School of Information

The iSchool is an internationally recognized School with innovative programs and exceptional research productivity. Our programs have received international awards and our faculty have received large research grants to support students.

Established as School of Librarianship in 1961 as a professional school within the Faculty of Arts and Science the School graduated its first class of Bachelors of Library Science in May 1962.

Vision: A thriving iSchool, known for exceptional student experiences and outcomes, societally relevant faculty research, alumni and community engagement, and faculty/staff work environment; recognized within UBC as an essential hub for vibrant, multi-disciplinary, cross-campus collaboration in the areas of archives, records and information management, human-computer interaction and design, Indigenous information initiatives, cultural informatics, digital media and media studies.

Identity: An iSchool with an Arts Perspective: (Information, Technology and People) + (Media, Design and Culture).

Mission: Through innovative research, education and design, our mission is to enhance humanity’s capacity to engage information in effective, creative and diverse ways.

245
Master's Students
22
Doctoral Students
87
Graduate Degrees Awarded
 
 

Research Supervisors

Name Research Interests
Bullard, Julia Organization of information and knowledge resources; Library science and information studies; classification systems; Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.); Information Systems; metadata; values-in-design
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
Kwakkel, Erik Archival, repository and related studies; Library science and information studies; Codicology; History of Libraries; History of the Book; Medieval Manuscripts; Paleography; History of Reading
Lemieux, Victoria Archival, repository and related studies; Records and information management (except business records and information management); Digital humanities; 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 Other studies in human society; Critical studies of technology; Climate Justice; Indigenous-led Information Initiatives; Information Ethics & Policy; Storied Information
O'Brien, Heather All other social sciences, n.e.c.; 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
Sinnamon, Luanne Silvia Human information behaviour (including human information retrieval); Web search; Information retrieval; 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

Stories

Bonnie Tulloch

Student
Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

Saguna Shankar

Student
Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

Bri Watson

Student
Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

Michelle Kaczmarek

Student
Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

Hoda Amal Hamouda

Student
Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

Andrea Kampen

Student
Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

Trinh Nguyen

Student
Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

Xaanja Free

Student
Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS)
 
 

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