Librarians need to understand the needs and abilities of differently abled patrons, and anyone responsible for hiring and managing librarians must know how to provide an equitable environment. This book serves as an educational resource for both groups.
Understanding the needs and abilities of patrons who are differently abled increases librarians’ ability to serve them from childhood through adulthood. While some librarians are fortunate to have had coursework to help them understand the needs and abilities of the differently abled, many have had little experience working with this diverse group. In addition, many persons who are differently abled are—or would like to become—librarians.
Differing Abilities and the Library helps readers understand the challenges faced by people who are differently abled, both as patrons and as information professionals. Readers will learn to assess their library’s physical facilities, programming, staff, and continuing education to ensure that their libraries are prepared to include people of all abilities. Inclusive programming and collection development suggestions will help librarians to meet the needs of patrons and colleagues with mobility and dexterity problems, learning differences, hearing and vision limitations, sensory and cognitive challenges, autism, and more. Additional information is included about assistive and adaptive technologies and web accessibility. Librarians will value this accessible and important book as they strive for equity and inclusivity. -- From publisher
Booze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing substances have been part of human society for millennia. Pleasure and Panic reveals how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption have always been deeply embedded in cultural fears and social, political, and economic disparities. Contributors to this collection explore how drugs and alcohol intersect with diverse histories, including gender, medicine, popular culture, and business. Pleasure and Panic brings a dispassionate voice to current debates about liberalizing drug and alcohol laws and challenges existing ideas about how to deal with the so-called problems of drug and alcohol use. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
The transgressive woman: gender, class, alcohol, and drugs in Canada from 1850 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh -- "To find out the best men and to try to get them in": Women, temperance, and politics in Manchester, 1873-1919 / Cynthia Belaskie -- Youth, drugs, and surveillance at Manseau's Woodstock Pop Festival / Eric Fillion -- John Lennon, the Le Dain Commission, and the rise of the celebrity activist / Greg Marquis -- Manhood, drink, and the "medical heresy" of US Army surgeon James Mann (1812-16) / Renée Lafferty-Salhany -- Medicinal purposes: pharmacists, professionalism, and liquor laws in victorian Ontario / Dan Malleck -- A new perspective on harm reduction: George Peters and the Chicago LSD rescue service / Chris Elcock -- Flogging a dead horse? Adulteration and brewing in nineteenth-century England / Jonathan Reinarz -- Charlie Wing and the Alberta Liquor Control Board: The story of the first Chinese-Canadian hotel licensee in Post-prohibition Alberta / Sarah E. Hamill -- The rise of the "Big Three": The emergence of a Canadian brewing oligopoly, 1945-62 / Matthew J. Bellamy.
Part I: Creative library culture -- 1. Creativity is not a superpower -- 2. Active learning and play -- 3. Creativity and team-building -- 4. Engagement and partnerships -- 5. Assessment -- Part II: Ideas in action -- 6. Making it happen -- 7. Lego -- 8. The Bubbler -- 9. Zines -- 10. Button-Making -- 11. Rutgers art library exhibition spaces -- 12. Experimentation station -- 13. Faculty writing retreats -- 14. Urban sketching.
In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita cigarette consumption rose steadily in the 1960s and 1970s. In Cigarette Nation, Daniel Robinson examines the vibrant and contentious history of smoking to discover why Canadians continued to light up despite the publicized health risks. Highlighting the prolific marketing and advertising practices that helped make smoking a staple of everyday life, Robinson explores socio-cultural aspects of cigarette use from the 1930s to the 1950s and recounts the views and actions of tobacco executives, government officials, and Canadian smokers as they responded to mounting evidence that cigarette use was harmful. The persistence of smoking owes to such factors as product development, marketing and retailing innovation, public relations, sponsored science, and government inaction. Domestic and international tobacco firms worked to furnish Canadian smokers with hope and doubt - hope in the form of reassuring marketing, as seen with light and mild cigarette brands, and doubt by means of disinformation campaigns attacking medical research and press accounts that aligned cigarettes with serious disease. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including thousands of industry records released during a landmark tobacco class-action trial in 2015, Cigarette Nation documents in rich detail the history of one of Canada's foremost public health issues. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Depression-era cigarette marketing and smoking culture -- The gift of wartime cigarettes -- The incomparable cigarette -- Taxes, public smoking, and lung cancer -- Hope and doubt -- Marketing bonanza -- The view from Ottawa.
Pertains to the Three Sisters Along Valley Wildlife Corridor and it's provincial deliniation on the Three Sisters Mountain Village Properties and how the two affect each other, with a history of the wildlife corridor, scientific evidence, legalities, municipal involvement, community involvement and recommedations to improve corridor deliniation and functionality with calls to action
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In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.4, December 2020
In August 2016, a group of about 40 residents as well as a couple of county councillors met at the Eagle Valley Community Hall to discuss the process of creating a new area structure plan under the oversight of a steering committee. The result of that meeting was a consensus to create a working group to provide the county with input as well as to help officials “understand who we are as a community, the commitment that we have to the land we live on, and our heritage, cultural and social resources that are in the community,”.Five volunteers — Anne Macklin, Lynne Henry, Douglas McCullough, Bill Souster and Greif — formed the Eagle Valley Working Group, which is not affiliated with any recognized societies already in the region. Over the following six months, a questionnaire was formulated to glean information from the community’s residents. A summary of the survey’s results was then discussed during a meeting held at the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group’s office this past January. When the process started, a number of important stakeholders in terms of working relationships were identified, such as the oil and gas industry, social services including Greenwood Neighbourhood Place as well as the Town of Sundre. So following January’s meeting, the working group was tasked with preparing the legacy document. Included within its pages is information about Eagle Valley’s climate, oil and gas sector, geology, as well as infrastructure issues such as roads, wastewater, water, parks and recreation. A copy of the book, is available for sale at the Sundre Municipal Library.
(Summarized from Mountainview Today article - website)
File consists of a draft of "Banff National Park of Canada Management Plan" produced by Parks Canada and dated October 26, 2009. File also includes drafts of "Key Strategy" documents and an "Environmental Impact Assessment" for the regions of Jasper, Lake Louise, Banff, Yoho and Kootenay [Parks Can…
File consists of a draft of "Banff National Park of Canada Management Plan" produced by Parks Canada and dated October 26, 2009. File also includes drafts of "Key Strategy" documents and an "Environmental Impact Assessment" for the regions of Jasper, Lake Louise, Banff, Yoho and Kootenay [Parks Canada]. Contents pertain to natural resources, tourism, townsite development and other related issues within Canadian Rockies national parks.