The Fourth Annual 鈥淏est Paper in Knowledge Organization Award鈥� for Volume 43 (2016) has been awarded to:
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Elaine M茅nard, Nouf Khashman, Svetlana Kochkina, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Patricia Velazquez-Morales, Fen Zhou, Pierre Jourlin, Priyanka Rawat, Peter Peinl, Elvys Linhares Pontes and Ilaria Brunetti (2016)听.鈥淎 Second Life for TIIARA: From Bilingual to Multilingual!鈥� Knowledge Organization 43 no. 1: 22-34.
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Prof听Guastavino will be featured on T茅l茅 Qu茅bec show Electrons Libres airing听November 17th at 18h30 for a short documentary on the Sounds of the City project
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The inaugural winner of the fellowship, Rajat Bhateja is a second-year Masters of Information Studies student in the School of Information Studies, Faculty of Arts.
W., Chen, B-C., &听Shu, F听(accepted).听Publish or impoverish: An investigation of the monetary reward system of science in China (1999-2016).听Aslib Journal of Information Management.听69(4)
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脡coutez Catherine Guastavino et Romain Dumoulin nous parler du projet de recherche La ville sonore (Sounds in the city) dans une entrevue r茅alis茅e 脿 l鈥櫭﹎ission Les Ann茅es Lumi猫res de Radio-Canada durant le 85猫me congr猫s de l鈥橝CFAS.
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The goal of the proposed research is to investigate the metaliteracy knowledge and skills of millennials when seeking and using information not only for academia but also for their day-to-day lives. 听The metaliteracy construct encompasses the traditional scholarly information as well as alternative digital contents delivered through the Web, social media, wikis, blogs, etc. The target population of the study is the undergraduate students at different stages of their studies and across multiple disciplines.
Please see the ACFAS website for more information about the event
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Dr. Catherine Guastavino, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, has received a 2016 SSHRC Insight Development Grant in collaboration with Ville de Montreal and Dumoulin Acoustics. Doctoral student Daniel Steele from the Multimodal Interaction Lab takes a leading role in the project. Visit 听for more information.
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The American Library Association granted continued accreditation to our school in January 2017.
The full external review panel report can be seen here
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Prof. Karyn Moffatt, Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网School of Information has been awarded the Tier 2 鈥� Canada Research Chair in Inclusive Social Computing
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On October 18, 2016, as a Local Arrangement Chair, prof. Fung听received the Service Award from the IEEE 2016 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA鈥�2016). The award comes with free registrations for the conference in the next three years.
Prof. Fung would like to congratulate his PhD students at SIS who served as volunteers at听the conference, he shares this honour with them. 听
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Congratulations to 51吃瓜网School of Information Studies PhD student Fei Shu on receiving a FRQSC Doctoral Fellowship.
Fei鈥檚 research investigates the difference between Web of Science and local Chinese bibliometric databases and contributes to understanding of whether international bibliometric databases can be used to evaluate national research performance.
Fei's supervisors are Dr. Charles-Antoine Julien and Dr. Vincent Larivi猫re, EBSI, UdeM.
Announcing the Spring 2016 edition of the 51吃瓜网School of Information Studies newsletter, featuring updates about the School and achievements of our alumni, faculty, and students.
Download the Spring 2016 newsletter as a PDF via our website, or browse articles on our .
To support six research projects in fields from neuroscience to food safety and Arctic ecosystems
The 51吃瓜网School of Information Studies congratulates PhD in Information Studies student Fei Shu, recently selected for the iFellows Doctoral Fellowship program. Fei's thesis proposal was selected from a pool of applicants from 65 iSchools across the world. As an iFellow, Fei will receive a stipend of $50,000 USD over two years to pursue independent dissertation research that supports the goals of the Coherence at Scale Program.
