Enveloping such subjects as media studies, popular music and culture, journalism, health information sciences and, library and information science, the FIMS presentations offer a variety of subjects. Presentation topics include research in privacy, internet and media accuracy, copyright, and public education and assistance.
Submissions from 2023
Open or Openwashing? Preliminary Findings from a Content Analysis of Publisher Websites, Courtney Waugh and Emily Carlisle-Johnston
Submissions from 2021
Collection Development in Practice: Rural Public Library, Jennifer Webb, Alida Lemieux, Natysha Rieger, and Cynthia Mancia
Submissions from 2020
Lessons Learned from Teaching Scholarly Communication Alongside a Student-Run Journal, Melissa Seelye
Submissions from 2019
What Am I Reading?: Article-style Native Advertisements in Canadian Newspapers, Victoria Rubin and Sarah Cornwell
Submissions from 2018
"I'm Not Evil. I'm Chaotic Neutral!": On the Classification of Internet Trolls, Yimin Chen
Information Into Action? Reflections On (Critical) Practice (Keynote Address, WILU 2018), Karen Nicholson
Comparing Features of Fabricated and Legitimate Political News in Digital Environments (2016-2017), Victoria Rubin and Toluwase Victor Asubiaro
Educators' Perceptions of Information Literacy and Skills Required to Spot 'Fake News', Victoria Rubin and Nicole Delellis
Submissions from 2017
Perceptions of Clickbait: A Q-Methodology Approach, Yimin Chen and Victoria L. Rubin
NATIVE ADVERTISING: ADS IN DISGUISE AS EDITORIALS, Sarah Cornwell and Victoria L. Rubin
Local Actions/Global Implications: The Economic and Social Impacts of OA Publishing, Cal Murgu
The "Value Agenda": Negotiating a Path Between Compliance and Critical Practice, Karen P. Nicholson
Deception Detection & Rumor Debunking, Victoria L. Rubin
News Verification Suite: Towards System Design to Supplement Reporters’ and Editors’ Judgements, Victoria L. Rubin
The Protection of Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights, Melissa Seelye
All in for Privacy: Cultivating a Community of Information Privacy Awareness, Lindsay Taylor, Marni R. Harrington, and Matt Ward
Douez v Facebook: Implications for Canadian Information Policy, Samuel E. Trosow
Submissions from 2016
Laying the Foundation for Copyright Policy and Practice in Canadian Universities, Lisa Di Valentino
Creating Communities of Care: Delineating Work in the Information-Care Relationship, Pam McKenzie and Nicole K. Dalmer
The HIM Career Matrix: Illuminating a Framework for Professional Advancement, Elaine M. Zibrowski and Kelly J. Adams
Submissions from 2015
Towards News Verification: Deception Detection Methods for News Discourse, Yimin Chen, Victoria L. Rubin, and Niall Conroy
Awareness and Perception of Copyright Among Teaching Faculty at Canadian Universities, Lisa Di Valentino
Professional and public: Shaping our online professional identities to tell our story, Marni Harrington
Multiple Temporalities in Personal Information Management, Pam McKenzie and Elisabeth Davies
Professional Identity and You: Why Self-Concept Matters in Librarianship, Kevin Tanner