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The “Bibliographic Transition” programme launched by the Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur (ABES) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is intended to modify the rules of bibliographic description in order to present catalogue data on the Web and to respond to new uses. This reorientation of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model, initiated because of emerging digital uses, leads libraries into a maze of changes (new cataloguing rules, the acquisition of a new integrated library system, an interface for consulting online public access catalogues [OPAC], reliance on institutional Web services) that they will have to deal with locally, because these changes are part of the overall positioning strategies of the two national agencies regarding the open data phenomenon. The programme suggests that the presentation of data on the Web would be difficult, if not impossible, without using the French cataloguing practices. However, since 1997, many Web technologies and cataloguing processes have matured and the initiatives led by OCLC and ABES show that the transcription of structure and data from catalogues to the Web data has been possible for several years. However, municipal libraries, which are generally attentive to their users and anxious to improve their services, have not yet succeeded in mastering the technological evolution intended to support the probable digital uses that have yet to be identified.

Archives are more-than-human spaces, and scholars are increasingly exploring how traditional archival material can be used to understand the historical lives of animals. There are traces of animals in any archives because humans do not exist in isolation and have historically been ecologically and socially entangled with other species. There is, however, a great deal of scope to develop innovative methods for telling animals' histories in ways that treat them as subjects, not objects. Using my PhD research into the historical problematization of cows in Kingston, Ontario, between 1838 and 1938, this article charts some of the methods I developed to better position historical animals as experiential subjects in analyses of the past. More specifically, I focus on how I found traces of cows in the Queen's University Archives by looking at a range of municipal records, including city assessments and health documents. I also explain how I conducted a multispecies discourse analysis of those traces by using contemporary knowledge about the psychology and physiology of cows, employing map-making techniques, and crafting speculative vignettes. I conclude that tracing animals in municipal records, being sensitive to contemporary knowledge about them, and making use of creative methodological tools to visibilize their spatial and social worlds is both academically interesting and politically significant. These methods challenge the anthropomorphism typical of historical and urban analyses, consequently creating openings for different ways of telling stories.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reading as a cultural practice was deeply woven into daily life and informed critical aspects of society. However, scholars often lament the lack of evidence available to reconstruct historical audiences of popular culture, and thus to understand how these texts shaped readers, and ultimately, the broader ideologies of the time. Reader Worlds is a research-creation project which examines how locative media can fill this gap. Converging the embodied storytelling capacities of locative media and the evocative letters published in the reader departments of the pulp Western Story Magazine during the 1920s, this paper and its corresponding virtual tour explore how immersive technologies offer layered meaning to the narratives of historical readers.

This essay uses a mixed-methods approach combining scoping review, thematic qualitative analysis, and case study methodologies to identify relationships between art and political advocacy in the context of the AIDS epidemic. Thirty-four relevant articles were found through a comprehensive literature search focused on social scientific analyses. Three key themes were identified: addressing negative stereotypes; the importance of education; and giving voice to individuals affected by HIV. The significance of iconic artist Keith Haring and two important artworks related to HIV advocacy—the Keiskamma Altarpiece and the Ribbon Project—are discussed, with lessons distilled for the role that art can play in political advocacy on global health issues more broadly.

Keywords: AIDS movement, art as advocacy, Keith Haring, the Ribbon Project, Keiskamma Altarpiece, AIDS movement, art as advocacy, Keith Haring, the Ribbon Project, Keiskamma Altarpiece, Mouvement contre le Sida, l'art comme plaidoyer, Keith Haring, le Ribbon Project, le Retable de Keiskamma

Translating multiword terms can pose problems at different levels. First, they need to be correctly identified and understood in the source text with a view to translating them. However, the answer to these questions cannot always be found in terminological resources such as dictionaries or databases. Therefore, translators must use other information-rich resources such as corpora. In order to make the most of them, the diverse corpus query techniques available in current corpus analysis tools must be mastered. However, these techniques are often unknown, which results in the reluctance of many translators to use corpora (Bowker 2004; Gallego-Hernández 2015; Loock 2016). This paper presents a step-by-step protocol that facilitates the comprehension and translation of multiword terms by means of parallel and comparable corpora. The procedure is illustrated with English multiword terms, which are translated into French and Spanish.

Keywords: terme complexe, traduction spécialisée, ressource terminologique, corpus parallèle, corpus comparable, multiword term, specialized translation, terminological resource, parallel corpus, comparable corpus, término compuesto, traducción especializada, recurso terminológico, corpus paralelo, corpus comparable

This article describes a multiple case study that investigated the interaction of navigation, evaluation and integration competencies within a process leading to the comprehension of online informations during the realization of an information literacy task by 6th grade readers. In combining direct interviews, think-aloud protocol, free interviews of comprehension verbalization and semi-directed retrospective interviews, this study allows the induction of an autoregulated mobilization of the competencies while learning from multimodal and non-linear informations consulted online. It also leads to the hypothesis of five online reader's profiles.

Keywords: littératie informationnelle en ligne, multimodalité, compréhension, étude de cas multiples, lecteur·rices internautes de 6 année, online information literacy, multimodality, comprehension, multiple case study, 6 grade online readers

Anchored in an instrumental epistemology and clinical didactics, this study analyzes the learning practices of two female students enrolled in a distance learning program within a Learning Management System (LMS) that integrates GENeSPRIT, a private workspace generator, allowing them to personalize the management of their personal learning environment (PLE). The results show that these two participants use various types of formal and/o*r informal resources in their learning practices without relying on GENeSPRIT. This finding highlights the importance of taking the learner's pre-existing digital skills into consideration when designing an LMS to better foster autonomy and engagement in the learning process.

Keywords: Déjà-là numérique, approche instrumentale, didactique clinique, environnement numérique d'apprentissage adaptatif, formation à distance, Pre-existing digital skills, instrumental approach, clinical didactics, adaptive digital learning environment, distance learning

This article synthetizes an applied research project that aims to develop iconographic analysis skills through the use of multimodal literacy in 2th grade high school students in preparation for the history unique test in 4th grade. The teacher gives himself a two-year perspective in order to develop in his students their ability to read images, one of the main weaknesses noted in 4th grade. The project has co-constructed several teaching and learning interventions through the school year soliciting different analogue and digital teaching and learning media (historical comics, web application for creating comics, etc.). In this article, this project is presented in the form of the 4Ps (portrait of the environment, co-creation process, project and production) to then identify the central contributions of the project with regard to three elements: skills in LMM, skills and declarative knowledge of the history and citizen education and the digital skill.

Keywords: littératie médiatique multimodale, secondaire (2e), bande dessinée, histoire, iconographie, multimodal literacy, high school, social sciences, comic strip, iconographic