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Keeping it Real 2021 Program
9:30-9:45: Opening Remarks
Jonathan Bengtson, University Librarian, University of Victoria
Matt Huculak, University of Victoria, Chair Keeping it ReAL 2021 Planning Committee
9:45-10:45: Keynote Panel:
Building Capacity: There is No Roadmap, Navigating Your Pathways to LIS Research
Moderator: Christine Walde
Panelists: Shailoo Bedi, Ashley Edwards, Erin Fields
How do we build capacity in LIS research? What is LIS research? How do we orient ourselves as researchers in the interdisciplinary, community based, and academic contexts that our positions sit? How do you even start as a LIS researcher?
These questions and more will be explored in a panel discussion with Erin Fields (UBCV), Shailoo Bedi (UVic), Ashley Edwards (SFU), moderated by Christine Walde (UVic).
Bios:
Ashley Edwards is a Métis, Dutch, and Scottish librarian with SFU Library. She holds a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Alberta, a BA in Adult Education and a library technician diploma from the University of the Fraser Valley. Her current position is Indigenous Initiatives and Instruction, and she has been developing the library's Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre. Ashley grew up on Stó:lō territory, in the Fraser Valley, and feels a deep connection to that landscape. While learning Stó:lō stories of the land, waterways, and animals, she developed an interest in how libraries can bring land based stories and teachings into a space that is traditionally textual. Ashley's writing can be found in Pathfinder: A Canadian Journal for Information Science Students and Early Career Professionals, and Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. She has a chapter in the forthcoming ACRL Publication Ethnic Studies in Academic and Research Libraries.
Erin Fields is the Open Education and Scholarly Communications Librarian University of British Columbia. Erin was the Open Education Visiting Program Officer for the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL/ABRC) in 2019. She is the recipient of the 2018 Award of Excellence in Open Education and the Open Education Research & Advocacy Fellowship with BCcampus. Erin was also one of the 2019 UBC Open Educational Resource Champion recipients, a recognition from the UBC Vancouver Alma Mater Society, the VP Academic and Provost, and UBC Library. Her latest public focused on the intersections of critical information literacy and open pedagogy in library instruction.
Shailoo Bedi is cross-appointed as the Director for Student Academic Success at UVic Libraries and in the Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation division at the University of Victoria. Her dual role centres around leading initiatives which foster student engagement and success including coordinating the undergraduate student research awards, developing programming to support student academic writing and integrity, learning strategies programs, and serving as the managing editor for the university’s undergraduate research journal, the Arbutus Review. Within UVic Libraries, she is responsible for leading the libraries’ instructional program, the Learning Commons, and facilities planning. For both divisions, she leads assessment and evaluation indicatives. Shailoo also believes in being an active academic citizen and sits on several campus wide committees, including the Human Research Ethics Board and the University of Victoria’s Board of Governors.
She completed her PhD in Education – Curriculum and Instruction in 2015 and is currently an adjunct assistant professor with the Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies department at UVic, where she teach graduate courses in the area of diversity, anti-racism education, leadership and narrative inquiry. She continues to research and write and has recently co-edited a book Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies with Facet Publishing.
Shailoo is committed to the development of library and information professionals and she co-teaches in LLEAD, a leadership development program for the library and information sector. She also strongly believes in community service and is involved in the broader Victoria community, where she serves on the Board for Artemis Place Society, an independent school that provides holistic social and emotional support and high school education to young women who are pregnant or parenting and all trans-youth. As an immigrant settler from India, she would like to acknowledge her most heartfelt gratitude and honour to the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples, on whose traditional territory she had the privilege to learn and grow on.
10:45-11:00: Break
11:00-12:00pm: Lightning Sessions
Moderator: Donna Langille
Session 1: A perfect excuse for partnership: Leveraging the Tri-Agency RDM Policy
Monique Grenier, University of Victoria
Monique Grenier is the interim Data Curation Librarian at University of Victoria Libraries where she supports students and researchers in adopting data management practices and publishing their research data. Amongst her other roles, she is the institutional administer of UVic’s Dataverse and serves as the Director of Continuing Education for the Health Libraries Association of British Columbia. She holds an M.L.I.S. from the University of British Columbia.
Session 2: Presenting Team Sisyphus: Meet the uphill rock pushers who enabled access to internal SSHRC funds for SFU librarians
Alison Moore, SFU and Holly Hendrigan, SFU
Ali Moore is a Digital Scholarship Librarian in the SFU Library Research Commons, where she manages the Knowledge Mobilization Hub and Digital Humanities Innovation Lab.
Holly Hendrigan is the librarian for the Faculty of Applied Sciences at SFU, and a co-chair of SFU Library's Research Interest Group.
Session 3: Research: Shaken, not Stirred
Zahra Premji, University of Victoria
Session 4: Alone, together; or What’s the point of a virtual writing group?
Amy McLay Paterson, Thompson Rivers University
Amy is the Assessment and User Experience Librarian at Thompson Rivers University Library. In her mythical spare time, she enjoys writing, baking, and archery.
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Paper Sessions
Moderator: Shahira Khair
Session 1: Collection Policy Development at Xwi7xwa Library: tough questions with selections for Indigenous collections
Karleen DeLaurier-Lyle, University of British Columbia
Session 2: Building Bridges Across Campus
Erik Kwakkel, iSchool @ UBC
2:00-2:15: Break
2:15-3:00 Breakout Room Discussions
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie), and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) Nations and peoples on whose ancestral and unceded lands the three SFU Library branches are located. By recognizing the Unceded Traditional Coast Salish territories, we aspire to create space for reconciliation through dialogue and decolonizing practices.