FIMS at Western University

Faculty News

• The hidden world that can make you feel seen: how cataloguing creates community

  The catalogue reform work of researcher B.M. Watson is shaped by personal experience.

• Western Indigenous Student Fellowship recipients champion representation in library science, archival research

  Indigenous Student Fellows Olivia Couchie and Savannah Simon (also FIMS MLIS students) are working with Western Libraries to continue efforts to decolonize information.

• What Gets Lost in Translation? Building a multi-lingual Homosaurus

  With support from SSHRC and Western, researcher Bri Watson is transforming how LGBTQ+ knowledge is understood by expanding critical terminology infrastructure across languages and communities.

• Mary Ann Mavrinac named winner of the 2026 FIMS Alumni Award of Excellence

  Mary Ann Mavrinac, MLS'84, retired as Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of the University of Rochester Libraries in 2022.