Dr. Ali Shiri Promoted to Full Professor at the University of Alberta.
The School of Library and Information Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Ali Shiri has been promoted to the rank of Professor effective July 1, 2014. This promotion recognizes Dr. Shiri's outstanding research, service, and teaching contributions to the School, to the Faculty of Education, to the University of Alberta, and to the library and information field at large.
Dr. Shiri obtained his PhD in Information Science from the University of Strathclyde Department of Computer and Information Sciences in Glasgow, Scotland. He joined the School in 2004 as Assistant Professor.
Dr. Shiri teaches in the areas of digital libraries and digital information organization and retrieval, and metadata. His research areas include digital libraries, user interaction with digital information, search user interfaces, social media, and big data. He is the author of a monograph published by ASIS&T and of more than 70 refereed articles in various information science books, conferences, and journals including JASIS&T, Journal of Documentation, Journal of Information Science, Online Information Review, and Knowledge Organization.
In 2008, Dr. Shiri was awarded the Coutts-Clarke Research Fellowship supported by the Faculty of Education, in recognition of his scholarly reputation as one of the top researchers in the Faculty. At the national level, Dr. Shiri's research has been funded by a Strategic Research Grant and an Insight Grant both from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and by a Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Knowledge Synthesis Grant.
Dr. Shiri's research articles have received 'Highly Commended Awards' from both the Journal of Documentation and Library Review. In 2008, he was the recipient of the prestigious award of the ASIS&T Digital Libraries Special Interest Group, which recognized his leadership in promoting discussion and scholarly communication within the area of digital libraries in North America.
Dr. Shiri has served the School as Chair of the Curriculum Committee, Chair of the Admissions Committee, and currently as Graduate Coordinator.
Dr. Shiri is on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, the Journal of Digital Information, and Library Review. For a list of Dr. Shiri's publications please check out the following page: http://www.ualberta.ca/~ashiri/publications.html