Joan Bartlett

Associate Professor On sabbatical leave 2011-2012 Phone: 514-398-6976 Email

Abridged Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D
Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto
Dissertation: Connecting Bioinformatics Analysis to Scientific Practice: An Integrated Information Behaviour and Task Analysis Approach

M.L.S.
Faculty of Library and Information Science
University of Toronto

B.Sc. (Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology)
University of Toronto

Courses Taught

• GLIS 619 Information Services & Users 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Library & Information Studies: Information users and use; information needs and use environments. Principles and practices of information transfer; development of information services and collections to meet needs. Evaluation of information services.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Terms
    • Winter 2012
  • Instructors
    • Isabelle Lamoureux
• GLIS 671 Health Sciences Information 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Library & Information Studies: A survey of information services and sources (both electronic and print) for health care professionals and the general public. An exploration of the information needs of health professionals and scientists; the role of health libraries and librarians; principles of health and biomedical library practice, functions, and management.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisites: GLIS 617 and either GLIS 615 or GLIS 619.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year
• GLIS 673 Bioinformatics Resources 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Library & Information Studies: Bioinformatics from a library and information science perspective: biological foundation for bioinformatics; bioinformatics information needs and behaviours; information retrieval using key bioinformatics resources; the role of biology, computer science and library and information science; ethics.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisites: GLIS 617 and either GLIS 615 or GLIS 619.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the academic year
• GLIS 679 Information Literacy 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Library & Information Studies: Definitions of human literacy; information literacy standards; theories and models of information behaviour; design and delivery of information literacy programs; library programs and services; and information literacy research.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Prerequisite: GLIS 619.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2011
  • Instructors
    • Yusuke Fitzgibbons

Professional Activities

• Faculty Member - McGill Centre for Bioinformatics

Research Interests

• Information interaction
• Information seeking and use
• Bioinformatics and biomedical information
• Information literacy

Selected Publications and Presentations

Bartlett, J.C., Ishimura, Y. & Kloda, L.A. (2011). Why Choose This One? Factors in scientists’ selection of bioinformatics resources. Information Research, 16(1), paper 463. http://informationr.net/ir/16-1/paper463.html

Ishimura, Y., & Bartlett, J.C. (2011). Information literacy courses in LIS schools: Emerging perspectives for future education. Education for Information. 27 (2009), 197-216. doi: 10.3233/EFI-2009-0883.

Dufour, C., Bartlett, J.C., & Toms, E.G. (2011). Understanding how webcasts are used as sources of information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(2), 343-362. doi: 10.1002/asi.21445

Boudin, F., Nie, J.-Y., Bartlett, J.D., Grad, R., Pluye, P., and Dawes, M. (2010). Combining classifiers for robust PICO element detection. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 10, 29. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-10-31.

Kloda, L.A. & Bartlett, J.C. (2009). Clinical Information behavior of rehabilitation therapists: A review of the research. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 97(3), 194-202.

Pluye, P., Grad, R.M., Dawes, M. and Bartlett, J.C. (2007). Seven reasons why health professionals search Clinical Information-Retrieval Technology (CIRT): Toward an organizational model. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 13, 39-49.

Bartlett, J.C. and Toms, E.G. (2005). Developing a protocol for bioinformatics analysis: an integrated information behavior and task analysis approach. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(5), 469-482.

Bartlett, J.C. (2004). A Task-based and user-centered protocol for bioinformatics information search and retrieval. Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR’04 Workshop on Search and Discovery in Bioinformatics, Sheffield, UK, July 29.

Toms, E.G., Dufour, C., Bartlett, J., Freund, L. and S. Szigeti (2004). Identifying the significant contextual factors of search. Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR’04 Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context, Sheffield, UK, July 29.

Toms, E.G., Freund, L., Kopak, R., and Bartlett, J.C. (2003). The effect of task domain on search. Proceedings of the 2003 CASCON Conference, Markham, ON, October 6-9, p. 1-9.