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This paper explores the past, present, and future of library marketing in the United States. While its foundations were laid more than a century ago, not every library is up-to-speed in its knowledge or practice. There are “Haves” with plenty of space, staff, and money, and “Have Nots” that lack some necessities. In the midst of this uneven landscape, the author discusses the organizations and publications that support it, details the trends in four categories, and lists national campaigns and awards. Special attention is paid to the continuing challenges and the possible future scenarios.

On March 31st, 2005 died at the age of 41, Theresa Marie (Terri) Schiavo. She was in coma since February 25th, 1990. The demand of her husband to stop the artificial nutrition and hydration provoked an unprecedented public debate and a long judicial process ; at the end, the court agreed at the request of the husband. The catholic doctrine regarding those end of life questions was subject to virulent discussion. It is in this context that this paper will analyse the American theological discussion and the recent roman interventions regarding artificial nutrition and hydration for patients in permanent vegetative state.

Numerous articles in psychology show that the sum of the views individuals have of their past, present, and future (their time perspective) influences their cognitions and behaviors. We extend these findings to the field of entrepreneurship and suggest that time perspective can influence entrepreneurs' alertness (TP acting as a potential determinant prior to alertness). We propose a theoretical framework to better understand the role time perspective can play in key aspects of entrepreneurship such as entrepreneurial alertness, i.e., the capacity for an entrepreneur to see opportunities missed by others. The main objective of our research contribution is to build theoretical propositions and a model interrelating time perspective according to Zimbardo and Boyd (1999) and entrepreneurial alertness according to Tang, Kacmar and Busenitz (2012). Linking both concepts constitutes the main contribution. A discussion, implications, limitations and directions for future research are also introduced.

Keywords: Temps, Opportunité, Cognition, Vigilance, Entrepreneuriat, Time, Opportunity, Cognition, Alertness, Entrepreneurship, Tiempo, Oportunidad, Cognición, Vigilancia, Empresariado

With the slogan “Your digital work space is moving into a new era!”, project 1142, entitled “Individual Repertory Service and Sharing of Files” of the University of Montreal, was launched on April 4, 2017. It was established by the Information Technologies division and undertaken in collaboration with the Records Management and Archives Division (DGDA) of the University, with a double aim: on the one hand, to offer convivial new and efficient digital work spaces to personnel (the DocUM unit and the user space OneDrive Enterprise) and, on the other hand, to structure the DocUM unit space with the objective of facilitating management by means of the Official Classification System. This article discusses the different stages in the realization of the project and the numerous challenges that had to be overcome to discover solutions to the problems related to the management of unstructured University of Montreal data.

In 2007, the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act came into force to protect, with a few exceptions, all federal public servants in Canada. This law quickly became outdated and ineffective, as it is inadequate to effectively guarantee the confidentiality of the identity of the whistleblowers and to effectively protect them against retaliation. Canadian law is also inefficient compared to the law of international counterparts. Faced with the inaction of the Canadian government to make the necessary amendments to this act, an opposition member took the initiative, in June 2022, to present Bill C-290, to amend the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act and to amend to the Conflict of Interest Act. This bill was passed in the House of Commons on January 31, 2024 and is expected to come into force by the end of 2024. This article sets out firstly the various provisions of the 2007 Act; secondly, the criticisms to which it has been subject; and thirdly, the various modifications that the bill proposes to the current act. Although this bill includes significant improvements to the disclosure and protection of whistleblowers, there still remains many shortcomings that we will analyze.

Keywords: Public integrity, Intégrité publique, public servants, fonctionnaires, reprehensible acts, actes répréhensifs, lanceurs d'alerte, whistleblowers, Canada, Canada