Faculty News

• Fighting Doug Ford's budget cuts to Ontario libraries

  By Samuel Trosow, The Conversation, May 13, 2019: Ontario's Doug Ford government recently tabled a budget imposing substantial cuts to the Southern Ontario Library Service (SOLS) and Ontario Library Service North (OLSN).

• Digging With a Small Shovel: Investigative Reporting in Shrinking Newsrooms

  Presented by award-winning journalist Randy Richmond (The London Free Press). Richmond is a Michener award-recipient and a five-time NNA nominee.

• LIS researcher adds new voice to STEM-dominated institute

  Michael Ridley is used to being an outlier. The doctoral student embarked on his PhD in Library & Information Science after he'd retired as a professional librarian and moved on from his role as the Chief Librarian and Chief Information Officer for the University of Guelph.

• Interdisciplinary connections forged at Research Day

  Graduate students and professors from the faculties of Information and Media Studies (FIMS), Music, and Law at Western discovered interdisciplinary connections at a research day held March 22 at Western Law.