Browsing Waterloo Research by Author "Robichaud, Danielle"
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The Cheese Stands Alone: Situating the University of Waterloo within the Canadian Academic Library Landscape
Robichaud, Danielle; Byl, Lauren (Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians, 2023-02-03)Despite a body of scholarly literature about the labour conditions of Canadian academic libraries/ians, little has been written about non-unionized Canadian librarians/archivists or the related historical and evolving ... -
Collaborative archival practice: Rethinking outreach, access, and reconciliation using Wikipedia
Robichaud, Danielle; McCracken, Krista (2017-04-28)Based on first-hand experience and concrete examples, the presentation outlines the use of Wikipedia as a tool for community engagement and as a way of improving the discoverability of archival content through collaboration. ... -
Doing the work: Editing Wikipedia as an act of reconciliation
Robichaud, Danielle; McCracken, Krista (On Archivy, 2018-08-28)The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action outline the responsibilities of cultural heritage workers to educate both themselves and the general public about the Canadian Indian Residential School ... -
Inevitably Wikipedia
Robichaud, Danielle (2019-10-24)Broad overview of editing Wikipedia through an archival lens, including contributing to the Wikimedia Commons. -
Integrating Equity and Reconciliation Work into Archival Descriptive Practice at the University of Waterloo
Robichaud, Danielle (Archivaria, 2021-06)Despite sustained calls for a critical review of harmful content within archival descriptive records, there remains much to be explored by way of implications for Canadian academic archives. This article addresses the ... -
Migrating Archival Descriptive Records to AtoM: The Good, the Bad and the Yikes
Robichaud, Danielle (Archives Association of Ontario, 2020-10)Special Collections & Archives at the University of Waterloo Library began migrating from a series of internal descriptive databases to a public facing instance of AtoM in 2016. This article provides an overview of the ... -
Missed connections: looking for everything in the archives
Robichaud, Danielle (Active History, 2017-06-26)Archivists are commonly asked by researchers to produce everything available about a particular topic. While understandable from a researcher standpoint, fulfilling the request is a challenge. Unlike library holdings, ... -
No, we can't just script it: and other refrains from (tired) archival data migrators
Robichaud, Danielle; Allain, Sara (2017-09-28)How are print finding aids migrated from binders in reading rooms to web-based descriptive platforms? And why is it taking so long? Paying special attention to format, description and discoverability challenges presented ... -
A tale of two Islandoras
La Faive, Rosie; Matthews, Courtney; Moses, Donald; Robichaud, Danielle (2017-02-02)The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) and the University of Waterloo (UW) represent two distinct experiences on the road to implementing Islandora – one pioneered its development and the other is launching the ... -
Walking the Talk: Editing Wikipedia with Purpose
Robichaud, Danielle (2020-03-10)Started nineteen years ago Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites on the Internet, but its popularity is not without issue. Editors are predominantly males from the global north which has led to documented systemic ... -
Wikipedia as an arena for public scholarship
Robichaud, Danielle (Centre for Career Action, 2020-10-14)Wikipedia provides scholars with an avenue for meaningfully contributing to the widely used public knowledge platform despite contribution guidelines that restrict the use of original research. This slide-based learning ... -
Wikipedia Edit-a-thons: Thinking Beyond the Warm Fuzzie
Robichaud, Danielle (Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2017)Wikipedia edit-a-thons represent a unique and fruitful avenue for galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) to engage with new and existing segments of their user communities. Encompassing information and technical ...