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- Recent Government of Canada Publications from the Weekly Acquisitions List
The Government of Canada’s Weekly Acquisitions List is a list of publications by various public bodies and agencies of the federal government that were catalogued in the previous week. Among other documents, the most recent list features Canada’s action plan on combatting hate:The Acquisitions List … Read more »
- AI Reference Chatbot at the University of Calgary Library
OCLC, an international library services company, organized a webinar in November 2024 that showcased a chatbot project of the University of Calgary Library:”In 2021, the University of Calgary Libraries launched a multilingual reference chatbot by leveraging a commercial product that combines a large … Read more »
- Statistics Canada Article on Monetary Penalties in Adult Criminal Courts
Statistics Canada today published an article on Monetary penalties in adult criminal courts:”Fines were the most frequently ordered monetary penalty for guilty offenders, accounting for 23% of penalties in adult criminal court cases completed during the period from April 1, 2019, to March 31, 2023. … Read more »
- Canadian Library Associations Advocacy Initiatives
Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research has just published an article called Libraries On the Hill: An Exploratory Study of Canadian Library Associations Advocacy Initiatives.It takes a look at the areas of advocacy of three major Canadian associations, the … Read more »
- New Law Library of Congress Report on Access to Information for Persons with Disabilities
The Law Library of Congress in Washington has recently published a report on Access to Information for Persons with Disabilities in Selected Jurisdictions: “This multinational report covers the right of access to information for persons with disabilities in the selected jurisdictions of Brazil, Cana … Read more »