Teaching
My teaching activities are centered in the graduate programs in library science: the Master of Library and Information Science Program, and the PhD Program in Library and Information Science. I regularly teach our core course in Information Organization, Curation and Access, as well as advanced courses in bibliographic description, classification, and indexing. I also teach courses in the Media, Information and Technoculture Program, including the first-year foundations course and a second-year course on information system development called "Planet Google."
Research Interests
My primary research area is typically called "knowledge organization": a field that is active in many countries around the world, and which deals with the various approaches, old and new, that individuals, organizations, libraries and governments organize information, and the underlying theories, technologies and cultural assumptions that determine these approaches. I have published in the area of semantic markup and the Semantic Web; I have also published on information organization problems and practices in queer information environments. I am currently completing a SSHRC-funded research project on knowledge organization principles as they apply to individuals and communities engaged in dementia care.