http://hdl.handle.net/1974/262 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:32:10 GMT 2013-05-20T14:32:10Z http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6487 Title: Canada Lite: impact of LibQUAL+® Lite on the members of the LibQUAL+ Canada Consortium Authors: Kalb, Sam Abstract: This paper assesses the impact of the new LibQUAL+® Lite survey format implemented in 2010 as experienced by the members of the LibQUAL+® Canada Consortium. LibQUAL+®’s largest consortium did the survey with 53 academic libraries in 2007 and 47 academic members in 2010. This paper will compare the consortium’s completion rate, proportion of valid surveys, and mean aggregate scores between the 2007 and 2010 LibQUAL+® surveys. The paper will also offer an assessment of LibQUAL+® Lite and its value for the libraries in the province of Quebec, Canada’s francophone province. The bi-lingual nature of the consortium presented LibQUAL+® with a number of challenges in 2007. This paper will see how well these challenges have been met. Description: Preprint of paper given at the 2010 Library Assessment Conference, Washington, D.C., Oct. 25-27, 2010 to be published in the conference proceedings. Tue, 03 May 2011 13:01:37 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6487 2011-05-03T13:01:37Z http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6190 Title: Education for Resiliency: An Examination of Risks in a Native American Youth Environment Authors: du Hamel Yellow Horn, Paula Abstract: This thesis examines Blackfoot (Kainai) Native youth risks in contemporary society including alcohol, drugs, and crime. The overall purpose of the thesis is to investigate and address environmental, social, physical, and mental issues associated with risks, in both their rural and urban environment for Kainai youth in Southern Alberta, Canada. The research and fieldwork conducted observes Native American Peoples, specifically Kainai youth risks, and explores resiliency and factors contributing to resiliency in support of Native American youth. Not only do I examine the individual, but I examine multiple variables and connections, including the community, to guide my analysis. My research framework is supported by Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social realities - the ‘field’, ‘Habitus’, and ‘capital’. The research undertaken considers the social, cultural, and economic realities existing in Native American communities and therefore investigates what values are associated with them and the rationale behind their construction. More specifically, I examine Native American inter-generational traumas stemming from colonization violences, and, intragenerational traumas – Native American tendencies to incur self-violences and perpetuate continual cycles of violences. The purpose of this thesis is to identify the social realities of risk to help develop resiliency in Native American youth in contemporary Native American environments. Thus the research focuses not only on helping young peoples as individuals, but also on helping Native American communities and non-native communities to deal better with the consequences of colonization and assimilation practices of Native American Peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) in the history of Canada. My research aims to do the latter by showing how alternative social practices are needed in Native American communities, framed (in Bourdieu’s terms) within alternative social fields and alternative forms of social capital that support the formation, development, and maintenance of alternative dispositions in at-risk Indigenous young people – that is, an alternative Habitus for the young people involved. This alternative Habitus will be one that sustains the resiliency of young Native American Peoples. Description: Doctor of Education thesis awarded in 2009 from Charles Sturt University. The author has given permission to the Queen's University Education Library to add this thesis to the publications held in QSpace so that it can be freely searched and disseminated on the Web and used for educational purposes. Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:23:46 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6190 2010-11-05T14:23:46Z http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1699 Title: Bench-marking on a national scale: the 2007 LibQUAL Canada experience Authors: Kalb, Sam Abstract: Preprint of paper given at the 2008 Library Assessment Conference, Seattle, Wash., Aug. 5, 2008 to be published in the conference proceedings. Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:26:21 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1699 2009-02-05T13:26:21Z http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1698 Title: LibQUAL Canada 2007: Service Quality Bench-marking on a National Scale Authors: Kalb, Sam Abstract: Preprint of paper presented at the 2008 IFLA Satellite Conference on Global Statistics, Montreal, Quebec, Aug. 19, 2008 to be published in the conference proceedings. Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:22:07 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1698 2009-02-05T13:22:07Z