Giving Credit: How Well Do Librarians Cite and Quote Their Sources?

The practice of citing references is integral to scholarship. This paper focuses on three prominent journals for library science: College and Research Libraries, Library Resources and Technical Services, and Reference and User Services Quarterly. Errors in both citations and quotations were found in all three journals, although no statistically significant differences among journals were discovered. Citation errors of less than 10 percent were found for all three journals, while in total, 30.3 percent of quotations were judged to be questionable in some way. The paper includes recommendations for authors, editors and librarians. It also recommends further study of errors in quotations, which appear more troubling than those in citations

"On the Cusp": Liminality and Adolescence in Arthur Slade’s Dust, Bill Richardson’s After Hamelin, and Kit Pearson’s Awake and Dreaming

North American social, cultural, and developmental narratives frequently suggest that the successful conclusion of adolescence lies primarily in moving through and past it. Adolescence is thus represented as both transitional and transitory, a briefly liminal state meant to be resolved by a conclusive departure. However, recent Canadian young adult novels such as Arthur Slade’s Dust (2001), Bill Richardson’s After Hamelin (2000), and Kit Pearson’s Awake and Dreaming (1996) challenge these assumptions by depicting adolescent protagonists who find their identity and their greatest strength in their liminality. The successful adolescents in these novels possess what we might call a transliminal consciousness, a state of mind that allows them to move deftly between the ontologically contradictory states of fantasy and reality. They use the creative and generative potential of dream-space to either create a coherent family or preserve a fragmented family

Library as Showcase: Reflections on a Roundtable Discussion

Based on a roundtable discussion at ACRL 2015, this article explores the benefits and challenges of showcasing and celebrating the creative output of our communities. Such ventures serve the dual purpose of highlighting the contributions of our students, faculty, staff and alumni, while establishing the library as a centre for collaboration and cultural enrichment