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