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Denis Lacroix

Romance Languages Librarian

University of Alberta Libraries
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
1-01 Rutherford Library, South
Edmonton AB  Canada
T6G 2J4

780.492.1412 phone
780.492.5083 fax
denis.lacroix@ualberta.ca

What I Do:

  • Reference, collection management, instruction for French, Spanish, Latin American studies, Italian, and Portuguese.
  • Liaison Librarian for French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin American studies (including the history of the relevant countries) 
  • Web guide development
  • Information Literacy
  • HSS Instruction Librarian

Presentations and Publications:

  • Sathya Rao, Denis Lacroix. « Histoires de pionniers français dans l’Ouest canadien : le cas d’Un héros malgré lui de Marcel Durieux. » Voix Plurielles 8.2 (2011) : 65-78. Web. http://www.brocku.ca/brockreview/index.php/voixplurielles/article/view/396
  • Sathya Rao and Denis Lacroix. “ Mémoire d’immigrés français dans l’Ouest canadien.” Mémoire, diasporas et formes du roman francophone contemporain 29-30 avril, 1er mai 2011 Université de Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Conference Presentation.

  • Mobile ARS. Poster with Christina Hwang, Angie Mandeville, and Tatiana Usova at the 2011 Canadian Library Association National Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

  • Review of Atlante della letteratura italiana. Volume primo: Dalle origini al Rinascimento A cura di Amedeo De Vincentiis. By Luzzatto, Sergio and Gabriele Pedullà eds. in WESS Newsletter. 34.2 (Spring 2011). Web. 19 January 2012. http://wessweb.info/index.php/2011_Spring_-_New_Publications_of_Note

  • Review of Diccionario razonado de la literatura y la crítica argentinas (Siglo XX) Tomo I: A-G.. by Carbone, Rocco and Marcela Croce, eds. in WESS Newsletter. 34.2 (Spring 2011). Web. 19 January 2012. http://wessweb.info/index.php/2011_Spring_-_New_Publications_of_Note

  • "Why Didn't I Know This Before: ." Information Literacy: Case Studies and Practices.  Canadian Library Association 2010 National Conference and Trade Show. Edmonton, Alberta. http://www.cla.ca/conference/2010/documents/presentations/C20-InformationLiteracy.pdf (June 3rd 2010)

  • "Pearl Growing: Iberian and Latin American treasures in the University of Alberta Libraries' Collections." LASA 2009 (the XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/members/congress-papers/lasa2009/files/LacroixDenis.pdf.

  • "Branching Out: Internationalization and Academic Librarianship" 2009 Saskatchewan Libraries Conference. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

  • "Pearl Growing: Iberian and Latin American treasures in the University of Alberta Libraries' Collections."  Descubriendo tesoros: colecciones ibero y latinoamericanas en bibliotecas academicas y de investigacion del Canada.  Asociacion canadiense de hispanistas.  Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress 2007.  University of Saskatchewan. (May 27, 2007).
  • Interview with Dr. Hugo de Burgos.  Conociendo a nuestra gente. WorldFM (101.7), Edmonton, Alberta.  June 15, 2006 at 13:00.
  • Panel Moderator for "Crossing Borders: Latin America and Canadian University Libraries."  Crossing Borders, Latin American Migrations: Collections and Services for/from New Library Users.  SALALM. (March 21, 2006) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
  • "Canadian Language Librarians' Blog."  Feliciter. 52.3 (2006).
  • "Dictionnaire des noms de familles et noms de lieux du midi de la France" in Reference Reviews Europe Annual
  • "Dictionnaire des prenoms" in Reference Reviews Europe Annual
  • Blog for Canadian Language Librarians http://blogs.library.ualberta.ca/cll/  
  • "Free, Fee or Flee: Collections Practices Relating to Free Resources." Collections 2005: The Changing Collections Environment. Canadian Library Association Collections Pre-Conference. Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, June 15, 2005. Co-presented with Kathy Carter and Geoff Harder.
  • "Librarians with Guns: Guadalajara's Military Public Library." Feliciter. 51.1 (2005).
  • Semana cervantina exhibits in Bruce Peel Special Collections Library and in the foyer of Rutherford South
  • Lacroix, Denis. "The Globe-trotting Librarian: Conferences and Book Fairs from Mexico to France." APLUA Conference Colleagues. University of Alberta, Edmonton. 8 April 2004.
  • Colter, Jan, Denise Koufogiannakis, and Denis Lacroix. "PDA's in the Humanities and Social Sciences." Spring Training 2004. University of Alberta, Edmonton. 3 May 2004.
  • Lacroix, Denis. "The Globe-trotting Librarian: Conferences and Book Fairs from Mexico to France." Brown Bag Presentations. University of Alberta, Edmonton. 3 June 2004.
  • Lacroix, Denis. "Rapporteur's Report on Panel IV: Women Affecting Social and Political Change." SALALM Newsletter. (August 2004) 32.1: 177-178.
  • Lacroix, Denis. "Parisian Migrations: A Report of the Western European Studies Section's Paris Conference." College & Research Libraries News. (July/August 2004) 65.7: 385-386. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/july04/migrations.htm  
  • Lacroix, Denis. "Le Prix Goncourt 2004." Lettre mensuelle de l'UFE. (November) 4. http://www.telusplanet.net/public/infotel/ufe/lettreUFE4.pdf
  • Lacroix, Denis. "La Base de donnees LegiFrance." Lettre mensuelle de l'UFE. (October) 3.
  • Lacroix, Denis. Guest Presentation for LIS 503. November 12th 2003.
  • Amoros i Fontanals, Joan and Gloria Pirez-Salmerin. "What are we as librarians lacking, in order to be able to communicate with municipal politicians." World Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA General Conference and Council. Denis Lacroix trans. May 2003. http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/060e_trans-Fontanals_Salmeron.pdf.  
  • Lacroix, Denis. "French Librarianship in the Twenty-First Century: A Novel Experience." Professional Development Day. School of Library and Information Studies. February 7 2003.
  • Lacroix, Denis. Didacticiel d'expressions auvergnates: Un survol du paysage linguistique francophone d'Auvergne. 20 Nov. 2002. Faculte Saint-Jean, U of Alberta. www.pomme.ualberta.ca/denis/.  
  • Lacroix, Denis. "SLIS Continuing Student Spends Summer in Troyes." LISAA News. Dec. 2002: 9.
  • Canadian Association for Information Science / L'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information. Trans. Denis Lacroix . 2 Jan. 2002. Canadian Association for Information Science, U of Alberta. 3 Jan 2002 http://www.cais-acsi.ca.

Education:

  • MLIS (University of Alberta 2003)
  • BEd (University of Saskatchewan 1997)
  • Level 6 Diploma in Spanish language & culture (Colegio Garcia Lorca in Salamanca, Spain, 1995)
  • BA double honours in French & Spanish (University of Saskatchewan 1994)
  • Courses in translation (College universitaire de Saint-Boniface)
  • Courses in vocational agriculture (University of Saskatchewan)

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Last updated: 6 February 2012