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21st Annual Research Forum (2023)

Concordia University's 21st Library Research Forum was a two-day hybrid event that took place virtually on Zoom on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, and in person at Concordia University’s Loyola Campus on Wednesday, April 26, 2023.

Program

Presentations

April 25, 2023 - Online

Policy Recommendations from the CARL funded study entitled Margins: Lessons learned from the lived experiences of marginalized graduate students navigating the academy during the COVID-19 pandemic, Maha Kumaran (principal investigator), Cecile Farnum, Lisa Levesque, Aditi Gupta, Darcia Roache.

Promising practices for cultivating diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in frontline reference services, Emilia Marcyk, Sharon Ladenson.

Software selection Policies: Do they exist? Mona Elayyan, Joshua Chalifour.

Researching Research Support, Emily K. Cook, Kayla Monaghan.

Arsenic and the Book Trade: A Toxic Relationship, Kim Bell, Robin Canham.

Beyond the academic paper: Turning research into advocacy, Stephanie Savage, Jennifer Zerkee.

“Use Funnier Memes Please”: Assessing Instructional Video Tutorials using UX and Participatory Design, Becca Greer, Tina Lin.

If At First You Don't Succeed Tri-Tri-Again? Assessing the Impact of the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications, Hannah Steeves

AskAway Chat Reference During COVID-19: Research Findings, Barbara Sobol, Aditi Gupta, Aline Goncalves, Patricia L. Foster

Closing remarks, Pat Riva

April 26, 2023 - In person

Keynote address - Champions of Accessibility: A Call to Action for LIS Practitioners, Victoria Owen.

Channeling Negative to Positive: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Uncover EDI Learning Stories, Megan Fitzgibbons, Chloe Lei.

Who is (not) counted? Ethno-racial and Indigenous identities in the Census of Canada, 1871-2021, Kevin Manuel, Rosa Orlandini.

The Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership: Bringing a Data Treasure Chest to Light, Alex Guindon.

Domaine public canadien : L’impact de la loi C-19 sur la visibilité des autrices et des créatrices, Marie D. Martel

Factoring into Impact: Librarian involvement on knowledge synthesis projects and relationship to journal impact factor, Krista Alexander, Katharine Hall.

Acquiring Lawyers' Papers: Why Bother?, Dr. Jean Dryden.

Certificates of Presence: Authorial Portraits and the Orientalist Travelogue, Stéphanie Hornstein.

Closing remarks, Pat Riva.