Library, Archival and Information Studies

Library, Archival and Information Studies provides an interdisciplinary, high-demand educational experience in which students gain rich expertise suited to hybrid library/archives environments and cultural institutions. Area of study includes First Nations Curriculum Concentrations; Data services; Librarianship; Community and culture; Information interaction and design; Information sources and services; Digital resource management; Information analysis and management; Archives and preservation; Records management; information policy.

Name Research Interests
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad Deep Learning; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Computational Linguistics; Social Media Mining; Arabic; Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Social Media Mining, Arabic
Bullard, Julia classification systems; subject indexing; Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.); Information Systems; metadata; Classification systems, subject indexing, Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.), Information Systems, Metadata
Douglas, Jennifer Personal recordkeeping and archives; Community archives; Person-centred archival theory and practices; Grief and recordkeeping and archives; Emotions and recordkeeping and archives; Archival arrangement and description; Personal recordkeeping and archives, Community archives, Person-centred archival theory and practices, Grief and recordkeeping and archives, Emotions and recordkeeping and archives, Archival arrangement and description
Kwakkel, Erik Codicology; History of Libraries; History of the Book; Medieval Manuscripts; Paleography; History of Reading; Codicology, History of Libraries, History of the Book, Medieval Manuscripts, Paleography, History of Reading
Lemieux, Victoria Blockchain technology and Ecosystems; Trust and Records; Privacy; security; Risk management; Transparency and the public interest (in public sector and financial contexts); Blockchain technology and Ecosystems, Trust and Records, Privacy, Security, Risk management, Transparency and the public interest (in public sector and financial contexts)
Meyers, Eric youth online behavior, information seeking, web search, libraries, public libraries, school libraries, academic libraries, learning, virtual worlds, collaboration, social networks, new media, digital literacy, information literacy
Nathan, Lisa climate change adaptation; Indigenous Information Studies; Information Ethics & Policy; Climate Change Adaptation, Indigenous Information Studies, Information Ethics & Policy
O'Brien, Heather user engagement; user experience; community engagement; information seeking and retrieval; information access; cognitive processes related to information searching and evaluation; health technologies; user engagement, user experience, community engagement, information seeking and retrieval, information access, cognitive processes related to information searching and evaluation, health technologies
Shaffer, Elizabeth intersections of race, gender, and digital infrastructures and technologies; intersections of race, gender, and digital infrastructures and technologies
Sinnamon, Luanne Silvia human information interaction; Information Systems; information retrieval; New Technology and Social Impacts; Human information interaction, Information Systems, Information retrieval, New Technology and Social Impacts
Turner, Hannah Archival, repository and related studies; Library science and information studies; cataloguing and classification; Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.); Impacts of New Information Technologies; information practice; museum anthropology; Science and technology studies