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9:00 – 9:15am
Welcome and opening remarks
9:15 – 10:30am
Keynote & Q&A:
Organizing Ideas podcast
Karen Ng, Allison Jones, Ted Lee & Ean Henninger
Precarious work pervades libraries, archives, and information organizations and its impacts are increasingly obvious (and disastrous) in the midst of a global pandemic. How does precarity affect knowledge mobilization? How can researchers mobilize knowledge when their working conditions are uncertain? How can folks researching precarious work mobilize their findings to organize workers and change the conditions of their labour?
10:30 – 10:40am
Break
10:45 – 11:45pm
Knowledge Mobilization 101
Lupin Battersby (SFU)
Knowledge mobilization is all about ways we can do more with what we know to ensure research and community (practice, policy, public) comes together to have a positive impact on society. In this workshop, we introduce you to the language, strategies, and opportunities for doing more with what you know. Participants will work on developing a knowledge mobilization plan that can be used in grant proposals, partnership meetings, or to initiate their mobilizing activities. SFU’s Knowledge Mobilization Officer will facilitate this interactive session, weaving illustrative case examples and KM planning activities with the content.
Learning Objectives:
- Familiar with knowledge mobilization terminology including disciplinary differences
- Able to consider using a KM model or framework to guide KM planning and activities
- Know the building blocks of writing a KM plan
- Aware of SFU KM related supports and resources
Lupin Battersby has a PhD in Health Sciences and a MA in Counselling Psychology. Lupin has been working in the space of knowledge mobilization in various capacities for 15 years. Her passion was sparked for knowledge mobilization when she noticed the gap between research and practice first hand working both as a clinical counsellor and a research assistant. From then on she focused on challenges and opportunities to mobilize the research she was involved in - qualitative research related to mental health, aging, housing relocations, and health inequities. Lupin has applied her knowledge mobilization and research background as the knowledge translation specialist with the BC SUPPORT Unit Fraser Centre, in quality improvement at Fraser Health, and now as SFU’s knowledge mobilization officer.
11:45 – 12:30pm
Lunch break
12:30 – 1:30pm
Lightning talks
Representation & Visualization: Building a Discovery Tool for the Transgender Archives
Michael Radmacher & Shahira Khair (UVic)
In order to build and maintain a healthy community, members need to understand their past. The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries is home to the world's largest collection of Trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and other gender-diverse history. In December 2019, we proudly launched an online Discovery Tool to search our collection of publications, which include articles written by trailblazing community members, and historical events that shaped trans activism and history. In this presentation, Michael Radmacher (MLIS, MA) and Shahira Khair (M.Sc, MIS) will tell the story of this project, and will offer a demonstration of the new discovery tool.
Michael Radmacher (MA, MLIS) works with the Chair in Transgender Studies and the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria. He serves as the Project Manager for the Transgender Archives' Discovery Tool.
Shahira Khair is a Data Curation Librarian at University of Victoria Libraries where she supports students and researchers in adopting good data management practices and publishing their research data.
Are we Twitter-famous yet? Using an issue-based Twitter account for knowledge mobilization
Adena Brons, Chloe Riley, Ean Henninger & Crystal Yin (SFU)
In November 2017, four precariously employed librarians formed a research team to study aspects of precarious employment in Canadian libraries. This ongoing research project has involved analysis of job postings from the Partnership Job Board, interviews with library workers, and a forthcoming survey that builds on these findings. Our research aims to address knowledge gaps about precarious labour in libraries and to start conversations about how library workers experience and imagine labour relationships. In April 2019, we created a Twitter account for our project (@LISPrecarity) to extend these conversations beyond scholarly communications and to connect with fellow researchers, advocates, and workers. In this lightning talk, we will discuss the advantages of having a shared account for a research project that goes beyond the project to become an issue-based account and hub for discussions. We contend that having no social media strategy has actually benefited us, freeing us from a set posting schedule and encouraging a range of types of posts. We will demonstrate how data visualizations and A+ gif use have allowed us to share insights, findings, and “deleted scenes” on Twitter outside of academic publications and conference presentations. Curating this account has helped us to build connections and disseminate our ideas beyond what we could achieve with our personal Twitter networks. As a result of this presentation, attendees will gain insight into one approach to knowledge mobilization via social media and appreciation for the importance of connecting a research project to the issues that it seeks to address.
Adena graduated with her MLIS/MAS in 2016 and has worked precarious librarian positions since. Her research interests include labour and equity in libraries.
Chloe has been working precariously in libraries since 2010. She has worked in various roles at SFU Library since graduating with her MLIS in 2016, and earlier this year started her first permanent full-time position in libraries. Her research interests include labour in libraries, social media practices, and critical librarianship.
The Significant Role of Metadata in Knowledge Mobilization (KMb): Mobilizing BCcampus OER into active use.
Elizabeth Padilla (BCcampus)
If knowledge mobilization is about ‘getting the right Information to the right people in the right format at the right time so as to influence decision making’ (Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, 2005), then OER metadata has a significant role to play in knowledge mobilization. The biggest barrier to using OER is the difficulty instructors have in finding the right OER at the right time. The proliferation of OER is relatively recent, and the ways of describing them have been ad hock, inconsistent, localized, and discriminant, which burden search strategies for finding OER. I will talk about how BCcampus is improving the findability of our OER resources by employing FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) principles to our metadata, and how we are working collaboratively with new partners on OER metadata standards that impact the creation, dissemination, exchange of OER, improve findability, and help facilitate the uptake of open educational resources.
Elizabeth Padilla MLIS, helps build digital collections.
Earthquake Preparedness in BC Libraries: Best Practices from Abroad
Ryan A. Casciano (SFU/UBC)
In this brief PowerPoint presentation, Ryan will discuss and summarize his research about earthquake preparedness in libraries, specifically outlining best practices from sources abroad. The project was part of his LIBR 593B (Information in Times of Crises) course at UBC over the summer of 2020 and was developed due to the known seismic activity of BC and lack of preparedness by the province (Auditor General of British Columbia, 2014). The presentation will give a brief background and contextualize what libraries can do and incorporate into their current disaster/earthquake response plan to better prepare themselves with respect to prevention and recovery through practices drawn from both literature and real-world examples. Ryan would also like to thank Dr. Sinnamon and Dr. Nathan for their support.
Ryan Casciano is a library assistant at SFU and a current MLIS student at UBC. He also is a student librarian at UBC and UCW, and has previously completed a co-op work term with the CRA. Ryan’s interest in disaster prepardness stems from his experience serving as co-chair of SFU’s Central University Health and Safety Committee (CUHSC). He is passionate about government information systems and safety/research design and hopes his lightning talk can mobilize interest in disaster prepardness.
1:30 – 1:40pm
Break
1:40 - 3:00 pm
Hands-On Infographics Workshop: How to Make Your Research More Accessible & Sharable
Rich McCue & Dani K. Johnston, Digital Scholarship Commons, University of Victoria Libraries
Would you like to make your research and reports more accessible and easily sharable on social media? If so then this hands-on Infographic workshop may be for you. Infographics have the ability to dissect and highlight important aspects of a complex subject and sustain the attention of readers while doing so. People will often look at an infographic rather than read a text-heavy research article containing the same content. If you're interested in learning more about how to create compelling infographics, please join us for a hands-on introductory workshop where we will use the free to use web-based Canva software to create an infographic. No previous experience is required. Participants will need to create a free Canva.com account in order to take part in the workshops (Canva is a US-based web service).
The learning outcome for this workshop are:
- Know why and where infographics can be useful communication tools.
- Determine which facts in a research paper or article are essential and which can be excluded in order to tell a compelling yet concise story.
- Summarize and translate quantitative data into tables, charts, or graphical representations.
- Summarize and translate quantitative information expressed in words into tables, charts, or graphical representations.
- Where appropriate, integrate and summarize visual information from photographs, videos, or maps into a graphical representation.
- Be able to use infographic software and associated templates to organize and present tables, charts, and graphical representations in a narrative that is aesthetically pleasing and compelling.
- Be aware of the different mediums available to publish and share infographics: Poster, hand-out, website, and social media.
You can find the CC-licensed workshop curriculum, including pre-workshop videos (6 minutes) and readings (5 minutes), at this web address: http://bit.ly/dsc-infographic
So You Want to Make a Podcast?
Donna Langille (UBC)
Podcasts can help you disseminate your research to a wider audience. Learn how to create your own scholarly podcast in this introductory and interactive workshop. This workshop will cover all levels of podcast production including content creation, recording, editing, and promotion. No previous podcasting experience is necessary. Facilitated by Donna Langille, Community Engagement Librarian at UBC Okanagan, and producer of the Okanagan QueerStory podcast, an interview podcast that seeks to highlight the queer history of the Okanagan.
Participants can download Audacity (a free, open source, cross-platform audio software) ahead of the workshop.
3:00 - 4:20 pm
Evaluating knowledge exchange work in libraries: challenges and possibilities
Kristina McDavid, Heather O’Brien, Nick Ubels, Karine Souffez (UBC), Heather De Forest (SFU) & Jess Yao (UBC MLIS student)
Knowledge exchange (KE), the sharing of information between two or more people or groups (Shaxson et al., p. 2), often relies on a spirit of collaboration, creativity, and experimentation, as well as trusting, reciprocal relationships between researchers and communities. This work is complex, taking place within an evolving environment and involving multiple stakeholders with varied motivations and interests. KE work may not progress linearly and it may take time for a measurable impact to emerge. It can be challenging to evaluate KE activities and to communicate value in a way that is meaningful and persuasive to constituent communities. Further, there are many opportunities for acknowledging processual benefits that lead to meaningful impacts, and for using evaluation to gather information that can enhance decision-making in a project that is underway.
The challenge, however, is in determining what evaluation methods and mechanisms are best suited for a project, and what capacity exists for carrying them out.We will touch briefly on some of the evaluation-related challenges identified in the course of a research study on information professionals and KE that is being conducted as part of the Supporting Transparent & Open Research Engagement & Exchange project. We will discuss possible goals for evaluations in the context of KE work. We will facilitate a discussion of approaches to evaluation, drawing on evaluation models that are in use in a variety of sectors and settings, with a focus on some examples from the UBC Learning Exchange’s Making Research Accessible initiative and the SFU Library Community Scholars Program. We will explore two evaluation approaches often employed in social innovation contexts, ‘developmental evaluation’ and change/logic models. Finally, we will consider how these evaluation models compare with those commonly used in libraries, and how this might influence approaches to gathering and interpreting data. This interactive workshop will aim to provide both theoretical and practical ideas to enhance or inform KE evaluation activities or plans in library settings, as well as an online resource list for future reference.
Reference
Shaxson, L. et al. Expanding our understanding of K* (KT, KE, KTT, KMb, KB, KM, etc.). UNU-INWEH, Hamilton, ON (2012).
Presenters:
Kristina McDavid is Co-Investigator on the Supporting Transparent & Open Research Engagement & Exchange study “Librarians at the centre of community-oriented knowledge work.” Kristina is a librarian at UBC, where she works with the MD Undergraduate Program. She recently completed a 3-year secondment as Executive Director for the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries. Kristina is interested in knowledge exchange and the democratization of information. She has been involved with the UBC Learning Exchange’s Making Research Accessible Initiative since its inception.
Heather O’Brien leads the STOREE Project (Supporting Transparent and Open Research Engagement and Exchange), a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant with UBC Library, SFU Library and the UBC Learning Exchange that seeks to support knowledge exchange in research. She is working on the “Librarians at the centre of community-oriented knowledge work” with Kristina McDavid, and is a member of the UBC Learning Exchange’s Making Research Accessible Steering Committee. As an instructor at the UBC School of Information, Heather teaches in the areas of information seeking and retrieval, scholarly communication and publishing, and research and design methods.
Nick Ubels (he/him) is a Community Engagement Librarian at the UBC Learning Exchange and Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Much of his work supports the development and use of the Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal (DTES RAP), a project of the Making Research Accessible initiative to make research relevant to the DTES more accessible and easier to discover. This portal is part of an ongoing commitment to changing the negative impacts of extractive ways of doing research and encouraging a more engaged and collaborative culture of knowledge exchange.
Collaborating with a rich network of partners, Karine leads the UBC Knowledge Exchange Unit's strategic positioning and development. She has twenty years of experience in governmental, non-governmental and academic settings, including sixteen in the field of knowledge exchange. From 2012-2018, Karine oversaw the knowledge exchange sector at the Quebec Public Health Institute, where she set up a team of Kx advisors and supported over 100 knowledge exchange projects. She is a member of the Making Research
Heather De Forest leads the Community Scholars Program, an initiative that provides staff from BC nonprofits with free access to a suite of paywalled journals and ebooks. She is a member of the Making Research Accessible initiative Steering Committee and a collaborator on the STOREE project. Heather has recently completed a certificate in knowledge mobilization and is interested in human centered design processes.
Jess Yao is an MLIS Student at UBC and co-op student at SFU Library. She is assisting with the STOREE project “Librarians at the centre of community-oriented knowledge work” under Heather O'Brien.
Sharing knowledge and informing decisions via The Conversation
Scott White, CEO|Editor-in-Chief, The Conversation Canada
The Conversation is the world's leading publisher of research-based news and analysis. It is a unique collaboration between academics and journalists. Free to read. Free to republish. Scott White is CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Conversation Canada. He will demonstrate and explain The Conversation's unique model of journalism and how it has become a successful knowledge mobilization platform for hundreds of Canadian academics and researchers
4:20 - 4:30 pm
Closing
4:30 - 5:30 pm
Social Event
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.