News from the School of Information Management, Dalhousie University

The 2009 Information without Borders (IWB) Conference was a magnificent success. The keynote speakers, Dr B. Boadway & Mark Leggott, were riveting, the panels were highly engaging, the poster session and the technology petting zoo were extremely informative.

 

MLIS students Sarah Ziolkowska and Kimberly Johnson won the poster session competition with their entry titled “Green Technology and Academic Libraries”.

 

The webcasts of the IWB conference are now available at http://iwbconference.informationmanagement.dal.ca/iwbconference/index.html. We hope that these videos will encourage you to attend future student-led IWB conferences.

 

In March two Information Management public lectures were held in the School of Information Management:

 

Countdown to the Big Day: Wedding Planners as Documentary Tools for Time and Information Management was presented by SIM Researcher-in-Residence, Elisabeth Davies, and Pamela McKenzie, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, Research at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Their presentation focused on commercially-available wedding planning guides, how these planners teach brides-to-be to "see" time and the means provided for managing information throughout the planning process. This research is a component of a larger project about the relationship between time and information management.

 

In MLIS Independent Study Courses: From Contract Work to Original Research, five MLIS students presented the results of their research:

• Open Access Publishing. Creighton Barrett; Advisor: Haidar Moukdad
• Processes for Community Archiving. Braden Cannon; Advisor: Kathryn Harvey
• Cataloguing and Classification of Arabic Materials. Sean Swanick; Advisor: Haidar Moukdad
• Trends in Technology and Design: Teen Spaces in Small Public Libraries. Tasya Tymczyszyn; Advisors: Fiona Black and Eric Stackhouse.
• Connecting with Comics. Sarah Ziolkowska; Advisor: Vivian Howard