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

 
Margaret MackeyMargaret 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

Tami Oliphant 
Assistant Professor (2-Year term)
toliphan@ualberta.ca  
(780) 492-2033

PhD, 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 503 – Information Sources and Services (University of Western Ontario)
LIS 591 – Publishing, Media, and Librarianship (University of Western Ontario)

 

 

Dinesh RathiDinesh 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 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 ShiriAli Shiri
Associate Professor (On Sabbatical)
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 ZhaoDangzhi 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