scholarly journals Canadian Collaborations: Library Communications and Advocacy in the time COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Winter ◽  
Mark Swartz ◽  
Victoria Owen ◽  
Ann Ludbrook ◽  
Brianne Selman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Copyright Law ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Chat Reference ◽  
Library Community ◽  
Virtual Services ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

The COVID-19 pandemic forced libraries to unexpectedly and suddenly close their physical locations, necessitating a remote working environment and a greater reliance on digital and virtual services. While libraries were in a better position than most sectors due to decades of experience in licensing and acquiring digital content and offering virtual services such as chat reference, there still were some services and resources that traditionally had only been offered in a face-to-face environment, or were available in print only. There were questions in the Canadian library community about how, and if these programs could be delivered online and comply with Canadian copyright law. This article will describe the access and copyright challenges that Canadian libraries faced during the first nine months of the pandemic and will outline the collaborative efforts of the Canadian library copyright community to respond to these challenges.

scholarly journals The Labour Market Participation of Immigrant Women : A Study on Immigrant Women in the Flemingdon Park Area

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sew Ming Tian
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Park Area ◽  
And Gender

Through face-to-face interviews with seven immigrant women living in the Flemingdon Park area, this paper explores the barriers that immigrant women encounter in accessing the labour market, and the challenges they face in the labour market. The findings suggest that lack of work experience, language barriers, absence of networks, lack of education, and family responsibilities and gender roles are major barriers that immigrant women have to cope with while accessing the Canadian labour market. Working environment and underemployment appeared to be the challenges that immigrant women who are, or have been in the labour force, had to deal with in the work place.

scholarly journals Negotiating Gender and Police Culture: Exploring the Barriers to Retention and Progression of Female Police Officers in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Shannon M. Chan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Police Culture ◽  
Women Officers ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
New Rhetoric ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Female Police Officers

<p>Women officers represent a minority within the New Zealand Police (Police) particularly within the senior ranks. In recent years, Police have made concerted efforts to increase women’s representation as well as improve the working environment. However, recent reviews of the 2007 Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct have reported that women continue to face barriers to full integration and furthermore, that the changes to the police culture have reached a plateau. New Zealand and international research have established that police culture continues to pose a barrier to women’s full acceptance within policing. This culture is characterised by predominantly white, heterosexual males, who form what has been described as a “cult of masculinity”. Therefore, women find they must adopt the culture in order to “fit in” and be accepted as “one of the boys”.  Adopting a qualitative framework, this research involved semi-structured face-to-face interviews with sworn female police officers. Exploring female police officers’ experiences identified five pertinent barriers to women’s retention and progression. These were the emphasis on physical skills and excitement, the police camaraderie and the cult of masculinity, sexual harassment within the workplace, women’s minority status, and balancing motherhood with policing. It was found that the persistence of these barriers came back to core features of police culture. Due to the strong allegiance to the positive aspects of the police culture, such as the camaraderie, negative features such as sexual banter and harassment were subsumed within the wider culture. Negative features were tolerated and accepted as part and parcel of working in the Police. Women’s narratives demonstrated that they adhered to core police culture features and thus contributed to the sustenance of the culture. Furthermore, how women articulated their experiences and perceptions of barriers was complex and nuanced. Many held the belief that there were no longer any barriers for women in the Police, yet such positive views were in contradiction with their own experiences. The tension between “perceptions” and “reality” creates a situation where the Police currently sit at a crossroads between the “old” culture and the new rhetoric of “change”.</p>

scholarly journals Lifting the Veil: Analyzing Collaborative Virtual Reference Transcripts to Demonstrate Value and Make Recommendations for Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Brown
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Transcript Analysis ◽  
Virtual Reference ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Chat Reference ◽  
College Population ◽  
Recommendations For Practice ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Significant Patterns

Extended transcript analysis was used to analyze how our chat reference was being used and make recommendations for practice. Because this analysis was longitudinal (over a year, or at least several months) significant patterns were documented. Several themes were noted that emphasized the unique characteristics of the Community College population. The project documented that chat reference patrons are persistent. The questions that came up about assessing the service underlined the commonalities between virtual and face to face reference.

scholarly journals PENGGEMBALAAN YANG EFEKTIF BAGI GENERASI MILENIAL DI ERA SOCIETY 5.0

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONI MANUMPAK PARULIAN GULTOM
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Level Of Concern ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Virtual Services

The results of the Barna Institute stated that 57% of children aged 18-29 years did not regularly worship. While a survey from Number Research in the age range of 15-18 years, adolescents who do not usually worship are 7.7%. That increased to 10.2% at the age of 19-22 years and reached 13.7% at this age of 23-25 years. Their level of concern for God and worship decreased drastically. The local church lost its way of shepherding them. Shepherd stewardship did not develop linearly with the development of social media. How should shepherd be? What strategies are used be in face-to-face pastoral care and virtual spaces? This paper aims to restore the quality of pastoring function and bridge the logical church pastoring caretaker with the virtual world. The research method used is a qualitative method with literature study and observation. This research hoped to maximize the shepherding and discipleship of millennial children. So that millennial children experience spiritual growth, remain committed to shepherding, and contribute to local and virtual services on an ongoing basis

Fair Use, Fair Dealing: will they survive?

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rina Elster Pantalony
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Fair Dealing ◽  
Absurd Conclusion ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Right ◽  
Gain Access

A previous article by this author discussed an emerging phenomenon on the Internet. That is, how the law, by denying copyright protection to certain kinds of digital works, may have restricted access to such works instead of liberating them, as was initially intended by the judiciary. This absurd conclusion has resulted from owners whose works are no longer protected by copyright law, who have resorted to restrictive contractual provisions on-line to control access and use of their works. And in turn, owners of such content are still able to generate revenue by charging a subscription fee for the right to gain access to the information contained therein. The result is particularly troubling to end users of digital content. If copyright law is no longer applicable, then what of the Fair Use/Fair Dealing defences available to users of these works? Does this mean that these defences are not applicable either? Are users of such content completely at the mercy of the owners’ terms and conditions of use as dictated by click-on agreements and Rules of Use posted on Web sites? This article discusses the application of Fair Dealing and Fair Use to Internet-based works, by examining the legislative and judicial responses to the ambiguities in their intellectual property protection which new technologies create.

scholarly journals Problems Faced by Married Women with Epilepsy in Indian Scenario: A Hospital-Based Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 080-086
Author(s):  
Sunil Kumar Sharma ◽  
Vijay Sardana ◽  
Dilip Maheshwari ◽  
Bharat Bhushan ◽  
Nishtha Jain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Prospective Observational Study ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Enacted Stigma ◽  
Microsoft Office ◽  
Collaborative Efforts ◽  
Indian Scenario

Abstract Background Epilepsy is still being considered as a social stigma especially in developing countries such as India. This study was conducted to analyze the problems faced by married women with epilepsy in various aspects of personal and social life. Objectives The main purpose of this article is to study the psychosocial problems, drug compliance, clinical course, attitude of in-laws, and effect of epilepsy on pregnancy and its outcome in married women with epilepsy in Indian scenario. Design, Materials, and Methods This is a prospective observational study including 100 patients. Questionnaire-based face-to-face interview of all the patients was conducted. Patients were divided into informed and concealed groups and various attributes and their significance were compared. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS-20.0 and Microsoft Office Excel software. Results Out of 100 patients, a total of 58 (58%) patients had informed prior to marriage, while 42 (42%) concealed it. Attitude of husband was negative in 33% (14 out of 42) of concealed group and was statistically significant (p = 0.03). Statistically significant adverse marital outcome was observed in concealed group and Muslim community (p = 0.0001). Majority of the patients in both groups (86%) opined that it should be disclosed prior to marriage. Conclusion In a developing country such as India, epilepsy is still considered a social stigma that can manifest as felt or enacted stigma. Previous studies clearly indicate increasing awareness. Social stigma associated with epilepsy can only be eliminated with collaborative efforts of healthcare professional, government, and general public.

Digitisation: Do We Have a Strategy?

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Great Change ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Sense Of Direction ◽  
Library Community ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation

The notion that we are living through times of great change in the communication of information and the transmission of texts is a truism which will bring a weary look to most professionals with any kind of involvement in the area. The digital age, the information age, the electronic age — we've all heard these terms so many times and have sat through innumerable discussions, and seen even more documents, trying to sort out what it all means. There are almost as many views on the likely pace of change and the shape of the landscape 10 or 20 years from now as there are librarians to hold forth on the subject. Perhaps this helps to explain why the library community as a whole seems to be in such a rudderless state regarding the creation of digital content; no shortage of action, but no overall sense of direction. I am talking here about digitisation of our documentary heritage, that vast mass of books, archives and other media which fill our library shelves today.

Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
June M. Besek
Keyword(s):  
Copyright Law ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Convenient Means ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Long Term Preservation ◽  
Property Regime

The collection and long-term preservation of digital content pose challenges to the intellectual property regime within which libraries and archives are accustomed to working. How to achieve an appropriate balance between copyright owners and users is a topic of ongoing debate in legal and policy circles. This paper describes copyright rights and exceptions and highlights issues potentially involved in the creation of a nonprofit digital archive. The paper is necessarily very general, since many decisions concerning the proposed archive's scope and operation have not yet been made. The purpose of an archive (e.g., to ensure preservation or to provide an easy and convenient means of access), its subject matter, and the manner in which it will acquire copies, as well as who will have access to the archive, from where, and under what conditions, are all factors critical to determining the copyright implications for works to be included in it. The goal of this paper is to provide basic information about the copyright law for those developing such an archive and thereby enable them to recognize areas in which it could impinge on copyright rights and to plan accordingly. After initial decisions have been made, a more detailed analysis will be possible. As the paper indicates, there are a number of areas that would benefit from further research. Such research may not yield definitive legal answers, but could narrow the issues and suggest strategies for proceeding.

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