library services report for october 2015
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Library ServicesOctober 2015
Theme: Resource based learning, accelerate student learning, explore Open Education Resources, and communications
Main points
Learning day collaboration with Mount Royal University Library, October 2
APA citation and research for RSWR 1900 Personal communications for RSWR 1900 Literature review for RSWR 1900 Resources emailed to first year social work students 'One Book One Class' book for the English class Sharing circles for psychology accelerates student
learning and creates peer to peer support Indigenous studies 1911 class uses the resources and
computers Online learners support group on October 21 Open Access (OA) Week October 19 - 25, 2015
theme is 'Open for Collaboration'-Use OA textbooks Capacity development by connecting with schools,
Science Day, October 7 at the Louis Bull School How to get your work published on October 29 Recording oral histories workshop on October 31 Announcing First Nations Library Services Without
Borders Institute Gathering on April 12-15, 2016 Statistics Canada presentation on November 16
1. Learning day, October 2
Learning day brought together a community of learners from all over Maskwacis. Content was delivered in six presentations. Thirty four participants from the community became aware of the indigenous resources and finding aids available at the Provincial Archives, Samson Archives, Ermineskin Adult Literacy, and Mount Royal University Library.
Figure 1: Community of learners
Six presentations
10 am-11 am: Samson Archives and primary sources
11 am - 12: Mount Royal University Library: An observational study of how students use academic libraries and why we should care.
12-1 pm: Residential school survivor Marwin Littlechild
12 - 2 pm: Benefit of residential schools for education by Bruce Cutknife
2 - 3 pm: Introduction to Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA) finding aids by Leslie Latta 3- 4 pm: Communication tactics – handling objections by Anthony Koleoso
Summary of learning areas
10 am-11 am: Samson Archives and primary sources
Bev and Brian presented the services and residential school registers and resources available at Samson Archives. Law library and museum artifacts collection is housed at the Samson Archives. Bev spoke about the repatriation services and the legislations involved with this area.
11 am - 12: Operation Spybrary: An observational study of how students use academic libraries and why
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we should care.
The library as a place is shown to be a complex topic, with noise, need and personal preference influencing experience. Researchers will also include a discussion of an evidence based approach to evaluating the work of libraries.
Alice Swabey and Francine May are librarians at Mount Royal University. Their research interests include exploring the roles of the academic library.
12 - 2 pm: Benefit of residential schools for education by Marwin Littlechild and Bruce Cutknife
Mr. Littlechild is a residential school survivor and he shared his real story of spending 14 years in the residential schools. Mr. Cutknife presented a timeline of residential schools using photographs, data from books and stories.
2 - 3 pm: Introduction to Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA) by Leslie Latta
Leslie Latta spoke about the variety of indigenous resources cared for by the Provincial Archives, and she explained what an archives is and what happens in her job on a daily basis. She gave us a list of residential schools finding aids to use when searching for indigenous information.
3- 4 pm: Communication tactics – handling objections by Anthony Koleoso
Mr. Koleoso highlighted that probing is a good way of understanding the barriers.
View the day by clicking the following link.http://www.slideshare.net/ManishaKhetarpal/learning-day-at-the-library-2nd-oct-2015
2. APA citation basics for research studies class, October 5, 11 -11:45 am
Agenda
a. Warm-up: Read the thesis sheets posted on the wall and write an indigenous content, context or a word (Student engagement)
b. Overview of Title and Referencec. Body: Paraphrase, Summarize, Direct Quotation
(short and long)d. Observe in text citation: Author last name, Year and
Page. e. Exercise: Mark short or long quotation, paraphrase
in the thesis (Student engagement)f. Resources
Handout: APA body Postings on the blog Google it: Work by one author APA checklist, APA sample paper, APA
template (emailed to students)
Observation: Students wanted to know how to write an essay? How to write an outline? How to analyse?
3. Personal communications for research studies, October 19, 11-11:45 am
Agenda
Personal communication in APA
a. Here's the three pieces of information you will need
Respondents name (initial of first name, last name)
Two words: personal communication
The date of the communication (month day, year)
b. Example 1 and Instructions
"Maskwacis community members smudge regularly so
we need good quality matches."
(K.Crier, personal communication, October 19, 2015).
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c. Example 2: Here's an in-text citation when you've
already mentioned K. Crier's name in the sentence.
K. Crier made a point Maskwacis community members
smudge regularly so we need good quality matches.
(personal communication, October 19, 2015).
d. Personal communication note
Do not cite personal communication in the reference list.
Why? Because the data is not retrievable by someone in
a print or digital format for the sources listed under
references.
4. Mini-literature review for research studies, Oct 26
Agenda
Outline
Organizing Principles: Themes, Chronology and
Methodology
Handout: Literature review
Process
Students are to work in pairs: Read and write the
outline of the literature review from a thesis and one
quotation (2 students working together)
2 pairs to join and discuss with each other (four
students working together)
One student from each pairs to share with the group
Figure 2: Sharing circle for the literature review
5. Email communication with 1st year social work students
Once a week a research resource is emailed to all students. The information alert example is as follows.
Here below is an article listed in your RSWR 1900 (Academic Research and Writing) course outline (bibliography page).
Flemming, L. (2008). Resilience and Indigenous Spirituality: A Literature Review. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health , 6 (2).
Indigenous spirituality is a more complex phenomenon than the term spirituality alone, as generally understood, implies. Spirituality is closely bound up with culture and ways of living in Indigenous communities and requires a
more holistic or comprehensive research approach. Two conceptual frameworks could help to orient Indigenous resilience research. One is the enculturation framework. Enculturation refers to the degree of integration within a
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culture, which can be protective in social behaviour, academic achievement, alcohol abuse and cessation, substance abuse, externalizing behaviours, and depressive symptoms. Instruments for measuring enculturation generally have three components: traditional activities, cultural identification, and traditional spirituality. A second conceptual framework is cultural spiritual orientation which distinguishes between cultural spiritual orientations and tribal spiritual beliefs. Enculturation and cultural orientations are protective against alcohol abuse, suicide ideation, and suicide attempts. New tools are emerging for measuring the multidimensional nature of culturally rooted spirituality in Indigenous communities, tools that are context-specific and often the product of collaborative design processes. As the ability of researchers to measure these complex processes advances and Indigenous communities take increasing charge of their own research, it should become easier to design interventions that take advantage of the cultural/spiritual dimension of Indigenous traditions to promote individual, family, and community resilience.
http://www.pimatisiwin.com/uploads/404389036.pdf
What information would you like to post on the social work blog? http://socialworki.blogspot.ca/
6. English class: Resource based learning
Students came to pick up books for their assignment on
October 26, 2015 at 1 pm. Forty books were checked
out by students on the topics assigned by the instructor.
November 2nd the library provided the class with 30 copies of a book King Arthur for the, 'One Book One Class' reading circle.
Figure 3: Students browsing to pick a book for their class assignment
7. Accelerate student learning by hosting sharing circles for psychology
Sharing circles taught students study and note taking skills such as using flash cards, notes, foldables, read aloud, and sticky notes. The use of different parts of the text books such as glossaries in the textbook. Resources which complement the textbooks such as study guides were used to accelerate student's exam writing skills for the midterm. A psychology wall was created which included flowcharts from the study guides. Librarian got an opportunity to visit the PeSakestu healing lodge with the group on October 28.
Date Concepts coveredOctober 6 Chapter 3: Developmental psychology,
developmental level, maturation, attachment, parenting styles, types of discipline, assimilation, accommodation, moral development, psychosocial dilemma, and ageism
October 8 Chapter 4: Sensation, perception, colour weakness, conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, somesthetic senses, kinestheic senses, sensory
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Oct 26 Open access online journals
Oct 28 Reports and Grey literature
adaptation, sensory attention, sensory gating, illusion, depth perception
October 22 Chapter 5:States of Consciousnessconsciousness, altered state of consciousness, sleep-depravation psychosis, electroencphalogram EEG, beta waves, delta waves, function of REM sleep, nightmare, night terrors, hypnotic susceptibility, psychoactive drug, sensory deprivation
October 9th, Courtney came in the morning and revised chapter 1. She had a study guide. Courtney used the glossary for definitions.
October 9th, 10 am: Librarian gave the four sheets of the study guide to students and they made photocopies. (5 students.) Note: Extra time was made by students to revise for midterm.
October 9, Psychology Wall @ the library: Flowchart at a glance for each of the chapters. Students were welcome to highlight text and read it
Oct 14: Midterm exam written in class. Asked the students for the feedback and they said some of the content was covered in the exam.
Oct 15: Feedback from the teacher was positive and the teacher was glad that the library-faculty student collaboration will benefit students in their learning journey.
Oct 15: Administration had a meeting in the library and they talked about this study sharing circle.
Following is a picture of the instructor and a student in front of the Psychology Sharing Wall and a student
using flowcharts from the study guide.
Figure 4: Instructor Ruth Ann Linklater
Figure 5: Student using the flow charts from the study guides
8. Indigenous studies 1911 class uses the resources and computers
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October 20 Books
October 27 Journal articles
October 20: Students read the Plains Cree peoples books and wrote down the outline and how does this relate to Maskwacis Plains Cree community. The writing blocks were emailed to the instructor.
October 27: An information package was prepared for the instructor. The package included copies of the declaration (grey literature), bibliography, books, and journal articles were prepared for Yvonne Saddleback instructor for the 1911: Indigenous studies course on October 27th. The package was given to the instructor and a conversation occurred about the assignment which involved a focus on Article 11 listed on page 20 of the declaration brochure (grey literature).
Article 11
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to practise and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future mainfestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artefacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature.
2. States shall provide redress through effective mechanisms, which may include restitution, developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples, with respect to their cultural, intellectual, religious and spiritual property taken without their free, prior and informed consent or in violation of their laws, traditions and customs.
A peek view of the references is presented here below:
61/295. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples. (2014). Fourth World
Journal, 12(2), 157-166.
Bruce, H., & Gilio-Whitaker, D. (2014). Implementing
the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, Nation-by-Nation and State-by-
State. Fourth World Journal, 13(1), 83-92.
Churchill, W. (2011). A Travesty Of A Mockery Of A
Sham: Colonialism as 'Self-Determination' in the
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples. Griffith Law Review (Griffith
University, As Represented By Its Socio-Legal
Research Centre), 20(3), 526-556.
Gillies, C. (2013). Establishing the United Nations'
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
as the Minimum Standard for All Forensic
Practice with Australian Indigenous
Peoples. Australian Psychologist, 48(1), 14-27.
doi:10.1111/ap.12003
Harrington, J. (2010). Canada And The United Nations
Human Rights Council: Dissent And
Division. University Of New Brunswick Law
Journal, 6078-115.
Rÿser, R. C. (2011). US Consultation Policy and "Free,
Prior and Informed Consent". Fourth World
Journal, 10(1), 95-111.
Wheatley, S. (2014). Conceptualizing the Authority of
the Sovereign State over Indigenous
Peoples. Leiden Journal Of International
Law, 27(2), 371-396.
doi:10.1017/S092215651300037X http://informationliteracystandards.blogspot.ca/2015/10/information-package-includes-variety-of.html
Figure 6: Instructor Yvonne Saddleback using the resource package prepared by library staff
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Figure 7: A student from Indigenous studies 1911 using library resources and computers
9. Online learners support group on October 21
Online learners are students enrolled in online programs from Athabasca, Grant MacEwan, College of the Rockies, First Nations University of Canada, etc and these students are taking human resource management, recreation management from Maskwacis gathered at the library on October 21. Students talked about their assignments, information sources used, APA citations, writing skills, exam proctoring, space to study, and expressed frustrations that they had no support from the libraries of the institutions from where they had enrolled in online courses.
Some students said the assignments must be designed in a question format and email communication with instructors did not clarify their concerns.
10. Open Access Week October 19 - 25, 2015 theme is Open for Collaboration
SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change. Its pragmatic focus is to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of
scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries.
Open access (OA) is the free, immediate, online accessibility of peer-reviewed research articles coupled with full reuse rights. As defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOIA) Open Access means:
"free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."
Maskwacis Library created awareness for indigenous open access textbooks and online journals.
http://www.openaccessweek.org/
11. Capacity development by connecting with schools - Science Day, October 7 at the Louis Bull School
Maskwacis Library connected Let's Talk Science team with the Louis Bull School. A science day with hands-on experiments was hosted on October 7, 2015.
Let's Talk Science visited Louis Bull School to deliver hands-on science activities to grades 1-5 students. Over 100 children participated. They learned about chemistry, hearing & sound, lights and shadows, magnetism, colors and energy.
A team of four volunteers was grateful for the school's hospitality. The gym teacher was the host and he was extremely helpful throughout the half day that we were there. His colleagues also provided excellent support to us to facilitate activity delivery. This was greatly appreciated.
Let's Talk Science team would also like to thank the school for providing lunch. Let's Talk Science team leader William Chan's observation was," The students really enjoyed the hands-on learning." Everyone, including all the Let's Talk Science volunteers, had a lot
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of fun that day.
Figure 8: Let's Talk Science team at Louis Bull School
12. How to get your work published session on October 29
Mr. Mostafa, Editor of Ponoka News shared some suggestions to sharpen writing skills. How to approach newspapers to cover events? How to write for a newspaper?
Figure 9: Newspaper editor sharing knowledge about writing styles
13. Recording oral histories workshop on October 31
Andrea Abernathy will be facilitating a workshop about recording and preserving stories. For more details visit http://collegelibraryservices.blogspot.ca/2015/10/introduction-to-recording-and.html
Figure 10: Learners becoming aware of the protocol involved in interviewing elders
14. Announcing First Nations Library Services Without Borders Institute Gathering, April 12-15, 2016
Cost $250 for the full institute, 2 credits=26 hoursor $100/day. The session and presenter profiles are posted on the following page.http://servingindigenouscommunities.blogspot.ca/
15. Statistics Canada presentation
Please join us on Monday, November 16 from 10-11 am in the computer lab for the Statistics Canada presentation by Connie Legrande. The learning areas are as follows:
Outline• Aboriginal Liaison Program• 2016 Census of Population• Census questions• National Household Survey• Census recruitment• Census collection• Community / organization involvement
Happy Halloween
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Figure 11: Student Halloween contest
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