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Faculty Research

Faculty members who teach in the Library and Information Science programs at Western are involved in a wide array of research projects and initiatives. Some of their work is featured here but browsing through the individual faculty profiles will provide a more complete picture.

Featured Research

Language & Information Technology Research Lab
LiTRL
The Canadian Repair Coalition
CanRepair
Homosaurus: An International LGBTQ+ Linked Data Vocabulary
Homosaurus

 

Useful + Beautiful
Useful + Beautiful
Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies
Starling Centre
Smoke Signals Archive
Smoke Signals Radio Show Archive

More Scholarly Work by Faculty

Below is a list of selected books written by LIS faculty.

Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of Subjects  The Usage and Impact of ICTS During the COVID-19 Pandemic  Misinformation and Disinformation: Detecting Fakes with the Eye and AI  Technology and Society: Social Networks, Power, and Inequality

 

Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community  Annal of Pornographie: How Porn Became Bad  Design of Visualizations for Human-Information Interaction  

For other lectures available from FIMS, visit the Western YouTube FIMS playlist.

Selected lectures:

Disability Art Activism & Institutional Critiques

March 19, 2025
Featuring Dr. Amanda Cachia, University of Houston and Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware, McMaster University.

Part of the Conversations on Access speaker series. Organized by Sarah Smith, Heather Hill and Juan Escobar-Lamanna.

Watch online

 

Impairment Theory and Disability Activism

November 2023
Featuring Jonathan Sterne, James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at McGill University and Ashton Forrest, master's candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Wester university.

Part of the Conversations on Access speaker series. Organized by Sarah Smith, Heather Hill and Juan Escobar-Lamanna.

Watch online

 

More information can be found about LIS faculty and their scholarly work and activities on their personal online profiles.

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