This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Library and Information Science, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Advancing Anti-Racism in Public Libraries for Black Youth in Canada, Amber Matthews
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Discourse, Power Dynamics, and Risk Amplification in Disaster Risk Management in Canada, Martins Oluwole Olu-Omotayo
Folk Theories, Recommender Systems, and Human-Centered Explainable Artificial Intelligence (HCXAI), Michael Ridley
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Exploiting Semantic Similarity Between Citation Contexts For Direct Citation Weighting And Residual Citation, Toluwase Victor Asubiaro
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The General Artificial Intellect, Ramon S. Diab
The Public Library as Past Become Space, Greg Nightingale
Making Sense of Online Public Health Debates with Visual Analytics Systems, Anton Ninkov
Information, Employment, and Settlement of Immigrants: Exploring the Role of Information Behaviour in the Settlement of Bangladesh Immigrants in Canada, Nafiz Zaman Shuva
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Accessibility And Academic Libraries: A Comparative Case Study, Claire Burrows
The Information Practices of New Kadampa Buddhists: From "Dharma of Scripture" to "Dharma of Insight", Roger Chabot
Narratives of Sexuality in the Lives of Young Women Readers, Davin L. Helkenberg
Strategic and Subversive: The Case of the Disappearing Diaphragm and Women’s Information Practices, Sherilyn M. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Informing care: Mapping the social organization of families’ information work in an aging in place climate, Nicole K. Dalmer
A Study of Six Nations Public Library: Rights and Access to Information, Alison Frayne
Information Freedoms and the Case for Anonymous Community, Rachel Melis
Academic Librarians and the Space/Time of Information Literacy, the Neoliberal University, and the Global Knowledge Economy, Karen P. Nicholson
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Expertise, Mediation, and Technological Surrogacy: A Mixed Method Critical Analysis of a Point of Care Evidence Resource, Selinda Adelle Berg
The E-Writing Experiences of Literary Authors, Kathleen Schreurs
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Understanding Collaborative Sensemaking for System Design — An Investigation of Musicians' Practice, Nadia Conroy
Laying the Foundation for Copyright Policy and Practice in Canadian Universities, Lisa Di Valentino
Different Approaches for Different Folks, Alexandre Fortier
Alternate Academy: Investigating the Use of Open Educational Resources by Students at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, Daniel Onaifo
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Contentious information: Accounts of knowledge production, circulation and consumption in transitional Egypt, Ahmad Kamal
Multilingual Information Access: Practices and Perceptions of Bi/multilingual Academic Users, Peggy I. Nzomo
Words to Live By: How Experience Shapes our Information World at Work, Play and in Everyday Life, Angela Pollak
Watching Storytelling: Visual Information in Oral Narratives, James Ripley
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Young adults reflect on the experience of reading comics in contemporary society: Overcoming the commonplace and recognizing complexity, Lucia Cederia Serantes
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Space, Power and the Public Library: A Multicase Examination of the Public Library as Organization Space, Matthew R. Griffis
Knowledge Organization Practices in Everyday Life: Divergent Constructions of Healthy Eating, Jill R. McTavish
Semantics-based Automated Quality Assessment of Depression Treatment Web Documents, Yanjun Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Making Sense of Document Collections with Map-Based Visualizations, Olga Buchel
A Critical Historical Analysis of the Public Performance Right, Louis J. D'Alton
Intellectual Property and Its Alternatives: Incentives, Innovation and Ideology, Michael B. McNally
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Information Practices of People Living with Depression: Constructing Credibility and Authority, Tami Oliphant