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Cette étude comparative analyse les conventions collectives et les règlements qui régissent les bibliothécaires des universités faisant partie du regroupement des grandes universités de recherche du Canada, le U15. Elle identifie sept composantes du modèle du statut universitaire qui sont recommandées dans les lignes directrices des organisations nationales au Canada, et analysent chacune d’elles. L’objectif de l’étude est de comparer les rôles, droits et responsabilités des bibliothécaires membres du U15, dont l’Université Laval fait partie. Les résultats de l’analyse font ressortir des similitudes entre les rôles et fonctions des bibliothécaires de l’Université Laval et les autres membres du regroupement U15, et montrent aussi des disparités concernant leurs droits et conditions de travail. Cette situation soulève une question d’équité entre les bibliothécaires universitaires au Canada.

Le 24 septembre 2013, la Bibliothèque de l’Université Laval (BUL) lançait le projet pilote de mise en valeur des nouveautés en format électronique sur Pinterest pour la Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’alimentation (FSAA). Pinterest, un « tableau d’affichage » virtuel, permet d’organiser et de partager des images, liées à des URL, sur différents sujets. Grâce à son interface conviviale et visuellement attrayante, Pinterest compte, en 2015, 72,8 millions d’utilisateurs, le Canada figurant au deuxième rang quant au nombre d’utilisateurs, après les États-Unis. Plusieurs bibliothèques et établissements scolaires utilisent maintenant Pinterest pour donner une meilleure visibilité à leurs services et à leurs collections. La BUL est la première bibliothèque universitaire francophone au Canada à utiliser le réseau social Pinterest pour la promotion de sa collection et de ses services. Cet outil permet de mettre en valeur la collection de la Bibliothèque et donne aux usagers la possibilité de partager du contenu. Cet article se penche sur la façon dont l’outil Pinterest a été utilisé à la BUL. Dans un premier temps, les objectifs, le public ciblé et leur contexte seront exposés. Le fonctionnement des statistiques d’utilisation de Pinterest, avec l’outil Pinterest Analytics, sera analysé ainsi que leur utilisation dans le contexte de ce projet. L’article vise également à partager avec la communauté des professionnels de l’information les pratiques appliquées à la mise en place de ce projet. On September 24, 2013 Laval University Library launched a pilot project to promote newly acquired eBooks for the Faculty of Food and Agriculture using Pinterest. Pinterest is an online pinboard that allows organizing and sharing images, linked to a URL, about different subjects. It’s user friendly and visually attractive interface reached, in 2015, 72,8 million users. Canada is the second country for its number of users after the U.S. Many libraries and educational institutions are using Pinterest to provide more visibility to their services and collections. Laval University Library is the first French speaking university in Canada using Pinterest as a tool to promote their collection and services. Pinterest allows showcasing the library collection and enable users to share its content. This article examines how Pinterest was used at the Laval University Library. First, the objectives, the targeted audience, and their context are presented Second, this article examines how Pinterest analytics works and how it was used for this project. Finally, the aim is to share with the community of information professionals the practices applied in the development and implementation of this project.

Abstract Numerous research methodologies have been used to examine food environments. Existing reviews synthesizing food environment measures have examined a limited number of domains or settings and none have specifically targeted Canada. This rapid review aimed to 1) map research methodologies and measures that have been used to assess food environments; 2) examine what food environment dimensions and equity related-factors have been assessed; and 3) identify research gaps and priorities to guide future research. A systematic search of primary articles evaluating the Canadian food environment in a real-world setting was conducted. Publications in English or French published in peer-reviewed journals between January 1 2010 and June 17 2021 and indexed in Web of Science, CAB Abstracts and Ovid MEDLINE were considered. The search strategy adapted an internationally-adopted food environment monitoring framework covering 7 domains (Food Marketing; Labelling; Prices; Provision; Composition; Retail; and Trade and Investment). The final sample included 220 articles. Overall, Trade and Investment (1%, n = 2), Labelling (7%, n = 15) and, to a lesser extent, Prices (14%, n = 30) were the least studied domains in Canada. Among Provision articles, healthcare (2%, n = 1) settings were underrepresented compared to school (67%, n = 28) and recreation and sport (24%, n = 10) settings, as was the food service industry (14%, n = 6) compared to grocery stores (86%, n = 36) in the Composition domain. The study identified a vast selection of measures employed in Canada overall and within single domains. Equity-related factors were only examined in half of articles (n = 108), mostly related to Retail (n = 81). A number of gaps remain that prevent a holistic and systems-level analysis of food environments in Canada. As Canada continues to implement policies to improve the quality of food environments in order to improve dietary patterns, targeted research to address identified gaps and harmonize methods across studies will help evaluate policy impact over time.

Background: There is a significant lack of consistency used to determine the scientific validity of nutrigenetic research. The aims of this study were to examine existing frameworks used for determining scientific validity in nutrition and/or genetics and to determine which framework would be most appropriate to evaluate scientific validity in nutrigenetics in the future.Methods: A systematic review (PROSPERO registration: CRD42021261948) was conducted up until July 2021 using Medline, Embase, and Web of Science, with articles screened in duplicate. Gray literature searches were also conducted (June-July 2021), and reference lists of two relevant review articles were screened. Included articles provided the complete methods for a framework that has been used to evaluate scientific validity in nutrition and/or genetics. Articles were excluded if they provided a framework for evaluating health services/systems more broadly. Citing articles of the included articles were then screened in Google Scholar to determine if the framework had been used in nutrition or genetics, or both; frameworks that had not were excluded. Summary tables were piloted in duplicate and revised accordingly prior to synthesizing all included articles. Frameworks were critically appraised for their applicability to nutrigenetic scientific validity assessment using a predetermined categorization matrix, which included key factors deemed important by an expert panel for assessing scientific validity in nutrigenetics.Results: Upon screening 3,931 articles, a total of 49 articles representing 41 total frameworks, were included in the final analysis (19 used in genetics, 9 used in nutrition, and 13 used in both). Factors deemed important for evaluating nutrigenetic evidence related to study design and quality, generalizability, directness, consistency, precision, confounding, effect size, biological plausibility, publication/funding bias, allele and nutrient dose-response, and summary levels of evidence. Frameworks varied in the components of their scientific validity assessment, with most assessing study quality. Consideration of biological plausibility was more common in frameworks used in genetics. Dose-response effects were rarely considered. Two included frameworks incorporated all but one predetermined key factor important for nutrigenetic scientific validity assessment.Discussion/Conclusions: A single existing framework was highlighted as optimal for the rigorous evaluation of scientific validity in nutritional genomics, and minor modifications are proposed to strengthen it further.Systematic Review Registration:https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=261948, PROSPERO [CRD42021261948].