As the younger generation of born digital library users and even well-established scholars rely increasingly on Google, or its new products Google Scholar and Google Book, for information resource discovery and access, libraries are finding it increasingly difficult to ensure…

This article describes the process whereby digitization of a journal is used to preserve and provide access to the contents on the World Wide Web. The journal chosen, The Canadian Architect and Builder, was the only professional architectural journal published…

An indepth look at the contextual development, raison d’etre and structural objectives of the McGill Program.

In the 19th century it was difficult for the growing number of medical practitioners in North America to access current medical literature. Various ways were suggested to solve this problem; one of them was the creation of physician-run medical library…

In November, 1942, the CBC broadcast a programme entitled "Canadian Unity and Quebec" across the national network. Set during the divisive background of the Conscription Crisis, this programme was a discussion between three Montrealers - John Humphrey, Hugh Macknnan, and…

Enzymatic processes fall between the two traditional categories of chemical and biological treatment systems since they involve chemical reactions based on the action of biological catalysts. A variety of enzymes from plants and microorganisms have been reported to play important…

An analytic model comprising the various moves in error correction sequences in second-language classrooms is developed & applied to a database of classroom interaction with a view to relating teachers' corrective feedback with students' responses. The corpus was generated from…

This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion & 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, & prompts on learner uptake & repair.…

This article presents a corpus analysis designed to determine the extent to which noun endings in French are reliable predictors of grammatical gender. A corpus of 9,961 nouns appearing in 'Le Robert Junior Illustre' was analysed according to noun endings,…

This article presents a comparative analysis of five quasi-experimental studies involving close to 1,200 students, ranging in age from 7 to 14, in 49 French immersion classrooms in Canada - a content-based instructional context where learners develop high levels of…