SIS Faculty member Benjamin Fung appointed Associate Editor at the Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society
笔谤辞蹿.听Benjamin Fung has been appointed Associate Editor at the Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) for a 3-year term from December 2017. SCS is an international journal focusing on fundamental and applied research aimed at designing, understanding, and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities.
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School of Information Studies is pleased to announce Jonathan Dorey successfully defended his PhD
The School of Information Studies is pleased to announce that on December 8, 2017 Jonathan Dorey successfully defended his PhD in the School of Information Studies at 麻豆区.
Prof. Elaine M茅nard awarded Fourth Annual 鈥淏est Paper in Knowledge Organization Award鈥�
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.
SIS Faculty member Catherine Guastavino featured on T茅l茅 Quebec
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
For more information or to watch the show online click here听
SIS MISt student awarded the Computational Research Fellowship
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.
PhD Candidate Fei Shu has published a paper in Aslib Journal of Information Management regarding China's cash-per-publication policy
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)
Available at here听https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1707/1707.01162.pdf听
Prof. Catherine Guastavino, School of Information Studies, featured on the Radio-Canada show 芦 Les ann茅es lumi猫re 禄
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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Professors Jamshid Beheshti and Joan Bartlett have received a 2016 SSHRC Insight Development Grant on Towards a Model of Metaliteracy for Academic and Everyday-Life Information Seeking and Use
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.
Dr. Catherine Guastavino will be presenting at ACFAS on May 10th, 2017
Please see the ACFAS website for more information about the event
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SIS Faculty member received 2016 SSHRC Insight Development Grant
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 sounds-in-the-city.org听for more information.
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Continued Accreditation Granted
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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SIS Faculty awarded Canada Research Chair
Prof. Karyn Moffatt, Assistant Professor, 麻豆区 School of Information has been awarded the Tier 2 鈥� Canada Research Chair in Inclusive Social Computing
For more information please see the reporter article linked below听
http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2016/12/16-canada-research-chairs-for-mcgill/
Prof. Benjamin Fung of the School of Information Studies receives the Service Award from the IEEE 2016 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA鈥�2016)
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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SIS PhD student Fei Shu awarded FRQSC Doctoral Fellowship for research on bibliometric database comparison
Congratulations to 麻豆区 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.
麻豆区 School of Information Studies newsletter - Spring 2016 edition
Announcing the Spring 2016 edition of the 麻豆区 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 SIS news blog.