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FACULTY TEACHING & RESEARCH AREAS OF INTEREST

 

* faculty who supervise doctoral students

 

Faculty Member

Professional and Teaching Interests

Research Interests

Luciana Duranti
Professor
[contact information]
[biographical information]
[current research]

  • Archival diplomatics
  • Appraisal and acquisition
  • Preservation of digital records
  • Archival theory and scholarship
  • The trustworthiness of digital records (accuracy, reliability and authenticity)
  • Validity of traditional diplomatic & archival concepts for contemporary records
  • Principles & methods for acquiring & maintaining control of contemporary records
  • Theory versus practice: what works in real situations

Luanne Freund
Assistant Professor
[contact information]
[biographical information]
[current research]
[personal webpage]

  • Information sources and services
  • Information seeking
  • Information retreival
  • Research methods

 

  • Interactive information retrieval
  • web-based information seeking
  • organizational information behaviour
  • Contextual and task-based approaches to information access
  • digital genres

 

Rick Kopak
Assistant Professor
[contact information]
[biographical information]
[current research]

  • Information design
  • User-centred design
  • Database design
  • Markup-languages
  • Research methods
  • Link typing
  • Hypertext
  • Digital libraries
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Information-seeking in distributed information environments
  • Information architecture
  • Information design

Victoria L. Lemieux
Assistant Professor
[contact information]
[biographical information]
[current research]

  • Arrangement and description of archival documents
  • Public service programs in archives
  • The history of administration in the Canadian juridical system
  • Management of current records
  • Organizational management practices
  • Archival legislation and regulation
    Accountability and record keeping
    Appraisal theories and methods
    Record keeping and risk management
    Digital conversion of electronic records
    Information security and privacy
    Records management issues in the financial services industry
    Impact of new technologies on archival arrangement and description

Francesca Marini
Assistant Professor
[contact information]
[biographical information]
[current research]

  • Research methods
  • Traditional and electronic records and information management
  • Information technology and archives
  • Creation, management, and use of performing arts archives, audiovisual and non-textual archives
  • Theatre history
  • Archival diplomatics
  • Paleography

 

  • Creation, management, and use of performing arts archives
  • Digital preservation
  • Electronic record-keeping
  • Information-seeking behaviour and use
  • Archival education and the evolving role of archival theory and practice
  • Ethical issues in archiving
  • Role of archives in supporting democracy and accountability
  • Theatre history

Heather O'Brien
Assistant Professor
[contact information]
[biographical information]
[current research]

  • Information Behaviour
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Literacy
  • Research Methods
  • Theories of user experience
  • Methods for evaluating user experiences with technology
  • Scale development and evaluation
  • Human-computer interaction, specifically user perception research
  • The role of affect, behaviour and cognition in users' interactions with technology
  • Information seeking, retrieval and use

Edie Rasmussen
Director & Professor
[contact information]
[biographical information]

  • Digital Libraries
  • Digital  Collections
  • Information Retrieval
  • Indexing and Abstracting
  • Information Retrieval in text, multimedia, and web environments
  • Digital Libraries
  • Data Mining
  • Bibliometrics

Judi Saltman
Associate Professor
[contact information]
[biographical information]
[current research]

  • Canadian children’s literature
  • Services & materials for youth in public libraries

 

  • Canadian children's literature
  • International children's literature
  • Canadian children's illustrated books
  • Canadian publishing for children

Mary Sue Stephenson
Senior Instructor
[contact information]
[biographical information]

  • Information retrieval
  • Indexing
  • Information Architecture
  • Web Design
  • Usability
  • Database design
  • Foundations of information technology
  • Research methods
  • Indexing
  • Information Retrieval
  • LIS Education

 

Last updated   March 1, 2009

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