This semester our library created a new space in our Library, the Mindfulness Corner. Created out of concern for student mental health following the pandemic, the space is intended as a welcoming space for students to study, destress, regain focus, receive comfort and positive affirmations, and practice mindfulness. I will explain how this project…[Read more]

This lightning talk will cover how visual literacy can help us view and use primary sources for research and teaching purposes. We will look at some of the issues when using visual materials, what visual literacy standards can be followed to avoid these issues, and how these interactive objects can tell the stories of people, places, and things.

In this lightning talk, I will discuss my experience in leading the social media content for two different libraries. In creating digital content for an art and design college library, we highlight different projects, events, and resources for the university’s community. On the other hand, digital content for a medical library centers on bringing…[Read more]

The Whitney Museum of American Art recently published a video series called Shelf Exploration to its social media feeds. The project, a collaboration between our library and digital media teams, was conceived as a way to feature staff work and collections outside the typical scope of our digital communications, and to harness the show-and-tell…[Read more]

Breaking Barriers: How Libraries Can Better Support Women Architecture Students for Professional Success
Cathryn Copper, Head, Eberhard Zeidler Library, University of Toronto

Canadian contemporary dancer and choreographer Karen Jamieson, based in Vancouver, BC, is nationally recognized for her work in community-engaged dance and cross-cultural collaborations with Indigenous communities since the early 1990s. The works that came out of these close collaborative relationships, captured in the Karen Jamieson Dance (KJD)…[Read more]

The development of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) has brought about new opportunities for improving the learning experience in education. ChatGPT, a large language model trained on a vast corpus of text, has the potential to revolutionize education by enhancing learning through personalized and interactive conversations. This paper…[Read more]

One of the challenges in secondary schools today is infringements on students’ rights, in a tortious way that may also constitute breach of the Child’s Right Act of 2003 in Nigeria. These breach on rights usually come through the administration of corporal punishments on students, and mainly because the school heads see themselves as loco par…[Read more]

The students’ academic performance is the key element for both learners and teachers in examining the educational objectives for all subjects. This work is entitled “Factors contributing to Students’ Academic Performance in Biology State Examination at Upper Secondary Schools in Gitega commune, Burundi” explores the factors that influence the s…[Read more]

Schools have resumed receiving students after more than two years of closing doors to learners. College students. Students have built preferences on their professors even before the pandemic began. Using the epistemological lens in conducting research, the purpose of the study is to know the expectations of Filipino college students about the…[Read more]

Traducción parcial, por Irina López Rodríguez y Gabriela Méndez Cota, del capítulo 5, ‘Justice and Abrupt Climate Change’, de Clark, N. (2011) Inhuman Nature. Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet. London: Sage, 107-136.

Setting out from accounts of metal working by authors Colson Whitehead and Toni Morrison, the paper looks at how heat-induced transformation of inorganic matter is at once a condition of possibility of modern politics and tends to overflow politicization. While Anthropocene science directs attention to the interaction between the flows of the…[Read more]

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the students’ self-efficacy, test anxiety and performance on Mathematics of Saint Joseph College, Junior High School Department for SY 2019-2020. The respondents of the study were randomly chosen junior high school students. A descriptive correlational method of research was u…[Read more]

This study employed an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) which aimed to explore the lived experiences, challenges, and coping mechanisms of teachers in the public school both in elementary and secondary schools in Malolos, Bulacan. The findings of this study revealed that most teachers are significantly challenged with the poor…[Read more]