Select Student Theses

SLIS students engage in a wide array of research relevant to the field of library and information studies.

This is a non-exhaustive list.

2025

Mara Vranjkovic (DH/MLIS) Neuroqueering the virtual: Disruptive digital storytelling for radically reimagined worlds

2024

Dan Hackborn (DH/MLIS) We Were Here: a waypoint for library workers in a changing climate circa 2023 CE & 1.47 ± 0.09 °C above the preindustrial average

Michaela Morrow (DH/MLIS) Cultural Memory in the Anthropocene: A Hypertext Narrative about Collecting.

2023

Kathleen Oliver (DH/MLIS) Toxic Tech, Library Service, and Contradicting Values

Sara Barnard (DH/MLIS) Networking Albertan Literary History, 1975-1979: A Bibliographic and Social Network Analysis

2022

Andrea Budac (DH/MLIS) Missing mods: An examination of an online fan community’s archiving practices

Julia Guy (DH/MLIS) Artificial Interactions: The Ethics of Virtual Assistants

2021

Kendra Cowley (DH/MLIS) Echo Elsewhere: Settler-colonialism and the Materialization of Sound

Student Theses 2010-2020

2019

On July 01, 2018, the Master of Arts in Humanities Computing (HuCo) was renamed to the Master of Arts in Digital Humanities (DH).

Anna Borynec (DH/MLIS) Exploring the Digital Medusa: Ssnakes, Sstorytelling, and Sserious Leisure

Laura Gerlitz (DH/MLIS) Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader's Advisory

Kris Joseph (DH/MLIS) Catagora: Shared Library Cataloguing on the Ethereum Blockchain

2018

Mihaela Ilovan (HuCo/MLIS) Information Architecture of CiteLens: A Visualization Tool for Context and Content Analysis of References in Traditional Humanities Monographs

2017

Maureen Babb (MLIS) An Exploration of Academic Librarians as Researchers within a University Setting

Colette Leung (HuCo/MLIS) The Journeys of Books: Rare Books and Manuscripts Provenance Metadata in a Digital Age

Megan Sellmer (HuCo/MLIS) Evaluating the Information Architecture of Digital Museums

Zachary Schoenberger (HuCo/MLIS) Who Wrote This? Creator Metadata Quality on Academia.Edu

2016

Sophia Hoosein (HuCo/MLIS) Navigating the Jungle: An Investigation of Older Adults' Quests for Governmental Information

Andrea Johnston (HuCo/MLIS) Walking with the Archives: Mapping Newfoundland Identity through Ghost Stories and Folklore

Shannon Lucky (HuCo/MLIS) ARChives: Exploring the Community Archives of Canadian Artist-Run Centres

Betthany MacCallum (HuCo/MLIS) The Role of Social Medial in the Facilitation of Comples Discourses Between Young Adult Author and Reader

Sandra Schwab (HuCo/MLIS) Defining Privacy: A Critical Investigation of Canadian Political Discourse

2015

Jared Bielby (HuCo/MLIS) Information Ethics. Exploring the crossroads between Information Ethics, WikiLeaks, and the Philosophy of Information

Alison Pitcher (MLIS) Online Library Communities:An Analysis of Ten Canadian Public Library Websites and Social Media

Robyn Stobbs (MLIS) Fiction & Information: The Leisure Reading Experience

2014

Sara Vela (HuCo/MLIS) Documenting Classical Artefacts in a Digital Environment: A User-Centric Approach for an Academic Audience

2013

Eric Forcier (HuCo/MLIS) The Shoemaker's Son: A Substantive Theory of Social Media Use for Knowledge Sharing in Academic Libraries