FIMS Profile

Dr. Grant Campbell (He/Him)
Associate Professor

FIMS & Nursing Building Room 4083
Phone: 519-661-2111 x88483

University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
Fax: 519-661-3506
gcampbel@uwo.ca
  • About Me

  • Courses Taught

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.


DIGICOMM 3203 Search and Discovery 2014 Winter LIS 502 Organization of Information 2007 Fall , 2005 Fall , 2005 Winter , 2004 Winter , 2003 Fall , 2002 Fall , 2002 Winter , 2001 Fall (2 sections) , 2001 Winter , 2000 Fall , 2000 Winter , 1999 Fall , 1999 Winter , 1998 Fall LIS 545 Descriptive Cataloguing Theory and Practice 2008 Winter , 2006 Winter , 2004 Winter , 2003 Winter , 2001 Fall , 2001 Winter , 2000 Winter , 1999 Winter LIS 558 Database Management Systems and Programming 1999 Fall LIS 593 Classification and Indexing 2004 Fall , 2002 Fall , 1999 Fall , 1998 Fall LIS 726 Special Topic: Markup and Metadata 2004 Fall LIS 809 Advanced Research Methods 2007 Fall LIS 9002 Information Organization, Curation and Access 2024 Winter , 2023 Fall , 2021 Summer , 2019 Fall , 2018 Fall , 2017 Fall , 2016 Fall , 2015 Fall , 2014 Fall , 2013 Fall , 2012 Fall , 2011 Fall , 2010 Fall , 2009 Fall , 2008 Fall (2 sections) LIS 9200 Descriptive Cataloguing Theory and Practice 2024 Winter , 2022 Winter , 2020 Fall , 2018 Fall , 2016 Fall , 2016 Winter , 2014 Winter , 2013 Winter , 2012 Winter , 2011 Winter , 2010 Winter , 2009 Winter LIS 9201 Classification and Indexing 2023 Fall , 2020 Winter LIS 9315 Collection Management 2021 Fall LIS 9725 Markup and Metadata 2010 Fall , 2010 Winter LIS 9800 Introduction to Doctoral-Level Scholarship in Library and Information Science 2019 Winter , 2018 Fall , 2018 Winter , 2017 Fall LIS 9809 Advanced Research Methods 2008 Fall LIS 9842 An Introduction to Critical Theory in Library and Information Science 2017 Winter , 2015 Fall , 2014 Fall , 2013 Fall MIT 026 Introduction to Information Retrieval 2006 Winter , 2005 Fall , 2005 Winter MIT 1025 First Year Foundations 2021 Winter , 2019 Fall MIT 2157 Planet Google: Big Data and Information Society 2019 Winter , 2018 Winter , 2017 Fall , 2016 Winter , 2015 Winter MIT 2402 Next Generation Web 2011 Winter , 2009 Fall MIT 256 The Next Generation Web 2008 Winter MIT 3114 Search and Discovery 2013 Winter MIT 3661 Search and Discovery 2011 Fall