Pathfinder Journal

A student-led, open access journal promoting scholarly work by LIS students and early career professionals from across Canada.

Current EIC Arianna Alcaraz

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Now accepting submissions for our upcoming issue! We welcome original scholarship from current LIS or archival students, library tech students, and early career professionals who either graduated from a Canadian LIS program, or are currently working at a Canadian institution.

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From our 2023 issue, it's Hiu Wing Sze's excellent literature review, "Chat Reference: A Review of Question Types and Its Implication to Staffing and Communication Strategies." Here is the full review: https://t.co/E7BXA4JgBZ

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There is one week left until Pathfinder’s submissions close on Sunday, May 5! If you’re a Canadian LIS student or early-career professional and you’ve been thinking about submitting your work, now’s the time. https://t.co/1wt0SwD96w

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From our 2023 issue, it's Mount Royal University instruction librarian Joel Blechinger's excellent piece on the challenges posed by ChatGPT to the use of IL evaluation heuristics, "Reflections on Information Literacy in the ChatGPT Era." https://t.co/VNGDuQlf6W

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Are you a Canadian LIS or archival student or early career professional who has a reflection, personal account, or narrative with a fresh perspective of LIS work? Recently attended a library conference that gave you new insights into the profession? https://t.co/1wt0SwD96w

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Next up in our look back at our 2023 issue is Morgan Paul's (School of Information Management, Dalhousie University) fascinating scholarly article, "Looking to the Future: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy in Canada." https://t.co/1K2o0wZIcA

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As we work toward the publication of our 2024 issue, we're looking back at some of the excellent work published in our 2023 issue. First up is a reflection on the role of ChatGPT as a scholarly research tool by Chelsea Humphries, Public Services Librarian: https://t.co/acOyo05g93

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Have you created teaching resources or conducted literature reviews that would be useful to the LIS community? Or do you have opinions about a book relevant to the LIS field that you want to share? If so we're looking for your original scholarship! Visit https://t.co/9zZZJ4xCEm.

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Seeking submissions for peer-reviewed sections! https://t.co/3IwFay23d3