Coursework

Courses Taken | Assignments | Co-op | Research Papers | Web Content

Courses Taken

Graduate courses in Library & Information Science (Faculty of Information & Media Studies, University of Western Ontario)

Cataloguing

  • Organization of Information (required) 85%

Collection Development

  • Collection Development 85%
  • Open Access: Implications for Academic Libraries and Librarians (individual study) 86%

Librarianship (misc.)

  • Academic Libraries 82%
  • Perspectives on Library and Information Science (required) 83%
  • Placing Users First: Designing for Real People (distance) 87%
  • Research Methods and Statistics (required) 85%

Management

  • Human Resources Management 88%
  • Managing and Working in Information Organizations (required) 82%

Reference and Instruction

  • Information Sources and Services (required) 85%
  • Information Sources for Business and Industry 77%
  • Instructional Strategies for Information Professionals 90%

Technology

  • Open Source Software for Libraries 81%
  • Social Software and Libraries (distance) 85%
  • Web Design and Architecture 82%

Graduate Courses in Sociology & Social Anthropology (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph)

  • Anthropological Theory 80%
  • Diversity and Social Equality 85%
  • Ethnographic Perspectives on Gender and Immigration (reading course) 88%
  • Gendered Perspectives on Immigration (reading course) 92%
  • Making Beds, Making Change: Hotel Workers Rising in Toronto (Major Research Paper) 94%
  • Qualitative Research Methods 80%
  • Work and Change in Global Context 87%

Other

Assignments

Collection Development

Opening day collection on Multiculturalism in Canada for a community college library. Budget: $2200.

Research Guides

Presentations

Co-op

End-of-Term Co-op Report: August 2008-April 2009 (PDF )

For samples of work completed at McMaster, refer to Professional Contributions

Research Papers

Independent Studies

  • MLIS Individual Study: The Open Access Librarian: Educating and Advocating for Change. Unpublished research paper, The University of Western Ontario. 2009. Download Abstract & Excerpt (PDF)
  • Graduate Major Research Paper: Making Beds, Making Change: Hotel Workers Rising in Toronto. Unpublished Major Research Paper, University of Guelph, Ontario. 2007. Download Abstract & Excerpt (PDF)
  • Undergraduate Thesis: The Lure of South Korea: Exploring the Contact Zones of Teaching English Abroad. Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. 2004. Download Abstract & Excerpt (PDF)

Select Short Essays (please contact me for a copy)

Library and Information Science:

  • Computer Servers and Kiosks?: Envisioning the Library of the Future
  • Dewey Decimal Classification and its Treatment of “Leprosy”
  • Embracing the Role of Librarian as Educator
  • Information Literacy 2.0: How Social Scholarship Is Opening Doors to Understanding
  • Investigating Innovation: How Academic Journals Speak to McMaster University Library’s Strategic Directions
  • Open Borders to Education: Providing library instruction to international MBA students (research proposal)
  • The Vanishing Academic Reference Librarians (?)
  • What makes a good manager?
  • What the Maclean’s Rankings Do Not Reveal About Libraries

Sociology & Social Anthropology:

  • Fashioning Viable Dissent: An Exploration of Community Unionism, Im/migrant Women and Homeworkers in the Canadian Garment Industry
  • The Global Citizenship Divide: Exploring the Construction of Non-Citizen Migrant Workers in Canada
  • No History Is an Island: Exploring Structural Theory in the Works of Marshall Sahlins
  • The Precarious Place of Immigrant Women’s Labour in the Canadian Workforce
  • Working for Change in the Global Economy: Ethnographic Perspectives on US Im/migration

Web Content

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 Social Software Blog: Blog entries compiled for a course on social software in libraries. Weekly contributions reflect on the content of the course, including reviews of a variety of readings, case studies and Web 2.0 technologies.

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 MLIS 2.0: Screen shot depicts part of the homepage of a social networking site created by myself and three fellow MLIS students using Ning.com for a project (no longer available).

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