Folio Story with SLIS Associate Professor Tami Oliphant: Heart health messages for women may backfire, say U of A researchers

February 8, 2019

Messages meant to empower women with heart disease to live a healthier lifestyle may have the opposite effect, according to University of Alberta research. “Women are told they need to exercise more, they need to lose weight, they need to be social and all these heart-healthy activities, but we found that these messages made the women feel guilty, like they had caused their heart disease,” said Tami Oliphant, a professor of library and information studies, who conducted the study with...

Honours Abound at SLIS

November 16, 2018

SLIS celebrates four outstanding people: Professor Emeritus and instructor Dr. Alvin M. Schrader, SLIS alum Lorisia MacLeod, and SLIS professor Dr. Ali Shiri with doctoral student Sharon Farnel.

SLIS Chair Given Honorary Membership to Golden Key International Honour Society

September 7, 2018

SLIS Professor and Chair Toni Samek has been invited to join the Golden Key International Honour Society

Congratulations to Ashley, Justin, and Rachel!

August 17, 2018

SLIS is pleased to acknowledge three of our scholarship and award-winning students: Ashley Panagapko, Justin Fuhr, and Rachel Osolen.

Native Studies and SLIS alumna joins U of A Libraries

August 16, 2018

Kayla Lar-Son only graduated with a Master’s in Library and Information Studies this past spring, but she’s already setting a course to transform the libraries at the University of Alberta. As she steps into the role of the Indigenous Academic Resident (IAR) for U of A Libraries, Lar-Son, a Métis woman with an undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Native Studies, is bringing her unique perspective and undeniable passion to the work.

Appointment of Dr. Brenda Reyes Ayala as an Assistant Professor

June 14, 2018

The School of Library and Information Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Brenda Reyes Ayala as an Assistant Professor effective July 1, 2018.

Building an Information Bridge to Canada’s Arctic

March 27, 2018

"In Canada, “the north” takes on an entirely new meaning. Its lands are vast, wild, steeped in untamed beauty and home to a people with a rich cultural legacy hundreds of years old.

Justin Fuhr Awarded MLA Scholarship

March 15, 2018

SLIS student Justin Fuhr, part of the 2016 online MLIS cohort, has been awarded the Medical Library Association's ​MLA Scholarship.

Kirk MacLeod, SLIS Alum (2014) appointed to the University of Alberta Board of Governors

February 1, 2018

SLIS Employment Survey of 2016 Graduates

January 19, 2018

In November 2017, the School conducted its 28th annual employment survey of graduates of the MLIS program at the University of Alberta. The phrase “2016 graduates” includes graduates who convocated in the fall of 2015 or in the spring of 2016. This group includes the first cohort of students from the MLIS online teaching and learning stream to graduate from the program.