Coronavirus pandemic has caused major changes in peoples’ personal and social lives. The psychological effects have been substantial because it has affected the ways people live, work, and even socialize. It has also become major discussions on social media platforms as...

Chest CT is being more widely used as a diagnostic test for COVID-19 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-related lung disease. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the ability to assist in the rapid assessment of CT scans for COVID-19 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome finding...

Objectives: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese and non-Chinese Canadians exhibited differential support for public mask use, which may have implications for public health and interethnic relations. Such differences were primarily attributed to variations in ethnic ...

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, NEOS libraries suddenly had to work out how to serve their clients in a radically changed world, and during reopening stages, and then the second and third waves, they had to adapt rapidly again. Via the NEOS Access Services Committee, cr...

Rural access to high-speed broadband services have been an ongoing concern for Canadians, and this situation has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic (CBC News 2020; Toronto Star 2020). Despite ongoing efforts to improve rural connectivity, access to high-speed bro...

AHS’s Knowledge Resource Service sought to understand the use and value of its 6 geographically dispersed libraries, to inform future strategic planning. Under normal circumstances, gate counts and exit interviews would be used to gather information from library users r...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the harmful effects of misinformation and disinformation, from issues around mask-wearing and physical distancing to vaccine hesitancy. Many academic librarians teach library users how to evaluate information. Checklists such as the CRAAP...

Although the COVID-19 pandemic brought uncertainty, this project uses a mixed-method research design to study the ways people thrive during a pandemic. Two hundred and five participants, ages 18 to 83 years, completed an online survey with 102 quantitative questions con...

More contagious virus variants plunge parts of Canada into the third wave of the pandemic which likely contributes to rising mental health difficulties. It is speculated that the fourth wave of the pandemic is going to be a mental health wave which will be sustained for...