Polar Libraries Colloquy, hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA 10 – 15 July 2016

Published July 2023 by the University of Alaska Anchorage, UAA/APU Consortium Library, and edited by Daria O. Carle. Copyright in individual papers is held by the contributors. A digital copy of this publication can be found at https://polarlibraries.org/colloquy-proceedings/ and in ScholarWorks, the University of Alaska’s Institutional Repository, https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/. A copy of the 2016 Colloquy program is also available at https://polarlibraries.org/colloquy-proceedings/. Further information on the Polar Libraries Colloquy, including details of membership and upcoming conferences, is available at https://polarlibraries.orgHistory of Polar Information Science / Working in Antarctica: Mapping a Changing Experience through the British Antarctic Survey / Géoindex+: A Geospatial Platform for Northern Historical and Research Data / Establishing Criteria for the Development of the “Northern Collection” at Université Laval’s Library: An Exploratory Approach / Introducing Two New Reserach Platforms: seaiceportal.de and expedition.awi.de (abstract only) / Establishing a Digital Library Service for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region / Changing Patterns of Polar Research / Mapping the Rescue of an Archive / Byrd 1933: Films from the Discovery Lecture Series / History of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library and Its Rare Books Collection / A Roadmap to Navigate the Range of Polar Libraries, Databases, and Archives Now Available Online / Mapping Change with Finna in an Arctic Research Joint Library (paper not listed in program) / Mapping Chang in a Small Library Environment: From Reading Room to Communications Center (abstract only) / The Continued Evolution of the Cold Regions Bibliography Project: Current Status of the Antarctic Bibliography and the Antarctic Journal of the United States and its Predecessors / Connect the North: The Arctic Connect Project / Languages and Dialects in the Digital Library North (abstract only) / Bridging Arctic Indigenous Knowledge with the Digital World: Sharing Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Partnership with Arctic Communities (abstract only) / The Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability (abstract and poster

Narratives of Fact and Fiction: Examining Studies of Information Experience and the Interpretation of Data.

This paper reports on an ongoing pilot study of creative engagement with fictional worlds in order to explore potential contributions of narrative methods and data to the investigation of information behaviour and experience in LIS. A narrative framework can be used to examine the individual, social, and material aspects of information experiences situated in time and space. Such a framework has the potential to contribute detailed understandings of the nature of the experience of information and fiction, and of information experience more generally, to the body of literature on information experience in LIS.Cet article rend compte d'une étude pilote en cours sur l'engagement créatif avec des mondes fictifs afin d'explorer les contributions potentielles des méthodes narratives et des données à l'investigation du comportement et de l'expérience informationnelles dans les sciences de l’information et la bibliothéconomie (SIB). Un cadre narratif peut être utilisé pour examiner les aspects individuels, sociaux et matériels des expériences informationnelles situées dans le temps et l'espace. Ce cadre peut contribuer à la compréhension détaillée de la nature de l'expérience informationnelle et de la fiction, et de l'expérience informationnelle en général, ainsi qu’à l'ensemble de la littérature sur l'expérience de l'information dans les SIB.</jats:p

Aklavik from the air

This image shows Aklavik, taken from an aircraft during landing. The cemetery is in the centre of the photograph

File-naming Convention and Folder Organization Readme Template

This is a template for a plain text readme file. It is intended as a tool for research data management to describe file-naming conventions and folder organization. The readme should be stored in the top level folder of the structure it describes

Aklavik from the air

Photo taken May 27, 2017, when the Digital Library North team flew to Aklavik to demonstrate the digital library to local residents

Muktuk

Muktuk is the edible part of the whale skin, the layer between the skin and the blubber. It contains high levels of vitamins C and D. Traditionally it is eaten raw