Thesis Titles
Oliphant, Tami (November 2010). The Information Practices of People Living with Depression: Constructing Credibility and Authority. (Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Ross)
Kosciejew, Marc (August 2010). Documenting Race and Ethnicity: The Documentary Construction of Racial and Ethnic Identities in Apartheid South Africa. (Supervisor: Dr. Bernd Frohmann)
Fast, Karl (February 2010). Human-Information Interaction for Digital Libraries: From Document Repositories to Knowledge Environments. (Supervisor: Dr. Kamran Sedig)
Gao, Yijun (December 2009). Gauging Public Interest from Server Logs, Surveys and Inlinks: A Multi-Method Approach to Analyze News Websites. (Supervisor: Dr. Liwen Vaughan)
Pecoskie, Jennifer (November 2009). The Solitary, Social, and 'Grafted Spaces' of Pleasure Reading: Exploring Reading Practices from the Experiences of Adult, Self-identified Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Readers and Book Club Members. (Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Ross)
Gerolami, Natasha (August 2009). The Architecture of a Virtual Library: A Deleuzian Approach to Library and Information Studies. (Supervisor: Dr. Nick Dyer-Witheford)
Kipp, Margaret (July 2009). Information Organisation Practices on the Web: Tagging and the Social Organisation of Information. (Supervisor: Dr. Grant Campbell)
Maina, Charles (July 2009). The Traditional Knowledge Protection Debate: Identifying and Listening to the Voices of Traditional Knowledge Holders. (Supervisor: Dr. Margaret Ann Wilkinson)
Veinot, Tiffany (February 2009). Social Capital and HIV/AIDS Information/ Help Exchange Networks in Rural Canada. (Supervisor: Dr. Roma Harris)
Peekhaus, Wilhelm (July 2008). Canada's Biotechnology Strategy: Struggles on the Knowledge Commons. (Supervisor: Dr. Nick Dyer-Witheford)
Lambert, Frank (February 2008). Rewriting the "Rules" of Online Networked Community Information Services: A Case Study of the mycommunityinfo.ca Model. (Supervisor: Dr. Liwen Vaughan)
Davies, Elisabeth (April 2007). Epistemic Practices of Theatre Production Professionals: An Activity Theory Approach. (Supervisor: Dr. Gloria Leckie)
Maskell, Cathy (March 2006). Consortia Activity in Academic Libraries: Anti-competitive or in the Public Good? (Supervisor: Dr. Margaret Ann Wilkinson)
Stevenson, Siobhan (August 2005). The Post-Fordist Public Library: From Carnegie to Gates. (Supervisors: Dr. Nick Dyer-Witheford and Dr. Catherine Ross)
Luyt, Brendan (December 2004). Political Legitimacy and the Idea of an Emerging Information Society in the South: A Case Study of the Philippines. (Supervisor: Dr. Bernd Frohmann)
Rothbauer, Paulette (June 2004). Finding and Creating Possibility: Reading in the Lives of Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Young Women. (Supervisor: Dr. Lynne McKechnie)
Wathen, Nadine (January 2004). The Pause in Menopause? What Informs Women’s Decisions to Discontinue Hormone Replacement Therapy. (Supervisor: Dr. Roma Harris)
Joyce, Steven (December 2003). The Discursive Construction of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Identity: How Symbolic Violence and Information Capital Mediate the Coming Out Process. (Supervisor: Dr. Gloria Leckie)
Carey, Robert (May 2003). Narrative and Information: An Ethnography of a Lupus Support Group. (Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Ross)
Holmes, Boyd (June 2002). The Domain of Information Science, with an Emphasis on Contributing Disciplines: 1973-1998. (Supervisors: Dr. Margaret Ann Wilkinson and Dr. Michael Nelson)
Kofmel, Kim (April 2002). Adult Readers of Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Qualitative Study of Reading Preference and Genre Perception. (Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Ross)
McKenzie, Pamela (April 2001). Negotiating Authoritative Knowledge: Information Practices Across a Life Transition. (Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Ross)
Given, Lisa (December 2000). The Social Construction of the 'Mature Student' Identity: Effects and Implications for Academic Information Behaviours. (Supervisor: Dr. Gloria Leckie)
Dorner, Daniel G. (January 2000). Determining Essential Services on the Canadian Information Highway: An Exploratory Study of the Public Policy Process. (Supervisor: Dr. Margaret Ann Wilkinson)
Downie, J. Stephen (September 1999). Evaluating a Simple Approach to Music Information Retrieval: Conceiving Melodic N-Grams as Text. (Supervisor: Dr. Michael Nelson)
Fulton, Crystal (March 1999). Telework: Change in Information Professionals' Work Through Alternate Work Design. (withheld from public use for one year) (Supervisor: Dr. Roma Harris)
Brown, Christine (December 1998). The Role of Computer-Mediated Communication in the Research Process of Music Scholars: An Exploratory Investigation. (Supervisor: Dr. Patricia Dewdney)
Dilevko, Juris (December 1998). As the Library Turns: Women, Technology, and Advertisements in the Wired World. (Supervisor: Dr. Roma Harris)
Pettigrew, Karen (December 1997). The Role of Community Health Nurses in Providing Information and Referral to the Elderly: A Study Based on Social Network Theory. (Supervisor: Dr. Patricia Dewdney)
Julien, Heidi (September 1997). How Does Information Help? The Search for Career-Related Information by Adolescents. (Supervisor: Dr. Gillian Michell)
Toms, Elaine G. (March 1997). Browsing Digital Information: Examining the 'Affordances' in the Interaction of User and Text. (Supervisors: Dr. Mark Kinnucan and Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Wicks, Donald A. (November 1996). The Information-Seeking Behaviour of Pastoral Clergy: A Study of the Interaction of Their Work Worlds and Work Roles. (Supervisor: Dr. Roma Harris)
McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.) (July 1996). Opening the "Preschoolers' Door to Learning": An Ethnographic Study of the Use of Public Libraries by Preschool Girls. (Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Ross)
Baker, Lynda M. (March 1994). The Information Needs and Information-Seeking Patterns of Women Coping With and Adjusting To Multiple Sclerosis. (Supervisor: Dr. Roma Harris)
Baron, Lisa (March 1994). The Effectiveness of Labelled, Typed Links as Cues in Hypertext Systems. (Supervisors: Dr. Mark Kinnucan and Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Wilkinson, Margaret Ann (August 1992). Impact of the Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 1987 Upon Affected Organizations. (Supervisors: Dr. Mark Kinnucan and Dr. David Flaherty)
Chu, Clara M. (July 1992). The Scholarly Process and the Nature of the Information Needs of the Literary Critic: A Descriptive Model. (Supervisor: Dr. Roma Harris)
Connor, Jennifer J. (July 1992). To Advocate, To Diffuse, and To Elevate: The Culture and Context of Medical Publishing in Canada, 1630 to 1920. (Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Ross)
Austin, Jill T. (July 1991). Influence of Cost Consciousness and Heuristic Approach on Online Search Performance. (Supervisor: Dr. Roma Harris)
Qiu, Liwen (June 1991). Probabilistic Models of Search State and Path Patterns in Hypertext Information Retrieval Systems. (Supervisor: Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Lundberg, Norma J. (December 1990). The Social Organization of Birth Control Information in Public Libraries. (Supervisor: Dr. Gillian Michell)
Lu, Xin (October 1990). An Application of Case Relations to Document Retrieval. (Supervisor: Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
MacDonald, Bertrum H. (August 1990). 'Public Knowledge': The Dissemination of Scientific Literature in Victorian Canada as Illustrated From the Geological and Agricultural Sciences. (Supervisor: Dr. Janet Fyfe)
Wolfram, Dietmar (August 1990). The Application of Informetrics to Information Retrieval Systems Design: A Simulation Study. (Supervisor: Dr. Michael J. Nelson)
Cano, Virginia (June 1990). Citation Life Cycle: Use of Citations Through Time. (Supervisor: Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Tiamiyu, Mutawakilu Adisa (December 1989). Factors Underlying the Use of Information Sources in Government Institutions in Nigeria. (Supervisor: Dr. Roma Harris)
Ajiferuke, Isola S.Y. (November 1988). A Probabilistic Model for the Distribution of Authorships and a Measure of the Degree of Research Collaboration. (Supervisor: Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Allen, Bryce L. (June 1988). Bibliographic and Text-Linguistic Schemata in the User-Intermediary Interaction . (Supervisor: Dr. Gillian Michell)
Beheshti, Jamshid (March 1987). Beyond Circulation Statistics: Patterns of Book Use by Undergraduate Students in an Academic Library. (Supervisor: Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Rees-Potter, Lorna Katherine (February 1987). A Bibliometric Analysis of Terminological and Conceptual Change in Sociology and Economics: With Application to the Design of Dynamic Thesaural Systems (Volumes 1 and 2). (Supervisor: Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Nicholls, Paul Travis (January 1987). The Lotka Hypothesis and Bibliographic Methodology. (Supervisor: Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Dewdney, Patricia H. (August 1986). The Effects of Training Reference Librarians in Interview Skills: A Field Experiment. (Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Ross)
Cummings, Stephen F. (July 1986). Angus McGill Mowat and the Development of Ontario Public Libraries, 1920-1960. (Supervisor: Dr. Janet Fyfe)
Lewis, DeeAnn Emmel (July 1984). Case Grammar and Functional Relations in Aboutness Recognition and Relevance Decision-Making in the Bibliographic Retrieval Environment. (Supervisor: Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Nwagha, Georgiana Kiente Ngeri (April 1983). Bibliographic Control in the Field of Agriculture in Nigeria - A Study of Demand and Availability. (Supervisor: Dr. William J. Cameron)
Deschatelets, Gilles H. (August 1982). Towards an Optimal Level of Participation of the Intermediary in the user-System Interface of Bibliographic Online Search Services (Volumes 1 and 2). (Supervisor: Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Nelson, Michael J. (November 1981). Probabilistic Models for the Simulation of Bibliographic Retrieval Systems. (Supervisor: Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Rao, Inna Kedage Ravichandra (February 1981). Document and User Distribution in Transaction Records of Canadian University Libraries. (Supervisor: Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)
Shepherd, Michael Alan (June 1978). The Colon Classification As a Basis for Automatic Full Text Retrieval. (Supervisor: Dr. Jean Tague-Sutcliffe)