Publications

Faculty and librarians at the iSchool are actively engaged in new scholarship. Many of the publications highlighted below feature collaboration with scholars across major academic institutions, as well as research with the iSchool’s own doctoral candidates, Master’s candidates, and alumni/ae.

Recent works

Matthew Brower, Lecturer

Matthew Brower recently launched his book Developing animals: Wildlife and early American photography, published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Nadia Caidi, Associate Professor

Professor Caidi's research has appeared in Journal of Documentation, Library and Information Science Research, and Government Information Quarterly. She recently co-authored a chapter in the prestigious Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, volume 44 (2010), with iSchool doctoral candidates Danielle Allard and Lisa Quirke, entitled, "The information practices of immigrants."

Joan Cherry, Professor

Professor Cherry recently co-authored an article on archival metrics toolkits, which reported on the result of the Archival Metrics Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The article, entitled “The Development, testing, and evaluation of the archival metrics toolkits,” appeared in the volume 73, number 2 Fall/Winter 2010 issue of American Archivist. The article was the product of a collaboration between leading archival and information science scholars in the field, including the iSchool’s Professor Wendy Duff and the University of Michigan’s Professor Elizabeth Yakel.

Chun Wei Choo, Professor

Professor Choo recently co-authored an article in the Journal of Documentation with alumnus Sylvio Cyr (MISt, 2009) on the dynamics of knowledge sharing, and an article with former iSchool visiting scholar Rivadávia Alavarenga Neto (2009) of the Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil, on enabling contexts in knowledge organizations.

Andrew Clement, Professor

Professor Clement has co-authored articles on alternative models of public wireless infrastructures, and privacy and the Internet. He is an active presenter at conferences. Along with iSchool doctoral candidate Krista Boa, he co-authored a book chapter on national ID cards in Playing the identity card: Surveillance, security and identification in global perspective, published by Routledge in 2008.

Keren Dali, Assistant Professor

Professor Dali is the author of a number of peer-reviewed articles on reading and readers’ advisory. Her other research interests include international library and information science credentials and education, and multicultural collections and reference services. Her most recent paper in The Reference Librarian discusses readers’ advisory in public libraries and translated fiction. She is a co-author of the recent volume Contemporary world fiction: A guide to literature in translation.

Juris Dilevko, Associate Professor

Professor Dilevko has written many works in the areas of library and information studies. His latest monograph, The politics of professionalism: A retro-progressive proposal for librarianship, was published in 2009. He collaborated with iSchool Assistant Professor Keren Dali and alumna Glenda Garbutt to produce Contemporary world fiction: A guide to literature in translation.

Wendy Duff, Professor

Professor Duff was lead author of an article on archival metrics, which appeared in the Fall-Winter 2010 issue of American Archivist. Co-authors included the iSchool’s Professor Joan Cherry and University of Michigan’s Professor Elizabeth Yakel.

Fiorella Foscarini, Assistant Professor

Professor Foscarini recently published an online article for Archival Science, in which she discusses the hard and soft approaches to records management. The paper is based on an earlier presentation given at the 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving, held in Geneva from April 28-30, 2010.

Alan Galey, Assistant Professor

Professor Galey sits on the editorial board for Shakespeare: the Journal of the British Shakespeare Association and on the technical advisory board of Internet Shakespeare Editions, an online project supported by the University of Victoria. He recently published an article in a special issue of Shakespeare Quarterly, discussing Shakespeare and the history of information.

Twyla Gibson, Assistant Professor

Professor Gibson is a founding member of the peer-reviewed, open source, open access e-journal, MediaTropes, as well as a member of the editorial board for Explorations in Media Ecology. She is also a writer, with credits in film, television, print, and interactive media.

Sara Grimes, Assistant Professor

Professor Grimes' research has appeared in Communication, Culture and Critique; The Information Society; New Media and Society; and Canadian Journal of Communication. A recent article examines Hollywood and popular depictions of children’s digital gaming.

Jenna Hartel, Assistant Professor

Professor Hartel's work on the users and uses of leisure and hobby information has appeared in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Knowledge Organization, and Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 3rd edition. A recent article, published in volume 66, number 6 of Journal of Documentation, studies gourmet cooking hobbyists’ organization of culinary information at home.

Lynne C. Howarth, Professor

Professor Howarth was guest editor of a 2010 issue of Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, a festschrift honouring Professor Emeritus Nancy Williamson. Professor Howarth recently co-authored an article on cataloguing backlogs with Leslie Moor, iSchool doctoral candidate, and Elisa Sze, Collections Coordinator at the iSchool.

Cara Krmpotich, Assistant Professor

Professor Krmpotich's research on memory and repatriation has been published in Journal of Material Culture. A recent article on the emotive materiality and affective presence of human remains, a collaboration with Joost Fontein and John Harries, appeared in the journal in December 2010.

Kelly Lyons, Associate Professor

Professor Lyons has published in the areas of service science and computer science, including a co-authored article that appeared in Decision Support Systems. She was quoted in November 2010 in a Financial Post article on the service-centric economy.

Heather MacNeil, Associate Professor

Professor MacNeil co-edited Currents of archival thinking, a collection of essays that explore the theory and practice of archival studies through the frameworks of foundational concepts, components of the archival mission, and metaphors shaping archives and archival institutions. Her 2008 article, "Archivalterity: Rethinking original order," from Archivaria, volume 66, was awarded the Hugh A. Taylor Prize in 2010.

Jens-Erik Mai, Associate Professor

Professor Mai is co-author of a book chapter that appeared in The library as place: History, community, and culture, published by Libraries Unlimited in 2007. He recently published an article on bias and trust in classification.

Rhonda McEwen, Assistant Professor

Professor McEwen has published articles in Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, New Media and Society, and Contexts. Along with iSchool doctoral candidate Melissa Fritz, she is co-author of a book chapter on youth mobile phone practices, in the essay collection Mobile communication: Dimensions of social policy, edited by James E. Katz.

Wendy Newman, Senior Fellow

Wendy Newman is currently working on two books on library advocacy for Greenwood Press. These books are co-authored with Ken Haycock, Professor Emeritus at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University.

David Phillips, Associate Professor

Professor Phillips has recently published on the topics of surveillance, privacy, and critical information studies. He is the co-editor of a special issue of Surveillance and Society and author of a book chapter in Lessons from the identity trail: Privacy, identity and anonymity in a network world.

Matt Ratto, Assistant Professor

Professor Ratto's work on the relationship between science, technology, and society has appeared in Current Anthropology and Information Society. He is co-author of a book chapter in The handbook of science and technology studies, 3rd edition, published by MIT Press.

Seamus Ross, Professor and Dean

Professor Ross has published actively in the areas of digital archiving and curation. He has co-authored articles that appeared in New Review of Information Networking, Archival Science, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, and International Journal on Digital Libraries.

Aviv Shachak, Assistant Professor

Professor Shachak's work on electronic health records has appeared in publications for health informatics scholars as well as journals for clinicians. He recently co-authored an article on primary care physicians' use of an electronic medical record system, and an article that studied user interactions with a decision-support system for diabetic foot care.

Nalini K. Singh, Academic Librarian, Reference and Public Services Coordinator

Nalini K. Singh collaborated with Professor Joan Cherry, Professor Wendy Duff, and alumna Luanne Freund on a project that looked at student perceptions of the information professions. An article on the project findings has been published in Library and Information Science Research, April 2011.

Brian Cantwell Smith, Professor

Professor Smith is working on a serial publication entitled "Age of Significance," which provides a sustained, systematic philosophical analysis of the foundation of computation and intentionality. He has also authored book chapters in Computationalism: New directions and Philosophy of mental representation.

Siobhan Stevenson, Assistant Professor

Professor Stevenson has published articles on library history, the digital divide, and the political economy of information. Her work has appeared in Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, Library and Information History, Progressive Librarian, First Monday, and Information Society. A recent article looked at the political economy of Andrew Carnegie's library philanthropy, while another examined the digital divide.

Elisa Sze, Academic Librarian, Collections Coordinator

Elisa Sze is co-author of an article that examines the history and current treatment of cataloguing backlogs in North American library systems.

Yuri Takhteyev, Assistant Professor

Professor Takhteyev has published articles and presented papers on the relationship between globalization, sociology of work, and open source software development. He recently had an article published in Information, Communication and Society, that used Brazilian software development as a case study.

Lynne Teather, Associate Professor

Professor Teather has published prolifically on the history of museums and on museum practices in Canada. She is the author of The Royal Ontario Museum: A Prehistory, 1840-1914, and a number of papers that have appeared in such publications as International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, Museums and the Web conference proceedings, and Museum History Journal.

Eric Yu, Professor

Professor Yu has co-authored many articles on information systems analysis and design, software engineering, and social modeling. As well, he is an active presenter at international conferences. His recent article on the vulnerability-centric requirements engineering framework was published in Requirements Engineering, volume 15, number 1. Another article on the evaluation of goal models within goal-oriented requirement language appeared in International Journal of Intelligent Systems.