Two SLIS professors have won prestigious awards from the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta.
Dr. Ali Shiri has won the Graduate Teaching Award. He is particularly well known at SLIS for his expert work in teaching LIS 502, the introductory course on the challenging area of Knowledge Organization, and LIS 538, Digital Libraries. Dr. Shiri is currently the Associate Chair and Graduate Coordinator of SLIS, and has also done substantial work with the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Dr. Clive Hickson (Chair, Faculty of Education Teaching Awards Committee) noted Dr. Shiri's "nomination package was most impressive and was a stellar example of excellence in graduate teaching".
Dr. Margaret Mackey has received the Larry Beauchamp Senior Researcher Award, named for a former Dean of the Faculty. Dr. Mackey researches print, multimodal, and digital literacies, especially among young people. Her new book on the literate materials of her own childhood, One Child Reading: My Auto-bibliography, will be published in April by the University of Alberta Press. Many SLIS students have worked on this project, as well as on earlier studies of Dr. Mackey's.