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.