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Heather Hill (She/Her)
Chair, MLIS Program
Associate Professor

FIMS & Nursing Building Room 4031
Phone: 519-661-2111 x88013

University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
Fax: 519-661-3506
hhill6@uwo.ca
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Overall, my research right now focuses on a justice lens. I'm trying to use my research to make the world a little bit of a better place. I have a history of researching around accessibility and disability as it relates to public libraries. As a brief overview, I have looked at how library websites talk about disability and accessibility, I have work looking at the literature in LIS related to disability, and I've looked at the accessibility of public library social media feeds.

I have some in progress work looking at fat phobia within library professions.

I have previously worked in areas that I call 'fringe' publishing. Fanfiction writings, fanfiction community, and self-publishing are all areas where I still have interest, but at a personal more than a research level. I have been particularly taken with a fanfiction of the video game The Last of Us called, Dirt. It is a story about what might have happened to Tommy and Joel after the outbreak and in the years before they got to the Boston QZ.

Selected publications related to current research agenda:

Hill, H. & Oswald, K. (2022) “May be a picture of a book and a dog”: Inaccessibility of public library social media feeds. The Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research.

Hill, H. (2021) A thematic analysis of library association policies on services to persons with disabilities. Journal of Documentation 77(6).

Hill, H. (2020) Ontario public library websites and the framing of disability. The Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. 15(2).

Hill, H. (2019). Opening the conversation: How Ontario public library websites frame disability. (Canadian Association of Information Science)

 

Hill. H. (2013). Ontario public libraries, accessibility, and justice: a capability approach.   (Canadian Association of Information Science).

 

Hill, H. (2013). Disability and accessibility in the library and information science literature: a content analysis. Library and Information Science Research 35(2), 137-142.


LIS 9003 Information Sources and Services 2024 Summer , 2023 Summer , 2022 Summer , 2021 Fall , 2020 Fall , 2019 Fall , 2019 Summer , 2018 Fall , 2018 Summer , 2017 Fall (2 sections) , 2017 Summer , 2016 Fall (2 sections) , 2016 Summer , 2015 Winter , 2014 Summer , 2014 Winter , 2013 Summer , 2012 Summer , 2011 Fall , 2011 Summer , 2010 Fall , 2010 Summer , 2009 Fall LIS 9315 Collection Management 2015 Winter , 2013 Summer , 2012 Summer , 2011 Fall , 2011 Summer , 2010 Summer , 2009 Fall LIS 9325 Accessibility and Information Environments 2024 Summer , 2023 Summer , 2022 Summer , 2021 Summer , 2020 Summer , 2019 Summer LIS 9370 Special Topic: Introduction to Indigenizing and Decolonizing LIS 2021 Winter LIS 9377 Special Topic: Information in Pandemics and Disasters 2020 Summer LIS 9610 Public Libraries 2018 Summer , 2017 Summer , 2016 Summer , 2014 Summer , 2014 Winter LIS 9801 Advanced Research Methods 1 2022 Fall , 2021 Fall , 2020 Fall , 2019 Fall , 2018 Fall LIS 9864 Notions of Power and Information 2010 Fall

Burrows, Claire. Accessibility And Academic Libraries: A Comparative Case Study
Phd in Library and Information Science, March 2019
Supervisor: Heather Hill