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Sculpting the Future: Planning for Libraries in Transformation
(Partnership: The Journal of Canadian Library and Information Practice and Research, 2013)
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Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library. Edited
by Joseph Janes. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow press. 2013. Print: 161 pp. 45.00
USD. ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8714-5 (pbk. : alk. paper); ...
Enhancing Cultural Capital: The Arts and Community Development in Winnipeg
(2005-09-17)
This research highlights the contribution that community-based arts organizations are making in Winnipeg ‘s inner city. The project reveals that there is not only a wealth of artistic and cultural resources in the inner ...
Defensive dispersal and the nuclear imperative in postwar planning: a study in the sociology of knowledge
(University of Winnipeg, 2001-05-01)
In the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final days of World War II, an urban planning concept known as 'defensive dispersal' came to be advocated by city planners, architects, atomic ...
Literature Review for Resource Conservation Manitoba’s “Safe, Active, Green and Easy Ways to School” Program (SAGE)
The purpose of this literature review is to examine the larger social, economic, psychological and health contexts in which Active and Safe Routes to Schools (A&SRTS) programs are situated, and to review the relevant policy ...
Student Housing Overview: Assessing Issues and Potential Options
(2005-09-01)
This report sets out for the administration
of the University of Winnipeg some of the
contexts, considerations and principles
necessary when undertaking any future
housing-oriented development. The report
provides ...
Seeing the Forest for the Trees on Mars: Locating the Ideology of the “Library of the Future”
(Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2017)
For many decades now library practitioners have been generating a vast literature concerned with the “library of the future.” While much of this literature may be classified according to its imperatives for radical versus ...
Looking Not on His Picture, but His Books: Two New Histories of Folger’s Quest for First Folios Shed Unintended Light on the Authorship Question
(Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, 2016-05)
A review of two recently-released books, The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays and Stephen Grant’s Collecting Shakespeare, both of which explore Henry and Emily Folgers’ shared obsession with collecting First Folios ...
Steinbach Public Transportation Study
(2006-01-01)
This document constitutes the final report for the Steinbach Transportation Project Steering
Committee (STPSC). This report includes a demographic profile of Steinbach; a literature review
dealing with many of the relevant ...
Winnipeg Site Implementation Final Report
(2014-09-26)
This report documents the implementation of the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s At Home/Chez Soi project in Winnipeg. It reports on the viewpoints and perspectives of the site’s stakeholders concerning the fidelity ...
Proceedings: Preventing Evictions and Managing Successful Tenancies
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2012-05-17)
On Nov.10 2011, the Institute of Urban Studies conducted a workshop on Managing for Successful Tenancies. The goal of this workshop was to develop an eviction prevention strategy for the Mental Health Commission of Canada's ...