MLIS Full-Time Faculty

Ajiferuke, Isola.  BSc, MSc, U. Ibadan, Nigeria; MLIS, PhD, Western

  • Informetrics; Knowledge management; Information retrieval; Modelling and simulation of information systems.

Blackmore, Tim.  BA, MA, PhD, York

  • Cultural studies; Popular culture; Readers as teachers; Technology; Hegemonic forms; Narrative discourse; Science fiction; Animation; Film; Art.

Burkell, Jacquelyn.  BA, British Columbia; MA, PhD, Western

  • Role of cognition in information use; Decision making; Human-Computer interface design; Credibility assessment; Risk communication; Program evaluation.

Campbell, Grant.  BA, Toronto; MA, PhD, Queens; MISt., Toronto

  • Cataloguing; Subject analysis; Classification; Electronic text design; Metadata systems.

Dyer-Witheford, Nick.  BA, MA, PhD, Simon Fraser

  • Libraries in networked capitalism; Cyber-Marxism; Video and computer games.

Farber, Carole.  BA, PhD, British Columbia

  • Electronic sources and services; Serving remote learners and users; Images and issues of gender; Technology and librarians.

Frohmann, Bernd.  BA, MA, MLS, PhD, Toronto

  • Subject analysis; Philosophy of library and information science; Social studies of information; Documentation; Scientific documents.

Harris, Roma.  BA, British Columbia; MA, PhD, MPA, Western

  • Information seeking and use (especially in marginalized groups); Gender, status and control issues in the professions; Management.

Hill, Heather.  BA, Missouri–Kansas City; MA, PhD, Missouri–Columbia

  • Public libraries; Collection development; Ethics; Critical discourse analysis; Information policy; Rural libraries; Reference.

Johnson, Catherine (Kate).  BA, New Brunswick; MA, Dalhousie; MLS, PhD, Toronto.

  • Social capital; Social role of public libraries; Digital divide; Libraries in developing countries; Information seeking behaviour.

Leckie, Gloria.  BA, Windsor; MLS, MA, PhD, Western

  • Academic libraries; Public libraries; Cataloguing and classification; Scholarly communities; Information seeking practices; Professional issues; Research methods.

McKechnie, Lynne.  BA, Manitoba; MLS, Toronto; PhD, Western

  • Literature and library services for children and young adults; Public libraries; Reference; Readers advisory; Collection development; Library and information science history; Children and information policy; Everyday life information behaviour; Research methods (interviewing, observation, ethnography and other qualitative methods).

McKenzie, Pam.  BA, Toronto; MA, New Brunswick; MLIS, PhD, Western

  • Serving user needs; Information needs and seeking; Sources of information; Collection development; Health information resources; Research methods.

Neal, Diane.  BA, MS, PhD, University of North Texas

  • Information organization; Image and music retrieval; Web usability and interaction design; Information visualization; Technology in library settings; Health information; Database systems; Research methods.

Noon, Jennifer.  BSc(Hons.), Reading; MLIS, Western

  • Reference; Information retrieval; Bibliographic instruction; Science, medicine and technology.

Pyati, Ajit.  BA, UC Berkeley; MLIS, PhD, UCLA

  • Information society and policy; Globalization, migration, and ICTs; International library development; Critical information studies.

Quan-Haase, Anabel.  BS, MSc, Humboldt; PhD, Toronto

  • Internet studies; Information use; Computer-mediated communication.

 

Ross, Catherine.  MA, Toronto; BA, MLS, PhD, Western

  • Reference transaction; Readers’ advisory; Studies of readers; Research methods.

Rothbauer, Paulette.  BA, Toronto; MLIS, PhD, Western

  • Studies of readers and reading; Children's and young adult literature; Role of public libraries; Youth and information practices; LIS and sexual diversity studies.

Rubin, Victoria.  BA, Kharkov State, Ukraine; MA, PhD, Syracuse

  • Natural language processing (language technologies and applications; subtle text properties: writer's certainty, text credibility); Information retrieval (information extraction techniques); Categorization and classification (multi-lingual classification transfer); Data-mining; Multi-lingual information access; Sociolinguistics (language, culture, and society).

Sedig, Kamran.  BSc, Concordia, MSc, McGill; PhD, British Columbia

  • Information visualization; Human-computer interaction design; Visually-enhanced interactive thought-support tools; Design of learning and knowledge tools; Computer-aided thinking.

Spencer, David.  BA, MA, York; PhD, Toronto

  • Media history, in particular the history and theory of the evolution of technology as it impacts on news and information.

Trosow, Samuel.  BA, Pennsylvania State; Juris Doctor, Los Angeles; MPA, California State; LLM, Golden Gate; MLS, San Jose State; PhD, UCLA

  • Information policy; Intellectual property; Political economy of information; Resources in Law.

Vaughan, Liwen.  Dipl. Electronics, MSc, Shanghai; PhD, Western

  • Information retrieval; Database management systems; Research methods and statistics; Webometrics; Information systems.

Wathen, Nadine.  BA(Hons), Dalhousie; MA, PhD, Western; Post-doctoral Fellowship, McMaster

  • Health information seeking; family violence; Knowledge translation & exchange; Health information practices and health sciences librarianship; Qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Xiao, Lu.  BA, Hunan; MSc, Florida; PhD, Pennsylvania State

  • Groupware design for collaborative learning activities; Design for reflective thinking; Role of rationale awareness in group activities; Sustainability of technology growth in community groups; Informal learning infrastructure.