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The purpose of the "Review of E-Learning in Canada", conducted by Abrami and associates (which is referred to as "the team"), was to provide evidence and gaps on the topic of e-learning, and based on this data provide promising directions for e-learning. Funded by the Canadian Council on Learning, the stated objectives of the review were to: 1) identify and verify through research the most effective practices and procedures to promote learning; 2) identify major gaps in knowledge and understanding of e-learning; and 3) identify the most promising lines of inquiry for addressing those gaps. The review covers the literature from 2000 forward with an attempt to focus on Canadian literature, in both official languages. Using an Argument Catalogue codebook a number of classes were identified by the researchers upon which the review was framed. The documents were also coded to provide data on outcomes of the e-learning research from the following perspectives: general public opinion, practitioner literature, policy documents, scholarly reviews, and primary Canadian research. Did the team achieve their objectives? Do their outcomes provide promising directions for e-learning? This commentary will begin by deconstructing the activities of this review and conclude with comments on how well the objectives of this review were met.

The last 5 years have heralded a number of important changes to virtual libraries in academic and public settings. Despite this continual effort to improve library catalogs and websites, the fundamentals of these online spaces remain relatively unchanged. Digital collections are within reach of many libraries, yet they remain difficult to integrate. Social media is slowly making its way into online library spaces, but new opportunities to integrate with online communities remain limited. This article will examine factors that have influenced how the library's virtual space has evolved and suggest some avenues for future development and direction. Two initiatives from public and academic libraries will be used to illustrate how new technologies have made it possible for Yellowhead Regional Library (YRL) in Alberta, Canada, to develop a discovery platform for the iPad. The same technologies will help music students at Alberta's Grant MacEwan University, where the author serves as music and performing arts librarian, to discover hard-to-find music materials.

Background: Using the term “cultural diversity” as an analytical framework and normative guideline to assess cultural flows, this article analyzes the catalogs of major platforms for subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) in Mexico and Canada. Analysis: This study systematized the catalogs’ content titles to produce statistics on country of origin as indicators of “supply diversity.” Conclusions and implications: The results reveal that (1) content from the United States and Europe predominates; (2) tech platforms offer a higher degree of international content (“external diversity”) than platforms from traditional Hollywood studios and local companies; and (3) for most platforms, local content is scarce, which could indicate lower “internal diversity.” [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corporate annual reports provide a snapshot of a company's operations and financial status. Reviewing and comparing years of annual reports can provide a rich history of knowledge on a corporation. Preserving, storing, and digitizing Canadian annual reports has been a mission of the C.B. "Bud" Johnston Library in London, Ontario, Canada. In late 2019 when Western Libraries migrated to a new library services platform, Alma, there was a new opportunity to catalog and provide access to the digitized annual reports collection. This article describes a decade long plan to digitize the print collection by library staff and a subsequent project to provide online access to the digitized content. Included is a discussion of cataloging methods, staffing, training, inventory control, and hosting solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an examination of emotional experiences, particularly how they are situated in the readers’ advisory (RA) literature and the literatures from a variety of outside disciplines in order to create taxonomies of affect from this context.Design/methodology/approach The approach of this study is twofold. First, this work reviews the literature on affect in Library and Information Science (LIS) and ancillary disciplines in order to understand the definition of affect. Second, using extant taxonomies and resources noted from the literature review, taxonomies are created for three aspects of affect: emotions, tones, and associations.Findings This paper contextualises and defines affect for the LIS discipline. Further, a result of the work is the creation of three taxonomies through an RA lens by which affective experiences can be classified. The resulting three taxonomies focus on emotion, tone, and associations.Practical implications The taxonomies of emotion, tone, and associations can be applied to the practical work of bibliographic description, helping to expand access and organisation through an affective lens. These taxonomies of affect could be used by readers’ advisors to help readers describe their desired reading experiences. As the taxonomies have been constructed from an RA perspective, and can be applied to the RA literature, they could expand the understanding of RA theory, especially that of appeal.Originality/value This study furthers the exploration of affect in LIS and provides tangible taxonomies of affect for the LIS discipline in an RA context, which have not been previously produced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Facsimiles of Dante's Commedia are a useful resource for researchers interested in the poem's transmission and reception. Examination of a facsimile may serve as a complement to examination of the original ms, and in certain circumstances may even provide an adequate substitute. This descriptive catalogue identifies the twelve ms of the Commedia of which facsimiles can be found in Canadian libraries. It provides details about each ms and the facsimile that reproduces it, including: the date and location of the original ms; the names of the sponsor, scribe, and illustrator; the extent of the text of the Commedia that it preserves; other texts that it preserves; the arrangement and decoration of the text; any digital versions that are available; the Canadian libraries that own a copy of the facsimile; and the nature of the facsimile's reproduction of the original ms, especially when the facsimile fails to reproduce the original accurately. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The earthquake recurrence time distribution in a given space-time window is being studied, using earthquake catalogues from different seismic regions (Southern California, Canada, and Central Asia). The quality of the available catalogues, taking into account the completeness of the magnitude, is examined. Based on the analysis of the catalogues, it was determined that the probability densities of the earthquake recurrence times can be described by a universal gamma distribution, in which the time is normalized with the mean rate of occurrence. The results show a deviation from the gamma distribution at the short interevent times, suggesting the existence of clustering. This holds from worldwide to local scales and for quite different tectonic environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of RACAR: Canadian Art Review / Revue d'art Canadienne is the property of Universities Art Association of Canada / Association d'Art des Universites du Canada and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The article provides information the European etchings of Clarence Gagnon. It gives details about the influences behind the creation of his etchings which were reflective of his passion for art. In 1981, his works were exhibited courtesy of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria which marked the centenary of his birth. His works from Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Canada were shown and each of Gagnon's work was reproduced in a catalog by Ian Thom. Thom's catalog was used as basis to examine Gagnon's life as an etcher.

The article provides information about the International Exhibition of Modern Art and the measures that it undertook leading to its presentation held from April 1-24, 1927 and featured by the Art Gallery of Toronto. The article gives details regarding the influence of Lawren Harris, a Canadian artist who upheld the importance of Candian modern art and its promotion. Aiming to expose art, Harris greatly contributed to the rectifications to the exhibition's catalogue which garnered critical comments.

The article focuses on the 2011 Health Bridging General and Specialist Care Project in Manitoba, which is funded by Health Canada and coordinated by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA). It says that the project aims to create an evidence-informed toolkit, which can be used by physicians to develop systems that will help to make appropriate referrals. Moreover, the project will meet several objectives which include raising awareness of the utility of the specialist services' catalogues.

Reports on the features added to the on-line literature database of the Federal Office and Research Centre for Forests in Canada. Expansion of web links; Selection of catalogues offered to the users; Addition of access to forestry publications.

The article reports that the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) has announced the launch of a project to catalog the plants of North America. The Flora of North America (FNA) project will provide full descriptions and range distributions for the plants of the United States, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon. The MBG serves as the organizational center. Its editorial committee members are stationed throughout the United States and Canada. FNA will be available both as a publication and computerized data base.

Searches of the OCLC data base revealed that 65% of a Canadian special library's recent acquisitions had already been cataloged. This "find rate" compares favorably with statistics available from similar libraries in the United States, and suggests that technical information centers and special libraries throughout North America could benefit considerably from OCLC participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the availability of resources related to the use of films in teaching. Educational consultant C. R. Crakes of DeVry Corp. has offered suggestions for organizing an audio-visual teaching aids department in the Number 3 issue of the "DeVry School Service Bulletin." Two catalogues of films of interest have been published, including one from the Canadian National Film Board. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc. has announced a number of one-reel classroom sound films.

Announces the availability of the New Brunswick Museum catalog of paleontological specimens in Canada. Oldest natural science collections; Internet version of database.

Reports that a catalog of audiotapes from previous King's College conferences is available from John Morgan. Topics included in the tapes.

This section offers news briefs about Canadian folk music in 1995, including the availability of the Canadian Society of Traditional Music's (CSTM) 1994 catalogue and circulation of a songsheet composed by members of the Front's North Hill Community Action Team.