in Focus FALL 2008 SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES edition

THIS ISSUE

2 Message from the Director

3 Faculty News 6 Student News Convocation 8 Convocation Celebration 12 Alumni News Celebration 2008

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Fall 2008 Dear Alumni and Friends,

Editor Susann Allnutt hope this newsletter finds you well. Once again, I we bring you good news from the School of Editorial Advisor Information Studies (SIS). Our professors have Mark Ordonselli won new research grants; as of Fall 2008, seven professors were involved in 19 different funded Writers research projects. Our students have earned several Susann Allnutt new fellowships; four doctoral students beat out France Bouthillier stiff competition for scarce research funding. Our graduates continue to fill exciting posi- Peter McNally tions both in libraries and at many other institutions, corporations and agencies, as you will see in the Alumni News section of this newsletter. We are also very pleased to welcome Photographers a new assistant professor, Elaine Ménard, and a new professional associate, Edward Bilodeau. Susann Allnutt Last March, we hosted Candy Schwartz, BA’69, MLS’74, a professor at Simmons College Edward Bilodeau in Boston, who gave a lively and well-attended talk on activities and tools related to Library Fiona Tam 2.0. Summer 2008 was a very busy period for the international library community, both in and City, with the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Design Annual Conference. SIS sponsored an important IFLA satellite conference on youth services, Content and Collaboration which attracted more than 200 people. As well, we were delighted to learn that our proposal Solutions for a formal PhD program was approved by the Quebec government in August 2008. After several years of hard work, this outcome was indeed very welcome. Your comments and The upcoming year will also bring important changes and endeavours. The School is inquiries are welcome. planning to move into a newly renovated building that will provide more space for staff and Please direct them to: students. This year will also be devoted to preparation for the re-accreditation of our MLIS [email protected] program by the American Library Association. This process takes place every seven years and we look forward to meeting the External Review Panel in September 2009. Another Cover: important change at the School will be the departure of Professor John Leide, who will David Fontaine, MLIS’08, retire in January 2009 after nearly 30 years of teaching and research at the SIS. We will all his five-year-old son Tomas miss him and wish him the best in his retirement projects. and his wife Mylène Fortin My appointment as director has been renewed for another three years, and I look attend Convocation in forward to receiving yet more news from you, because it gives true meaning to everything May 2008. David Fontaine that we do! is the Division Head of Outreach and Communication I wish you a very rewarding year. at the municipal library in Brossard, Quebec.

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McGILL UNIVERSITY FACULTY NEWS

NEW RESEARCH GRANTS

rofessors Kimiz Dalkir, BSc’83, Professor Guastavino is also working with orking with Principal Investigator P MBA’85, and Jamshid Beheshti colleagues at the Université de Sherbrooke W Professor Martin Dawes (Family received a $36,000 grant from the Social to build an acoustic simulator that will Medicine, McGill University), Professor Sciences and Humanities Research Council replicate sound conditions in aircraft cabins Joan Bartlett is studying ways of refining of (SSHRC) to develop a theoreti- and cockpits. A total of $891,000 in fund- access to health information using a novel cal model for knowledge management in ing has been obtained from the National indexing approach. The research has higher education, particularly in relation to Sciences and Engineering Research obtained a $101,654 collaborative research the sharing and preservation of critical Council of Canada, the Consortium for grant from SSHRC, and is being under- know-how. Research and Innovation in Aerospace in taken in collaboration with other co-inves- Quebec, and the CAE and Bombardier tigators from McGill, McMaster and the corporations. Sound reproduction is an Université de Montréal. rofessor Catherine Guastavino, BSc’97, essential component in pilot training and P is a co-investigator on a collaborative adds ambience, emotion, and greater realism research project headed by Professor Ichiro for trainees. The research will provide a rofessor Eun Park is working with Fujinaga, MA’89, PhD’97, of McGill’s program of systematic evaluation of human P Professor Claudia Mitchell, of McGill’s Schulich School of Music. The project responses within a virtual environment. Faculty of Education, and Professor received a $59,454 grant from the Fonds de Naydene De Lange, of the University of recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) In addition, Professor Guastavino is work- KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, to study and will study ways to preserve and archive ing with 22 researchers at McGill’s Centre the digitization and management of visual musical recordings that are important to for Interdisciplinary Research in Music data. They have received a $41,782 grant Quebec’s heritage. The interdisciplinary Media and Technology (CIRMMT), from the National Research Foundation in project will investigate audio quality from which has obtained a six-year $1.8-million South Africa. a technical and perceptual point of view, in grant from the FQRSC and the Fonds the context of digitization. québécois de recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT).

ON THE MOVE As you may be aware, the School will be moving to 3661 Peel Street, beside the Faculty of Education, in the summer of 2009. This historic building currently houses units in the Faculty of Law, and was once the library for .

McGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES 3 PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

Professors Kimiz Dalkir and Eun Park have been both promoted to Several sessional lecturers and researchers have also been appointed the rank of Associate Professor. Professor Dalkir teaches and con- to the School: ducts research in the areas of knowledge management, communities ADJUNCT PROFESSOR: of practice and intellectual capital, while Professor Park is active in Joy Bennett, MLS’76, a consultant, is an expert on labour relations archival studies, metadata, and the management of electronic records. in libraries and will teach three courses at the School in 2008-09. Professor Catherine Guastavino was appointed Associate Director, AFFILIATE MEMBER: Science and Technology Research, at CIRMMT. Professor France Frances Groen, Trenholme Director of Libraries Emerita. Bouthillier has been appointed to a second three-year term as ASSOCIATE MEMBERS: School Director. Gordon Burr, BA’75, MLIS’98, Senior Archivist, Collection Management/Digital Services, McGill University Archives. Pierre Pluye, Associate Professor, Family Medicine, McGill University. Richard Virr, PhD’80, Curator of Manuscripts and Acting Head, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Library. NEW APPOINTMENTS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR worked as Director of Knowledge feedback. Emma also earned an MSc in Elaine Ménard, a Management. He has also been a Faculty Music Technology from the University of PhD candidate at the Lecturer in Career and Management Studies Limerick and a BA in Music and Université de and a User Interface/CSS Analyst at McGill. Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin. Montréal’s École de Ilja Frissen joined SIS in June 2008. He bibliothéconomie et des POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS is working on three projects: ENACTIVE sciences de l’informa- This year, for the first time, the School has Interfaces, the auditory perception of space tion, has been welcomed our first post-doctoral research project, and a new project on Soundfield appointed Assistant fellows, Emma Murphy and Ilja Frissen, rendering in aircraft cabins/cockpits. Ilja Professor at the both of whom are under the supervision of studied Cognitive Psychology (Cognitive School. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s Professor Catherine Guastavino. Emma Ergonomics) in his hometown at Maastricht degrees in translation as well as a Maîtrise Murphy joined the School in December University in the Netherlands. His Master’s en sciences de l'information degree, all from 2007, and works on perception-action cou- research at the TNO Human Factors the Université de Montréal. A very active pling in hearing and haptics in the Institute explored sound localization, and researcher and teacher, she brings expertise Multimodal Interaction Lab. Her project, he earned a PhD at Tilburg University in in knowledge organization, specifically in “Haptics, Sound and Interaction in the Experimental Psychology. His research was the areas of image indexing, controlled Design of Enactive Interfaces,” is funded by concerned with the interactions between vocabularies, information retrieval and mul- the Natural Sciences and Engineering auditory and visual spatial perception – the tilingual retrieval. Her doctoral dissertation Research Council of Canada, and involves so-called “ventriloquism effect.” After fin- is “a study on the influence of vocabulary collaboration with McGill’s Centre for ishing his PhD in 2005, Ilja went to the used to index images in a multilingual Interdisciplinary Research on Music, Media Max Planck Institute for Biological retrieval context.” and Technology, the Centre for Intelligent Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany for his Machines, and researchers from the first post-doctoral position, where he PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATE European 6th Framework Network of worked to develop an omnidirectional Edward Bilodeau, BSc’92, MLIS’06, has Excellence ENACTIVE Interfaces. treadmill that enables natural walking joined the School as our Professional Emma recently completed her PhD in through large virtual environments. At Associate, managing Human-Computer Interaction at the Sonic McGill, he examines perception-action cou- the IT lab and teach- Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University, pling in hearing and haptics and the audito- ing courses in Web Belfast. Her research focused on using non- ry perception of space. design and knowledge speech sounds in Web interfaces to convey management. Edward navigation and spatial information. This comes to the School project was part of a larger Multimodal from the Community Internet Access Project, which aims to make Foundations of the Internet more accessible to visually Canada, where he impaired users through audio and haptic

4 SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES McGILL UNIVERSITY John Leide

n December 31, 2008, a significant chapter in the life of the O School of Information Studies will close with the retirement of Professor John Leide. For 27 years – from his arrival in 1980 until his Study Leave this year – McGill and the School have been the happy beneficiaries of his excellent teaching, research, and other important contributions.

For more than a quarter century, John has dards of library education was widely program advisor, he is invariably attentive furthered the School’s strong tradition of appreciated, as seen in the number of site- and perceptive, and his knowledge of imbuing students with the importance of visit teams on which he served for the research methodology is balanced by a cataloguing and classification, and his American Library Association’s humanistic concern for the content of a courses enhanced McGill’s reputation for Committee on Accreditation. project. producing excellent cataloguers. His many Multiculturalism and internationalism Perhaps John’s greatest gift to the research grants and publications in related are central themes in John’s life, and since School has been his sunny disposition and topics, such as thesaurus construction, are joining McGill he has regularly attended good humour, even under trying circum- further manifestations of his commitment the annual meetings of the International stances. On the door of his office there are to the area. Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). two small posters. The first reads: “There A native of Wisconsin, John’s route to Chinese and Islamic cultures fascinate him are 10 kinds of people in the world: those McGill was circuitous. After studying and inspired many of his publications, and who understand binary and those who mathematics at the Massachusetts his work on Chinese language and classifi- don’t.” The second reads: “Non-Sequitur Institute of Technology, he received a cation is notable. In Montreal, he forged Society: We don’t make sense, but we love Master’s in Library Science from strong links with French-speaking librari- pizza.” And of course, who will ever forget Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD from ans and developed important joint the ring with the glass eye! Rutgers. His teaching career took him to research projects. We wish John much happiness and New York and Hawaii before his arrival John’s great concern for students mani- fulfillment in retirement. Two of his here. After the School’s conditional fests itself well beyond the classroom. For great interests are bound to blossom: accreditation in 1980, John’s strong back- many years, he has served as a faculty cooking and the Masonic Lodge! ground in library education proved advisor to the McGill Student Group of invaluable and he played an important the Special Libraries Association, and he is Professor Peter F. McNally role in the return to full accreditation in always happy to lend special assistance or a BLS’65, MLS’66, MA’77 1981. His dedication to the highest stan- word of advice to students. As a Master’s

e’d like to congratulate Professor Andy Large Wand his wife Val on the graduation of their daughter Kirsty, who earned a degree from McGill’s Faculty of Dentistry in May 2008. For the occasion, Professor Large donned his only suit!

McGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES 5 MLIS Student News and Activities

MLIS PRACTICUM WEB 2.YOU WORKSHOP Student members of the Special Libraries Association’s McGill chapter, along with librarians from the Howard Ross Library of Management, hosted a day-long workshop entitled “Web 2.you: A Workshop for Information Professionals,” in February. Jessamyn West of www.librarian.net spoke about “Web2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0,” and John Dupuis, MLIS’00, of York University high- lighted the possibilities of “Blogging for Professional Development.” Maya Kucij, MLIS’08 Rajiv Johal, BCom’99, MLIS’03, and Beth Dunning, MLIS’06, of the The MLIS practicum went through a major revision this Howard Ross Library explored searching and the Internet, and Amy year, expanding to include practicum placements in all three Buckland, MLIS’08, and Janis Dawson, MLIS’08, presented on streams and project-based work. A visual presentation is libraries in virtual worlds. The workshop was attended by more than now required at the end of the practicum, with practicum 50 academic, public and government librarians. supervisors and students invited to a lively, informative “show and tell” poster session.

SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES Please join us in congratulating our recent scholarship and prize recipients. These awards are made possible through the generosity of our alumni and friends of the School. The total amount awarded in the 2007-08 academic year was $53,450.

2007-2008 SCHOLARSHIPS 2007-2008 PRIZES Azelie de Lendrecie Clark Award Elizabeth G. Hall Scholarship Margery Trenholme Memorial Teresa Troide Prize for Excellence Eric Erickson Kirsten Huhn Award in Library Studies in Information Studies Eric Joly Rachel Daly Shazia Ahmad Barbara Graw Smythe Award in Maya Kucij Miriam H. Tees Scholarship Margaret Downey Prize Library & Information Studies Sarah Anderson Ute Wilkinson Rosanne Lester H.W. Wilson Foundation Katie Hollohan Scholarship Bernard Anderson Ower Award Benyamin Paris Dr. Herbert Stanley Birkett Patricia Keir Award Award Jan Sandink Sahar Rai Vanessa Sparks Marie-Line Champoux-Lemay David D’Angelo Centenary Prize Vivi Martin Fellowship Virginia Murray Prize for Casey Wight Janet Agnew Scholarship Rita Benitez Cataloguing Krista Bialo Dr. G.R. Lomer Scholarships Sean Benjamin McGill Recruitment Excellence Sara Anderson Jean Brown Scholarship Jennie Ferris Fellowship Anne Galler Award (formerly Andrea Puhl Jennifer Hoyer Eastern Canada Chapter SLA Prize) Jennifer Ricard Jessica Lange Katherine Hanz Sean Benjamin Catherine Martin Margery Trenholme Fellowship Jillian Tomm

6 SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES McGILL UNIVERSITY McGILL ACA COLLOQUIUM

cGill’s student chapter of the Association of Canadian management in the Canadian government,” and Bruce Smith, M Archivists held an all-day colloquium in April on the theme “Organic archives.” The highlight of the event was a plenary delivered of “Tradition to Innovation.” Archival Studies students who pre- by Professor Terry Cook of the Archival Studies program at the sented papers were Mary Flynn, “Archival practices in Africa,” University of Manitoba, who discussed the changing role of Vanessa Franco, “Blogs, wikis and records management,” Jennifer archivists in the 21st century. Murray, “Moving images in an archive,” Elaine Radman, “Records

ANNUAL CAREER FAIR

ach year the McGill Library and EInformation Studies Student Association organizes a Career Fair and welcomes participants from libraries and other organizations to McGill to meet our graduating stu- dents. This year, the Career Fair took place on March 6, 2008.

MLIS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Shazia Ahmad, BA’04, MLIS’08, was Janelle Ramsay, MLIS I, was selected as the facing archivists in Samoa and Malaysia, awarded the newly established Teresa Troide 2008 SIS student representative to the among others, and how they have managed Prize for Excellence in Information Studies, Canadian Library Association Conference their organizations. For Trudi, the conference for achieving the highest academic standing in . Janelle was also selected for highlighted the different ways that national among MLIS students over two years. The an internship at the United Nations head- archivists in developed and developing countries award was created last year in memory of quarters in New York. meet challenges and generate solutions. Teresa Troide, MLIS’90, with the generosity of her husband Lars Troide, a former Marie-Lou Riberdy, MLIS I, received the English professor at McGill. Ms. Troide Professional Leadership Award from the was an alumna of the School who worked McGill Education Graduate Students’ as an information specialist at Canadian Society for her contribution to the School Pacific and Canadian National Railways. as the president of BASIS (Bilingual Aspirations of the School of Information Amy Buckland, MLIS’08, was nominated Studies). The award “recognizes a student by the Library Journal as one of the Movers who has applied his/her academic learning and Shakers in the library and information and made a distinctive contribution to the studies community for her involvement in profession or wider community.” Second Life, an online virtual space where libraries can offer services. Amy was also the Trudi Wright, MLIS’08, was selected by co-editor of the Library Student Journal in SIS and supported by Library and Archives 2007-2008. Canada to attend the 40th International Natalie Ceeney, Chief Executive, National Archives UK, Conference of the Round Table on Archives Trudi Wright, MLIS’08, and Ian Wilson, Librarian and Jennie Ferris, MLIS I, was one of the win- (CITRA) in Quebec City. CITRA was co- Archivist of Canada, at the CITRA conference ners of McGill's “Cut the Red Tape” con- hosted in November 2007 by Library and test. She brought attention to inefficiencies Archives Canada and the Bibliothèque et in the student loan process at McGill. Archives nationales du Québec in Quebec City. Trudi learned about the challenges

McGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES 7 CONVOCATION CELEBRATION

Graduate Catherine Martin with Prof. Jamshid Beheshti Graduate Jean Marc Tremblay and friend

Graduate Deborah Ray and Family Graduates Barbara Whiston and Vera Granikov Graduates Janis Dawson and Amy Buckland

Prof. Eun Park with graduates Shazia Ahmad and Mary Flynn Applause for graduates at convocation celebration

Graduates Julie Jones and Nicole Tummon Graduate Kirsten Huhn with Prof. Andrew Large Graduates Angela Schade and Jessica Roy

8 SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES McGILL UNIVERSITY DOCTORAL STUDENT NEWS

THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM AT THE In August 2008, Quebec’s Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport approved the SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES creation of an official PhD program at the School, an acknowledgement of the accom- The first doctoral candidate was accepted to the School in 1991, under the plishments of the past 17 years. The program ad hoc provisions of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. Since then, will start in September 2009. 15 doctoral degrees have been conferred. See www.mcgill.ca/sis/programs/phd

Valerie Nesset, behaviour, particularly with children in research experience as a research assis- MLIS’02, a doctoral an educational context. Her dissertation tant, under the direction of Professor candidate, was work, “The Information Behaviour of Andrew Large, in the areas of children's awarded the third Grade-Three Students in the Context of Web portal design, virtual environments prize in the doctoral a Class Project,” studied children over a and visualization, and has authored or student poster com- three-month period. In addition to her co-authored more than 25 publications. petition at the 2008 PhD studies, Valerie has been a sessional She has presented several papers to the ALISE (Association lecturer at SIS for the past five years, Canadian Association of Information for Library and Information Science teaching the first-year course on Science, as well as posters at ALISE. She Education) conference in Philadelphia. "Information and Society." In 2005 she is the current chair of the ALISE nomi- More than 60 doctoral students competed. received the J.W. McConnell McGill nating committee and has been a member Valerie has joined the faculty at the Major Fellowship, and in 2006 was the of several boards both at SIS and in the University of Buffalo’s Department of recipient of a Fonds Québécois de la Faculty of Education, as a student Library and Information Studies, and recherche sur la société et la culture representative. her research focuses on information (FQRSC) fellowship. She has extensive

or 2008-09, four doctoral students received external fellowships and awards. Charles-Antoine Julien, Fa doctoral candidate working with Professor John Leide on the visualization of information, and Jillian Tomm, BMus’97, MLIS’02, a doctoral student working with Professor Peter McNally on the work of Raymond Klibansky, received FQRSC doctoral fellowships. Rafa Absar, MSc’06, a doctoral student supervised by Professor Catherine Guastavino, was awarded a similar fellowship from the Fonds québé- cois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies, to study the use of non-speech sounds in multi- modal interfaces. These fellowships, from the Quebec government, provide $20,000 per year and are very competitive. Another doctoral student supervised by Professor Joan Bartlett, Lorie Kloda, BA’98, MLIS’01, received the Canadian Library Association’s World Book Graduate Scholarship in Library and Information Science. Lorie, who is studying the information practices of rehabilitation therapists and who worked as a medical librarian before her doctoral studies, was also awarded the 2008 Thomson Scientific/Medical Library Association Doctoral Fellowship.

Yusuke Ishimura, who entered the doctoral program in the fall of 2007, received a Max Stern Recruitment Fellowship.

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McGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES 9 Spotlight on 2007-08 PhD graduates

LEANNE BOWLER well, she is developing a new library servic- et la culture. He later obtained a research es course focusing on developmental theo- grant from the Social Sciences and BA’80, MLS’82, MEd’00, ry and library principles and practice in Humanities Research Grants PhD’07 early childhood. She recently presented a Subcommittee at McGill to study the paper at the Congress of Social Sciences information behaviour of competitive and Humanities in Vancouver, and will be intelligence professionals. giving a presentation at the Medicine 2.0 Following the completion of his PhD, conference in Toronto this fall on health Tao began work as an Assistant Professor websites for teens. in the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University.

TAO JIN MLIS’02, PhD’08 AUDREY LAPLANTE PhD’08 Tao Jin has worked as an international news translator and editor at China Central Television, and as an associate edi- tor at Dow Jones & Company’s Beijing Office, before moving to Canada to pursue graduate studies. His research interests centre on competitive intelligence, human Leanne Bowler and supervisor Andrew Large information behaviour, webometrics, and After earning two Master’s degrees and business information management. Since working as a children’s librarian for several 2003, he has published several articles in years, Leanne decided to continue her the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and studies at the doctoral level, focusing on Management and the Online Information the information-seeking behaviour of Review. He has delivered presentations at young people. various conferences, and in 2005 was As a doctoral student, Leanne partici- awarded a doctoral fellowship from the pated in a number of intriguing research Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société projects, including one led by Andrew Large which developed educational Web portals for children using “bonded design,” Audrey Laplante with supervisor John Leide a collaborative design methodology. She also worked closely with McGill’s Audrey received her Bachelor’s degree in Indonesian Social Equity Project, coordi- Music Performance in 1999 and a Master’s nating the Summer Institute in School degree in Information Science in 2001, Librarianship – a program designed for vis- both from the Université de Montréal. She iting Indonesian librarians and instructors began her doctoral studies at the School in – and running two workshops on school 2002, and one year later was awarded a librarianship in Indonesia last summer. doctoral research scholarship from the Over the past three years, Leanne has Social Sciences and Humanities Research taught several courses as an Assistant Council of Canada. Professor at the School. She is currently an During her doctoral studies, Audrey Assistant Professor at the School of worked as a music librarian at both Information Sciences, University of and the Université Pittsburgh, where she is responsible for the de Montréal. At McGill, she participated in various research projects, including one Children’s/Young Adult Specialization. As Tao Jin with supervisor France Bouthillier

10 SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES McGILL UNIVERSITY under the supervision of Professor France Emeka acquired work experience in Bouthillier focusing on the development of libraries at the Saints Peter and Paul Major an information service model for small Seminary library from 1995 to 2001, and businesses in public libraries. As a sessional established a library management consul- lecturer, she taught several courses related tancy firm in Nigeria – Data-Dean to library systems and information retrieval Informatics Ltd. – where he served as at McGill and the Université de Montréal. Consultant Librarian and CEO until he Audrey’s research interests include came to Canada to pursue his doctoral information behaviour and music informa- studies. As a consultant librarian, he tion retrieval. She has made presentations helped establish automated library systems at a number of conferences and has pub- at a number of government, academic, lished several articles in the journal Argus. research and other not-for-profit libraries. In June 2008, Audrey joined the École At McGill, he taught information system de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’infor- design as a sessional lecturer in the fall of Supervisor Kimiz Dalkir with Erica Wiseman mation at the Université de Montréal as an 2003 and has served as a teaching assistant Assistant Professor. at the School and a research assistant on Management and the Administrative the INIIReye System and ENVI Projects. Sciences Association of Canada conferences. Emeka has made presentations at vari- In 2006, Erica was a young scholar on a ous conferences, and his research interests SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster include information technology, database grant, which resulted in the establishment CHUKWUEMEKA (EMEKA) of the Canadian Business Ethics Research DEAN NWAKANMA management, LIS education, library sys- tems analysis/management and compe- Network, bridging research and practice in PhD’08 tence taxonomies. He has published in the business ethics, corporate social responsi- African Journal of Library, Archives and bility and sustainable development. Erica is Information Science and in the Canadian also a member of the Research Network Journal of Information and Library Science. for Business Sustainability. She has consulted in the areas of organi- zational learning, KM strategy development, metrics, and corporate social responsibility with organizations such as Hydro-Québec, Canada’s Department of National Defense, ERICA WISEMAN Oxfam Québec and the United Nations BA’99, MLIS’03, PhD’08 Convention for Biological Diversity. Erica is in the process of designing an Erica conducted her PhD in knowledge information management strategy for a management (KM) under the supervision sustainability research company as well as a of Professor Kimiz Dalkir, and was awarded framework for sustainability reporting in doctoral fellowships from both the Social Canadian universities. Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds Québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture. Chukwuemeka Nwakanma with supervisor Erica has contributed to more than 15 Jamshid Beheshti journals and conferences, and in 2007 was Emeka completed his BSc in Education at awarded the McMaster World Congress Abia State University in 1993 and his Best Paper Award for her paper on KM MLIS at the University of Ibadan in 1998, measurement models and methods at the both in Nigeria. He was a Commonwealth Department of National Defense. Her Scholar during his PhD studies from 2001 research on sustainable development has to 2005. been presented at the Academy of

McGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES 11 ALUMNI NEWS

University Libraries, on behalf of the Alumni Appreciation Award Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science In what is now an annual tradition, the School pre- and Technology Library. sented its Alumni Appreciation Award at Convocation. This year’s winner was Christine Hiller, MLIS’87, a Anne Wade, MLIS’86, a Manager and project manager at the Conférence des recteurs et des Information Specialist at the Centre for the principaux des universités du Québec, who has been Study of Learning and Performance active on the School’s Curriculum Committee. She is (CSLP) at Concordia University, was the also on our Ad Hoc Committee on Re-Accreditation. winner of the American Psychological Association’s 2008 Excellence in Librarianship Award. The prize was pre- Christine Hiller with Prof. France Bouthillier sented at the Education and Behavior Sciences Research Forum at the annual meeting of the American Library 1950s 1960s Association in June. She is also Project Coordinator of the Inquiry Strategies for Marion Jarman, BLS’50, of Calgary, visit- Gerald Glass, BLS’62, sold his Academic the Information Society in the Twenty-First ed the School with her daughter Nancy in and General Book Shop in Montreal in Century at the CSLP and a Director of the August 2008. As Marion observed, there 2003 after running and owning it for 40 Board of the Quebec Library Association. were no computers when she was here. years! He spends his time reading, listening to music, attending conferences and engag- ing in political activities. He is also work- 1990s ing on his fifth book, an autobiographical novel. He was very excited to announce Terry Ann Smith, BA’88, BEd’90, the arrival of his first granddaughter, MLIS’93, returned to full-time work as a Sophie Victoria, in February 2007. Knowledge Management Analyst at Health Canada, where she identifies and imple- Emily Anne Ryan, BLS’64, retired after ments knowledge management opportuni- 14 years as a high school librarian. She says ties. She had taken time off after the birth that working with youngsters was very of her twin girls, and is also the proud rewarding and kept her busy. mom of two boys.

Marie Missyabit Whattam, MLIS’94, is the Manager, Aboriginal and Corporate BLS’57 alumnae visiting for 150th 1970s Resourcing, at Indian and Northern Affairs anniversary Canada. She has worked there since In the fall of 2007, the Faculty of Jean-Jacques LeBlanc, MLS’79, was rec- August 2007. Education celebrated its 150th anniversary. ognized as the University of Ottawa’s first Visiting for the Homecoming event were Librarian Emeritus in November 2007. Patrick Lo, MLIS’94, serves as the Music some alumnae, who took time from their The event also marked the launch of his Cataloguing Librarian at the Chinese busy schedules to drop by the School. Dictionnaire biographique des cardinaux du XIXe siecle, published by Wilson & Lafleur. University of Hong Kong.

Roman Panchyshyn, BA’86, MLIS’97, is 1980s working as the Catalog Librarian in Library & Media Services at Kent State Robert J. Craig, MLS’81, reports that he University in Ohio. is working in the Learning and Access Services unit of the Library of Parliament. Michel-Adrien Sheppard, BA’85, MLIS’99, From left to right: Barbara Luce Mumford, BLS’57, has been working as a reference librarian at Ariane Lee McLean, BA’56, BLS’57, Margaret McLetchie Robert O’Neil, MLS’84, accepted an the Supreme Court of Canada since Nichols, BA’56, BLS’57, and Barbara Grossman Innovation Achievement Award from the McAlpine, BLS’57. Canadian Association of College and

12 SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES McGILL UNIVERSITY September 2005. He lives in Ottawa with University of Manitoba’s Neil John Documentary section of the Bibliothèque et his wife Viviane Katz, a graphic designer. MacLean Health Sciences Library. Archives nationales du Québec, as well as reference librarian at the St. Leonard Amy Buckland, MLIS’08, is now a Public Library, part of the Montreal net- 2000s Liaison Librarian at McGill’s Howard Ross work of public libraries. Library of Management. She presented a Sulaiman Al-Reyaee, PhD’07, welcomed paper at the 2008 International Federation David D’Angelo, MLIS’08, has been McGill Principal Heather Munroe-Blum in of Library Associations and Institutions appointed Knowledge Management Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she was dis- conference in Quebec City, and again in Specialist and Canadian Taxonomist at cussing possible collaboration with Saudi Monterey, California in late October. She Deloitte & Touche in Toronto. universities. Al-Reyaee is Co-Director of is also the publisher of the Library Student the University Quality Enhancement and Journal and a co-convenor of the Canadian Ahniwa Ferrari, MLIS’08, is working at Assurance Center and Assistant Professor Library Association’s Emerging the Washington State Library as an online at the School of Information Studies at Technologies Interest Group. resources consultant. His main responsibil- IMSI University in Riyadh. ity is coordinating the state-wide virtual Remi Castonguay, MLIS’00, has been reference cooperative. He also helps coor- Tania Aldred, BA’04, MLIS’07, is working appointed Public Services Project Librarian dinate the state’s database catalog and as an Assistant Documentalist at the at the Sterling Memorial Library and licensing, and is implementing an audio- Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Music Library at Yale University. He is book program. Quebec. An article based on a paper she pre- responsible for providing digital access to sented at the Association of Canadian online and print resources and improving Mary Flynn, MLIS’08, is an archival Archivists annual conference in 2007 will library content and services online. He also intern at the University of Alberta in appear in volume 66 of the 2008 Archivaria. creates instructional resources and research Edmonton. She works at the Bruce Peel guides in various disciplines and instructs Special Collections Library. Shazia Ahmad, BA’04, MLIS’08, has researchers in the use of new technologies. worked as a Records Administrator at the David Fontaine, MLIS’08, has been Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Teodora Constantinescu, MLIS’06, is appointed Division Head for Coordination Association since June 2008. now the solo librarian at the Dr. Henry and Communications at the Brossard Kravitz Psychiatry Library, serving the Library. He is responsible for all programs Ryan Ban, MLIS’08, is working as a information needs of staff and students of and the marketing tools at the Library, and Records & Information Analyst at the the Jewish General Hospital’s psychiatry is acting head of reference for 2008, with a Regional Municipality of York in department and its affiliated programs and team of ten librarians and four library Newmarket, Ontario. departments. technicians. Other duties include the development and implementation of a Jacqueline Barlow, MLIS’08, is a Special Janis Dawson, MLIS’08, is employed at multicultural services project, English Projects Librarian at the Osler Library of the Marvin Duchow Music Library at acquisitions and an English story hour. He the History of Medicine at McGill. She is McGill as a casual employee. She plans to can be reached at working on the Cushing Digitization Project, move to Toronto to pursue a career as an [email protected]. a McGill pilot project that will digitize one academic librarian, and continues to work of the library’s photographic collections on reference services in Second Life, an Vanessa (Diane) Franco, MLIS’08, has and make it accessible online. She is online virtual world. Her blog can be been appointed the Career Resource responsible for supervising the digitization found at www.jandawson.wordpress.com. Consultant at McGill’s Career and of materials, applying metadata to these Placement Services. digital images, and composing Web text. Brenda Labelle, MLIS’07, following seven months as Head of the Documentation Nicole Gaston, MLIS’08, is on a one-year Karen Biskin, MLIS’08, is working as a Centre at Lasalle College in Montreal, has volunteer contract as the Information reference librarian at Concordia University. obtained a position at the Library of Literacy Project Coordinator at the Central Parliament. Library of the National University of Laos. Michelle Brown, MLIS’08, is a Reference/Outreach Librarian at the Marie-Chantal L'Ecuyer-Coelho, MLIS’08, is a Librarian in the

McGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES 13 ALUMNI NEWS

Matthew Geeza, MLIS’08, is an Associate December 21, 2006, at St. Michael’s Trudi Wright, MLIS’08, gave birth to Librarian at the Mercersburg Academy in Hospital in Toronto. After enjoying a year- Evelyn (Evie) Tamar Crump on June 2, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. long maternity leave, Hana returned to 2008, in Hamilton, Ontario. Trudi would work in January 2008 as the Korea Studies like to thank peers and professors at SIS Kyla Jemison, MLIS’08, is a music librari- Collection and Services Librarian in the for their support over the last year; it has an at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta. Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library at the been very much appreciated. In the midst University of Toronto. She was awarded a of all this, Trudi has also secured a position Robert Kelly, MLIS’03, is the Collections WNBA Eastman grant in 2007. as a Records and Information Librarian at the Redwood Library and Management Officer for the St. Athenæum in Newport, Rhode Island, the Maya Kucij, MLIS’08, is now a Liaison Catharine’s Office of the Ministry of oldest continuously open lending library in Librarian at McGill’s Education Library. Transportation of Ontario. the U.S. Prior to this, he was the Assistant Director and Reference Librarian at Corina MacDonald, MLIS’08, is a Central Falls Public Library and a Digital Heritage Information Analyst at the Services Librarian at Providence College. Canadian Heritage Information Network Before moving to the United States in in Gatineau, Quebec. early 2004, he completed a seven-month internship at the Pearson Peacekeeping Catherine Martin, MLIS’08, has been Centre library, formerly located in appointed the Liaison Librarian at McGill’s Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, where he helped Marvin Duchow Music Library. develop a digital library initiative and pro- vided reference services. He is also active in Cameron McKay, MLIS’08, is on a tem- the Rhode Island Library Association as porary assignment at the Newfoundland the Membership Chair and a Member-at- Legislative Library. In September he began Large, and is the Vice-President/President- an MA in Political Science at Dalhousie Elect of Rhode Island’s chapter of the University. LOC Center for the Book initiative. He can be reached at [email protected]. Rui Miao, MLIS’07, works as a Project Assistant in the British Library. Her work Hana Kim, MLIS’03, and her husband focuses on LIFE 2, a digital preservation Patrick Emmenegger are proud to project. announce the birth of their first child. Ari Emmeneger-Kim was born on Melanie Sucha, MLIS’07, is an Information Management Specialist at Micro Works, an IT firm. Melanie coordi- nates clients’ IM, KM and document man- agement projects. She married Jan-Olaf Bakker in February 2008.

Fiona Tam, MLIS’04, has taken a position as Project and Portfolio Manager at Content and Collaboration Solutions (CCS) at McGill. CCS is a new IT initia- tive that addresses a range of Web and design-related issues and services and assists the McGill community with Web content, collaboration tools and document management solutions.

Nicole Tummon, MLIS’08, is a Cataloguing Librarian at the Supreme Court of Canada.

14 SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES McGILL UNIVERSITY IN MEMORIAM

Bohdan Kazymyra, BLS’56, passed away in Regina, Ivor Newsham, BLS’61, passed away in North Saskatchewan, in February 2007. He held the position of Battleford, Saskatchewan, in February 2007. Our sympathies Librarian and Archivist at the University of Regina prior to his go to his family and friends. retirement in 1981, and is survived by his wife Elizabeth, daughters Nadia and Marta, son Dmytro and eight grandchil- Helen Rubin (née Lapkoff), BA’66, MLS’68, passed dren. Our sympathies go to Elizabeth Kazymyra and her family. away on February 1, 2008. Our sympathies go to her family.

orn and raised in Montreal, Effie of burns during World War II. The file on B Astbury, BA’38, BLS’39, came from a burns, in particular, received wide distribu- EFFIE family that took education very seriously. tion due to its comprehensiveness. In 1944 Both her parents were graduates of Mount she published a major bibliographical com- CONSTANCE Allison University, where her mother even- pilation of the 1,000 cases analyzed in tually became head of the Household Maude Abbott’s Atlas of Congenital Science Department, and her father, John Cardiac Disease. ASTBURY Astbury, MA’38, later earned an honorary In 1949 she joined the faculty of the Professor Emerita, School of doctorate. The family settled in Montreal Library School lecturing on Reference Information Studies because of John’s teaching career, which cul- Service and Bibliography. At that time, fac- December 9, 1916 – May 22, 2008 minated in his becoming Principal of Baron ulty were recruited exclusively from among Byng High School, immortalized by School graduates who had distinguished Mordecai Richler as “Fletcher’s Field High.” themselves professionally in the McGill John is generally regarded as responsible for libraries. In addition, until the late 1960s, developing the School’s fine academic the School’s professors were invariably reputation. women whose dedication and energy After graduating in 1934 from ensured that the School flourished despite Outremont’s Strathcona Academy, where lean financial circumstances. In the over- among other things she was awarded four whelmingly male environment that charac- medals and edited the school yearbook, Effie terized McGill and other universities of the came to McGill and graduated in Classics, period, this small band of women proceed- magna cum laude, in 1938. On the advice ed politely, cautiously and determinedly. of her father – who admired greatly the They were courageous visionaries who work of the Librarian at Baron Byng – Effie transformed both the School and Canadian entered McGill’s Library School, earning a library education. Bachelor of Library Science in 1939. The faculty of this period set two major Upon graduation, she joined the staff of goals, aiming to both raise the School’s aca- the McGill Medical Library, where from demic standards and improve the academic 1939 to 1949 she distinguished herself as qualifications of its faculty members. One an outstanding Reference Librarian. Credit major triumph involved replacing the one- for her stellar performance, she insisted, was year BLS with a two-year, four-term Master due entirely to her academic background – of Library Science program – the School’s studying Latin and Greek provided a basis first professional degree. Inaugurated in for medical terminology, she said, and 1965, it is a unique Canadian contribution Professor Kathleen Terroux’s Zoology course to library education and has been adopted gave her the rudiments of science. Others as the standard by other schools in Canada, were impressed, however, by how intelli- the U.S. and elsewhere. Effie played a cen- gently, competently, and energetically she tral role in this initiative. At the same time, carried out her professional duties and along with the other faculty of this period, responsibilities. Among her initiatives was she earned an advanced degree – a Master the creation of files on new medical treat- of Library Science from the University of ments such as penicillin and the handling Toronto – in 1956. She held a seat in

McGILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL of INFORMATION STUDIES 15 McGill’s Senate from 1971 to 1974 and For Effie’s many students, her greatest Effie Constance Astbury will long be served on the Councils of the Canadian contributions were as a dedicated and inspi- remembered for her many fine qualities and Association of College and University rational teacher. Her shyness was balanced her outstanding contributions to McGill Libraries, the Canadian Library Association, by a warm smile, infectious enthusiasm, University and the School of Information and the Quebec Library Association. She quiet humour and thorough professional- Studies. Surmounting difficulties and over- also played a central role in the creation of ism. In the end, her very shyness became a coming adversity became her hallmark. She the Corporation of Professional Librarians central element in her success as a teacher. possessed grace, dignity, integrity and moral of Quebec. Students sensed intuitively that as a teacher authority. She was a good and loyal friend. In recognition of her great contributions and librarian, she was able to do things that Our sympathies go to her family and to the School and the University, Effie was most people would find impossible. Her friends. promoted in 1969 to the rank of full pro- high standards and superbly organized fessor. From 1972 to 1976 she served as the courses made her a role model for genera- Peter F. McNally School’s Director, and successfully shep- tions of librarians. She shared her dedica- Professor herded the Master’s program through re- tion to the very highest standards of librari- School of Information Studies accreditation under the American Library anship and library education with thou- Association’s dramatically revised standards. sands of graduates. Composed with the support of the Astbury- In 1979, ill health forced her to retire early, Her retirement was spent at the Griffith Smith Family but in 1982 she was awarded the rank of McConnell Home in Côte St. Luc, where Professor Emerita. Following her retire- she served as President of the Residents’ ment, two of Effie’s most important schol- Association and sat on the Residence’s arly contributions were published by the Board of Governors. Wide-ranging reading Graduate School of Library Science: – including magazines, mysteries and Iris -Casey A. Wood (1856-1942): Murdoch – continued until her final illness. Ophthalmologist, bookman, ornithologist: a Her admiration for the Maritime author bio-bibliography, 1981. Ernest Buckler became a close personal -Canada and the Second World War: The home friendship. front and war aims: a bibliography, 1991.

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