Faculty
| Lisa M. Given | Toni Samek |
| Heidi Julien | Ali Shiri |
| Margaret Mackey | Dangzhi Zhao |
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Ann Curry
Professor and Director
ann.curry@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-3932
Ph.D., University of Sheffield, 1993
Research Interests:
Censorship and intellectual freedom, public library management and collections including analysis of internet use, library history, and library architecture and planning.
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Lisa M. Given
Associate Professor
lisa.given@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-2033
Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 2001
Research Interests:
Higher Education, Individuals' Information Behaviours, Research Methods (esp. qualitative methods), Research Ethics, Social Constructionism, Web Usability and Information Architecture
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Courses Taught:
LIS 505 - Research Methods for Library and Information Studies
LIS 597 - Seminar in Advanced Research Methods
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Heidi Julien
Professor & Graduate Coordinator
heidi.julien@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-3934
Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 1997
Research Interests:
Information Behaviour, Information Literacy, Information Policy
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Courses Taught:
LIS 503 - Reference and Information Services
LIS 526 - Instructional Strategies for Library and Information Professionals
LIS 536 - Digital Reference and Information Retrieval
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Margaret Mackey
Professor (Secondment to Dept. of Secondary Education 2009-2010)
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 – Survey of Young Adult Materials
LIS 580 - Theories of Reading
LIS 585 – Multimedia Literacies
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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 598 - Knowledge Management
LIS 598 - Emerging and Evolving Technologies
LIS 598 - Database Driven Websites
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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
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Ali Shiri
Associate Professor
ashiri@ualberta.ca
(780) 492-5315
Ph.D., University of Strathclyde, 2003
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
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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 506 - Information Technology
LIS 533 – Database Design for Information Management
LIS 534 – Information Architecture: Web Design for Usability
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Last updated on August 24, 2009
