Faculty Research

Our faculty at SLIS demonstrate research excellence by:

  • regularly securing local, national, federal, and international funding;
  • publishing articles in highly ranked journals, academic book chapters, monographs, and policy briefs;
  • contributing to professional and academic conferences, webinars, and scholarly conversations, and, 
  • enhancing our research through high quality teaching and service.
Learn about faculty research interests by viewing their profiles.

Research Areas

Faculty members at the School of Information Studies are engaged in highly interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse research areas ranging from:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Bibliometrics
  • Citation-based knowledge networks
  • Community archives
  • Critical information studies
  • Cultural heritage
  • Digital libraries
  • Information retrieval
  • Intellectual freedom
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Human computer interaction
  • Human information interaction
  • Knowledge management 
  • Learning analytics 
  • Libraries and library work 
  • Multilingual information access 
  • Publishing
  • Web archiving

Research Highlights

Recruit Our Students

Discoverability in Digital Repositories Systems, Perspectives, and User Studies
Edited by Liz Woollcott and Ali Shiri

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Student And Alumni Services

Patron-Perpetrated Sexual Harassment in Libraries
Danielle Allard and Tami Oliphant

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Advocacy Framework title page

A National Advocacy Framework for Open Educational Resources in Canada
Michael McNally and Ann Ludbrook

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