2021-2022

Library Research Forum

Concordia Library’s 20th Annual Research Forum was held on online on April 26 and 27, 2022. The virtual forum was open to all who registered and included presentations and posters about browsing and searching interfaces for metadata about online literary performance, image indexing and retrieval, digital preservation, archival studies, and EDI. A plenary session was held, moderated by the Library’s researcher-in-residence, Désirée Rochat in conversation with James Hudson of University of Guelph, on the topic “Racial capitalism and knowledge production in library and information science.”

The Research Forum Committee for 2022-2023 was composed of Chloe Lei (chair), Guylaine Beaudry, Susie Breier, and Megan Fitzgibbons.

Researcher-in-Residence

Concordia Library welcomed it’s 5th researcher-in-residence, Dr. Désirée Rochat, in the fall of 2021. Dr. Rochat is a community educator and transdisciplinary scholar. Guided by an integrative approach connecting historical research, community archival preservation and education, her work aims to document, theorize and transmit (hi)stories of Black communities’ activism. She develops innovative and collaborative projects bridging scholarly and community work and is involved in various initiatives for the preservation and promotion of Black community archives.

As researcher-in-residence at Concordia Library, Dr. Rochat explored strategies to improve community outreach, relations and engagement to foster the holistic development and use of Black community-related special collections. Her objectives were to examine what has been done by the Library’s Special Collections to actively encourage the acquisition and use of Black community collections as well as examine what has been done by the Library to foster community outreach, relations and engagement with Black communities inside and outside the university.

The Library’s researcher-in-residence program has as one of its goals to foster a culture of research. The program was created as part of the Library’s Strategic Plan 2016-2021, in order to promote research in the Library and the use of research by librarians. The program offers the opportunity for scholars or doctoral students to focus on an area of inquiry in a supportive and enriching environment and to interact with Concordia Library staff and resources.

Grants Awarded to Concordia Librarians

Fitzgibbons, M., & Lei, C. (2021). Concordia Library Research Grant. Uncovering academic librarians' transformative learning experiences related to equity, diversity, and inclusion using appreciative inquiry.

Lei, C., & Fitzgibbons, M. (2021). Canadian Association of Research Libraries Research in Librarianship Grant. Uncovering academic librarians' transformative learning experiences related to equity, diversity, and inclusion using appreciative inquiry.

Awards

Harris, R. (2022). Michelle Gauthier Travel Award. Art Library’s Association of North America’s MOQ.

Harris, R. & Mongeau, P. (2022). Successful applicants of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ Congress International Keynote Speaker Support Fund used for the provision of keynote honoraria at the Bibliographical Society of Canada’s 2022 conference.

Mills, A., Rochat, D., & High, S. 2021 recipient of the Association of Canadian Archivists' W. Kaye Lamb Prize for the peer reviewed Archivaria article Telling Stories from Montreal’s Negro Community Centre Fonds: The Archives as Community-Engaged Classroom.

Publications and Scholarly Presentations by Members of the Concordia Library Team

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Bhandari, P. M., Levis, B., Neupane, D., Patten, S. B., Shrier, I., Thombs, B. D., Benedetti, A., & the DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) EPDS Collaboration (Kloda, L. A.). (2021). Data-driven methods distort optimal cutoffs and accuracy estimates of depression screening tools: A simulation study using individual participant data. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 137, 137-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.03.031

Dennie, D., & Breier, S. (2021). 'Babe... you're a bit of a know it all': Student love and breakup letters to a library research skills tutorial. Journal of Information Literacy, 15(3), 41-55. https://doi.org/10.11645/15.3.2887

Giffin, M. (2022). A holistic assessment of Spanish gift books. Library Resources & Technical Services, 66(1), 16-30. https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.66n1.16

Negeri, Z. F., Levis, B., Sun, Y., He, C., Krishnan, A., … Kloda, L. A., …Thombs, B. D. (2021). Accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 for screening to detect major depression: Updated systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis. BMJ, 374, n2183. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2183

Non-Peer Reviewed Articles

Harris, R., Catton, F., Hammerman, S., Warren, P., & Wirtz, M. (2022, March 21). Advocacy & Public Policy Committee Special News Alert: Statement Against White Appropriation of Black, Indigenous & People of Color's Labor. APPC News Alerts. https://www.arlisna.org/news/advocacy-and-public-policy-committee-special-news-alert##

Riva, P. (2021). The National Bibliographic Register, putting national bibliographies in context. IFLA Metadata Newsletter, 7(1), 5–12. https://cdn.ifla.org/wp-content/uploads/files/assets/classification-and-indexing/newsletters/ifla_metadata_newsletter_june_2021_updated.pdf

Riva, P. (2021). National Bibliographies revealed in the National Bibliographic Register. IFLA Metadata Newsletter, 7(2), 6–17. https://repository.ifla.org/handle/123456789/1772

Taye, D., & Harris, R. (2021, November 5). "George," Who? Take a Moment for Representation: An Anti-Racism Series. https://library.concordia.ca/about/exhibitions/take-a-moment/george-who.php

Proceedings

Riva, P. (2022). The multilingual challenge in bibliographic description and access. Proceedings of the International Conference Bibliographic Control in the Digital Ecosystem, special issue of JLIS.it, 13(1), 86–98. https://doi.org/10.4403/jlis.it-12737

Presentations

Bermès, E., Boucher, E., Dubuc, C., Gamache, E., Roy, S., & Tanguay, A. (2021, November 4). Discussion thématique : comment transformer et réinventer son milieu pour mieux répondre aux besoins? Round table at the Congrès des profesionnel-le-s de l’information, Montréal.

Claus, H., Fernández, D. Rochat, D., Harris, R. & Mongeau, P. (2022, May). Keynote Panel: Finding Another Country in the Stacks: Decentering Whiteness Within Special Collections, Bibliography and Book History. Plenary session at the Bibliographical Society of Canada’s 2022 conference

Dennie, D. (2022, May 27). Your data's showing: Implementing the new Tri-Agency research data management policy. Presentation at Open Science @ Concordia, Montréal, Canada. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/990621/

Fitzgibbons, M. (2022, January 28). Concept mapping for designing, engaging, and collaborating. Presentation at the Concordia Digital Skill-Share Unconference, Online.

Gamache, É. (2021, November 4). Dysfonctionnements en bibliothèques : observations et pistes de solutions. Presentation at theCongrès des profesionnel-le-s de l’information, Montréal.

Giffin, M. (2021, November). Mirando el caballo regalado: an assessment of Spanish gift books. Presentation at the Charleston Library Conference, Charleston, South Carolina.

Harris, R. (2021, October 29). Accountable versus Safe Spaces: A Librarian’s Perspective. Presentation at Beyond Inclusion: A Graduate Dialogue on Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Research, Global Emergent Media Lab (GEM Lab).

Harris, R. (2022, April). Expanding research possibilities for visual-information seekers with a renewable workaround. Presentation at the Concordia Library Research Forum, Online.

Harris, R. (2022, May 17). Together and Apart Over Time: Text and Image in the Coloured Fairy Books series. Presentation at At the Threshold: Looking Forward, Looking Back. Bibliographical Society of Canada, Online.

Harris, R., & Beaudoin, J. E. (2022, April 8). Beyond the Textual: Visual Information Systems that Help and Hinder. Presentation at Past, Present, Future: Aspiring to New Heights, ARLIS.NA, 50th Anniversary Conference, Chicago.

Hudson, D., & Rochat, D. (2022, April). Racial capitalism and knowledge production in LIS: A conversation with David James Hudson, moderated by Désirée Rochat. Plenary session at the Concordia Library Research Forum, Online. https://youtu.be/asUAz0NC4ts (presentation)

Ishimura, Y., & Fitzgibbons, M. (2022). Information literacy transformations: Using a web-based tool to facilitate and capture collaborative learning in a semester-long course [presentation]. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, virtual and Athens, Greece.

Ivan, L. (2022, May 13). Building an emergency virtual reference service during lockdown: A case study on service design and staff support through crisis [Conference session]. Through the Looking Glass/À travers le miroir, ABQLA, Montreal, Canada.

Koskas, M., & Riva, P. (2021, September 30). A perspective on national bibliographies from the IFLA Bibliography Section. [Invited presentation]. Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) Bibliographical Data Working Group workshop National Bibliographies and Catalogs: Curation and Research, (online). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5552361 (slides)

Lake, M., Campbell, G., & McGoveran, C. (2021, April 27). Disappearing Deposits: Investigating the Retention of Canadian Federal Government Depository Publications at CARL Libraries. Presentation at Concordia University Library's 19th Annual Research Forum, Online.

Mills, A. (2021, June). Community participation in the archive: It's not just about better description. Paper presented at the Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference, Home Improvement: Building Archives Through Change.

Neugebauer, T., Berrizbeitia, F., Joseph, B., Bustamante, A., Lu, E., Gandham, S., & Camlot, J. (2022, April). The development of a browse and search interface for metadata about online literary performance in Canada during the pandemic period. Presentation at the Concordia Library Research Forum. Online. https://library.concordia.ca/about/staff/forum/files/2022/2022_Neugebauer.pdf (slides); https://youtu.be/aZcB2bPaDu8 (presentation)

Riva. P. (2021, September 16-17). Insights from IFLA’s Register of National Bibliographies. [Conference presentation]. National Libraries Now 2021 Digital Conference: International Perspectives on Library Curation. https://nln2021conference.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/panel-4_riva.docx.pdf (text) https://youtu.be/67IMH2Df9Eg (recording)

Riva. P. (2021, October 27-29). IFLA LRM, the conceptual base for RDA. [Conference presentation]. 4to Coloquio sobre RDA en América Latina y el Caribe: Innovaciones en la RDA e implicancias para su implementación en las bibliotecas de América Latina y el Caribe, Lima, Peru (online).

Riva. P. (2021, November 10). NBR, National Bibliographic Register : Registro delle Bibliografie nazionali dell’IFLA. [Invited guest lecture]. II Settimana della Ricerca di Eccellenza del Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo (SAGAS), Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy (online).

Smith, C. F. (2021, October). From an erupting geyser to a steady stream: a case study in how to implement a full-scale streaming media course reserves service on the turn of a dime (and during a pandemic, to boot!). Presented at Access 2021, Online. https://accessconference.ca/past-conferences/2021-online/program/

Smith, C.F. (2022, May). Damming up the Stream & Cooling Down the Waters: Will locked away streaming media content have a chilling effect on academia? Presented at the Canadian Library Video Conference

Smith, C.F. (2022, March). Reading the Comments: Streamlining Technical Services Workflows by leveraging Microsoft 365’s modern Commenting. Presented at Core Interest Group Week 2022, Online. https://www.ala.org/core/continuing-education/interest-group-week

Smith, C.F. (2022, January). Tag me!: Leveraging Microsoft 365’s tagging and assigning functions to manage projects across units. Presented at the Concordia Digital Skill-Share Unconference, Online.

Poster

Berrizbeitia, F. (2022, April). An interactive AI-based approach to semantic annotations for the SpokenWeb archive. Poster at the Concordia Library Research Forum, Online. https://library.concordia.ca/about/staff/forum/files/2022/2022_Berrizbeitia.png

Reports

Smith, C. F. (Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee). (2021). Cataloguing Code of Ethics. https://sites.google.com/view/cataloging-ethics/