Faculty
Director
Ernie Ingles, F.R.S.C.
Director & Executive Professor
ernie.ingles@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-3932
Research Interests: Library Leadership Development, Academic Libraries, Historical Bibliography, Rural Public Libraries, and Library Human Resource Development
SLIS Faculty
Jennifer L. Branch
Associate Professor
jbranch@ualberta.ca
Ph.D., University of Alberta, 2000
Research Interests: Information-seeking processes, information literacy education, electronic reference sources, and teacher-librarian education
Margaret Mackey
Professor and Graduate Coordinator
margaret.mackey@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-2605
Ph.D., University of Alberta, 1995
Research Interests: Reading processes, Interpretive approaches to print, graphic, digital, and media texts, Children's and young adult literature, Popular culture and young people, Commodities and merchandising for youth
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Courses Taught:
LIS 403 - Materials for Young Adults
LIS 580 - Contemporary Theories and Practices of Reading
LIS 585 - Multimedia Literacies
Michael McNally
Assistant Professor
mmcnally@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-3934
Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 2012
Research Interests: Intellectual property and its alternatives, information policy, user-generated content, university knowledge diffusion and innovation mechanisms, telecommunications policy and radio-spectrum management
Courses Taught:
LIS 503 – Reference and Information Services
LIS 526 – Instructional Strategies for Library and Information Professionals
LIS 536 – Digital Reference and Information Retrieval (IT)
LIS 9130 – Information Policy (University of Western Ontario)
LIS 9004 – Research Methods and Statistics (University of Western Ontario)
Tami Oliphant
Assistant Professor
toliphan@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-2033
Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 2011
Research Interests: Information behaviour, publishing and media industries and their relationship to librarianship, information policy, online consumer health information
Courses Taught:
LIS 210 – Critical Strategies for the Information Universe
LIS 505 – Introduction to Research
LIS 591 – Publishing
LIS 597/697 – Seminar in Advanced Research Methods
Dinesh Rathi
Assistant Professor
drathi@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-8797
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
Research Interests: Use of machine learning, data mining and other methods to make e-mail based customer support system more efficient, knowledge management, management information systems
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Courses Taught:
LIS 504 - Leadership and Management Principles for Library and Information Services
LIS 598 - Knowledge Management
LIS 598 - Emerging and Evolving Technologies
LIS 598 - Database Driven Websites
Toni Samek
Professor
toni.samek@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-0179
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998
Research Interests: Critical librarianship, Library ethics, rights & values, Intercultural information ethics, Global information justice, Human rights, Intellectual freedom, Social responsibility
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Courses Taught:
LIS 501 - Foundations of Library and Information Studies
LIS 531 - Collection Management
LIS 592 - Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility
LIS 598 - Library and Information Services for Special Populations
Ali Shiri
Associate Professor
ashiri@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-5315
Ph.D., University of Strathclyde, 2004
Research Interests: Information retrieval interaction and user behaviour, user-centred search term selection and query expansion, Knowledge organization systems in digital libraries, Web-based thesaurus interfaces and applications, social tagging, visual interfaces to digital libraries, subject-based information gateways, metadata and Internet resource organization
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Courses Taught:
LIS 502 - Organization of Knowledge and Information
LIS 532 - Cataloguing & Classification
LIS 535 - Advanced Topics in the Organization of Knowledge
LIS 538 - Digital Libraries
Dangzhi Zhao
Associate Professor
dzhao@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-2814
Ph.D., Florida State University, 2003
Research Interests: Knowledge network analysis and visualization; Information systems; Scholarly communication; Citation analysis; Bibliometrics
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Courses Taught:
LIS 533 - Database Design for Information Management
LIS 534 - Information Architecture: Web Design for Usability