Librarian and Archivist Profiles
Listed below are the current members and research interests of librarians and archivists at York University Libraries.
In October of 2009 they unanimously agreed on the York University Open Access Policy for Librarians and Archivists.
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Librarian |
Research interests |
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Allison-Cassin, Stacy |
Knowledge organisation; communication; information technology; popular music; semiotics. |
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Archer, Cynthia |
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Bristow, Timothy |
Political science. |
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Bury, Sophie |
Information literacy assessment; faculty perspectives/habits/practices in the realm of information literacy; university students’ research habits/skills. |
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Cao, Haiyun |
Metadata; controlled vocabulary; East Asian materials cataloguing. |
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Coysh, Sarah |
Online learning; information literacy; emerging technologies; secondary school music education. |
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Craig, Dana |
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Davidson, Catherine |
Innovative collection development practices, assessment and evaluation and work-life balance. |
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Denton, William |
FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records); library history; the One Big Library; the Semantic Web; linked data. |
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Drexler, Julianna |
Bibliography; indexing. |
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Dubeau, Suzanne |
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Duerr, Peter |
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Dupuis, John |
Use of Web 2.0 by scholarly publishers (and by scholars in general); blogging as a professional development tool for librarians; future trends in academic science libraries. |
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Elder, Kathryn |
Avant-garde media; media preservation; art history. |
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Fernandez, Leila |
Scholarly communication issues in the sciences; particularly pertaining to developing countries. |
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Fraser, Heather |
Technical services workflow; metadata schemas; emerging technologies and cataloguing trends. |
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Giesbrecht, Walter |
Web design; data dissemination; emerging technologies in libraries. |
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Grewal, Kalina |
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Kandiuk, Mary |
Canadian literature bibliography; diversity and librarians. |
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Kosavic, Andrea |
Repositories; open access; author rights; new publishing models; open source; interoperability; Semantic Web; digitization; metadata. |
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Li, Xuemei |
Data librarianship; information-seeking behaviour; social media; scholarly communication. |
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Lupton, Aaron |
Electronic resource access and management; library-vendor relationships; embedded library services; electronic resource evaluation and assessment; electronic collection development. |
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Maimets, Ilo-Katryn |
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Majekodunmi, Norda Bell |
Accessibility of library resources (especially electronic resources) and services to users with disabilities; scholarly communication issues including the open access movement and the scholarship of academic librarians and their information use; application of Web 2.0 technologies (e.g. blogs, wikis, social tagging software) to libraries. |
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Matesic, Maura |
Teaching with technology; peer learning and collaborative learning initiatives; Victorian social history. |
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McLaren, Scott |
Book history and print culture; North American religious history; Bible societies; religion and literature. |
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Mgwigwi, Thumeka |
Information literacy and assessment. |
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Moir, Michael |
History of shipbuilding and waterfront development in Canada, especially Toronto. |
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Monty, Vivienne |
Effective teaching and reference; faculty-librarian cooperation; first-year experience. |
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Nariani, Rajiv |
E-Books and their uptake by the research community; using technology tools in promoting resources at the libraries; collection development in the sciences. |
| Orlandini, Rosa BSc (Winnipeg), MLIS (McGill) GIS and Map Librarian, Head, Map Library rorlan@yorku.ca |
Geography; Maps; GIS; Geospatial Literacy |
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Robertson, Mark |
Library as place; learning environments; learning commons; integration of information literacy within the curriculum; virtual reference. |
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Ryan, Patti |
Women and politics; feminist theory; critical pedagogy; socio-political dimensions of information literacy. |
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Salmon, Marcia |
Cataloguing training; providing access to electronic content; open access and institutional repositories. |
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Savard, Dany |
Assessment, public administration. |
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Scott, Tom |
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Sloniowski, Lisa |
Critical information literacy and pedagogy; developing and integrating information literacy into the curriculum; collection development issues surrounding avant-garde literary materials; the social responsibilities and roles of libraries and librarians. |
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St. Onge, Anna |
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Taves, Adam |
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van der Bliek, Rob |
Jazz and popular music analysis and history; theoretical implications of storage and retrieval issues for digital audio databases; preservation of sound through digitization; practical interests include the guitar issues in collection development, and web technology. |
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Warren, Peggy |
Learning Commons teaching collaborations |
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Watson, Elizabeth |
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