Research

Research at SLIS is diverse and engaging! SLIS faculty and students take a range of approaches to explore topics in the following areas and many other areas. We invite discussion, engagement, and collaboration.

• Academic freedom
• Bibliometrics
• Children's and young adult literature
• Digital libraries
• Global citizenship
• Help desk and customer support system
• Human computer interaction (HCI)
• Intellectual freedom
• Interpreting multimedia
• Information behaviour
• Information ethics
• Information literacy
• Information retrieval
• Information systems
• Knowledge organization and representation
• Knowledge management
• Knowledge network analysis and visualization
• Reading behaviours
• Readers' advisory services
• Scholarly communication
• Text mining and competitive intelligence

SLIS faculty research profiles and selected current research projects at SLIS are listed here, as well as theses and dissertations completed at SLIS and some research resources.