- School of Information Studies
Dr. Alexandre Fortier and Dr. Elaine Ménard to receive Best Overall Paper award
Dr. Alexandre Fortier and Dr. Elaine Ménard received The Best Overall Paper award for the highest ranked submission at the 46th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) for their paper entitled "Quelles données satisferaient les utilisateurs de sites web de musées?". Award papers are being presented on the first day of the conference (May 30, 2018) between 10:00-noon.
...SIS Faculty member Benjamin Fung appointed Associate Editor at the Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society
Prof. 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.
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 McGill University....
Prof. Elaine Ménard awarded Fourth Annual “Best Paper in Knowledge Organization Award”
The Fourth Annual “Best Paper in Knowledge Organization Award” for Volume 43 (2016) has been awarded to:
Elaine Ménard, 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) .“A Second Life for TIIARA: From Bilingual to Multilingual!” Knowledge Organization 43 no. 1: 22-34.
...SIS Faculty member Catherine Guastavino featured on Télé Quebec
Prof Guastavino will be featured on Télé Québec show Electrons Libres airing 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
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., & Shu, F (accepted). Publish or impoverish: An investigation of the monetary reward system of science in China (1999-2016). Aslib Journal of Information Management. 69(4)
Available at here https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1707/1707.01162.pdf
...Prof. Catherine Guastavino, School of Information Studies, featured on the Radio-Canada show « Les années lumière »
Écoutez Catherine Guastavino et Romain Dumoulin nous parler du projet de recherche La ville sonore (Sounds in the city) dans une entrevue réalisée à l’émission Les Années Lumières de Radio-Canada durant le 85ème congrès de l’ACFAS.
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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. 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
la programmation complète du congrès de l’Acfas
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 for more information.
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SIS Faculty awarded Canada Research Chair
Prof. Karyn Moffatt, Assistant Professor, McGill School of Information has been awarded the Tier 2 – Canada Research Chair in Inclusive Social Computing
For more information please see the reporter article linked below
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’2016)
On October 18, 2016, as a Local Arrangement Chair, prof. Fung received the Service Award from the IEEE 2016 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA’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 the conference, he shares this honour with them.
Dr. Benjamin Fung of the School of Information Studies appointed Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity
McGill University School of Information Studies faculty member Dr. Benjamin Fung has been awarded a Canada Research Chair (CRC Tier 2) in Data Mining for Cybersecurity. Dr. Fung's research program aims to enhance the data sharing and data mining capabilities for healthcare and cyber security professionals.
...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