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The inaugural winner of the fellowship, Rajat Bhateja is a second-year Masters of Information Studies student in the School of Information Studies, Faculty of Arts.

Published on: 16 Nov 2017

W., Chen, B-C., &Shu, F(accepted).Publish or impoverish: An investigation of the monetary reward system of science in China (1999-2016).Aslib Journal of Information Management.69(4)

Available at here

Published on: 26 Jul 2017

Écoutez Catherine Guastavino et Romain Dumoulin nous parler du projet de recherche La ville sonore (Sounds in the city) dans une entrevue réalisée à l’émission Les Années Lumières de Radio-Canada durant le 85ème congrès de l’ACFAS.

Published on: 16 May 2017

The goal of the proposed research is to investigate the metaliteracy knowledge and skills of millennials when seeking and using information not only for academia but also for their day-to-day lives. The metaliteracy construct encompasses the traditional scholarly information as well as alternative digital contents delivered through the Web, social media, wikis, blogs, etc. The target population of the study is the undergraduate students at different stages of their studies and across multiple disciplines.

Published on: 13 Apr 2017

Please see the ACFAS website for more information about the event

Published on: 10 Apr 2017

Dr. Catherine Guastavino, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, has received a 2016 SSHRC Insight Development Grant in collaboration with Ville de Montreal and Dumoulin Acoustics. Doctoral student Daniel Steele from the Multimodal Interaction Lab takes a leading role in the project. Visit for more information.

Published on: 10 Apr 2017

The American Library Association granted continued accreditation to our school in January 2017.

The full external review panel report can be seen here

Published on: 7 Feb 2017

Prof. Karyn Moffatt, Assistant Professor, ɬ﷬ School of Information has been awarded the Tier 2 – Canada Research Chair in Inclusive Social Computing

For more information please see the reporter article linked below

Published on: 13 Dec 2016

On October 18, 2016, as a Local Arrangement Chair, prof. Fungreceived the Service Award from the IEEE 2016 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA’2016). The award comes with free registrations for the conference in the next three years.

Prof. Fung would like to congratulate his PhD students at SIS who served as volunteers atthe conference, he shares this honour with them.

Published on: 25 Oct 2016

Congratulations to ɬ﷬ School of Information Studies PhD student Fei Shu on receiving a FRQSC Doctoral Fellowship.

Fei’s research investigates the difference between Web of Science and local Chinese bibliometric databases and contributes to understanding of whether international bibliometric databases can be used to evaluate national research performance.

Fei's supervisors are Dr. Charles-Antoine Julien and Dr. Vincent Larivière, EBSI, UdeM.

Classified as: Awards, Research, PhD Students, PhD in Information Studies
Published on: 28 Apr 2016

Announcing the Spring 2016 edition of the ɬ﷬ School of Information Studies newsletter, featuring updates about the School and achievements of our alumni, faculty, and students.

Download the Spring 2016 newsletter as a PDF via our website, or browse articles on our .

Classified as: alumni, Newsletter, publications
Published on: 26 Apr 2016

The ɬ﷬ School of Information Studies congratulates PhD in Information Studies student Fei Shu, recently selected for the iFellows Doctoral Fellowship program. Fei's thesis proposal was selected from a pool of applicants from 65 iSchools across the world. As an iFellow, Fei will receive a stipend of $50,000 USD over two years to pursue independent dissertation research that supports the goals of the Coherence at Scale Program.

Classified as: Awards, Research, PhD News, iSchools
Published on: 7 Mar 2016

ɬ﷬ School of Information Studies faculty member Dr. Benjamin Fung has been awarded a Canada Research Chair (CRC Tier 2) in Data Mining for Cybersecurity. Dr. Fung's research program aims to enhance the data sharing and data mining capabilities for healthcare and cyber security professionals.

CRC Tier 2 chairs are awarded to exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. For each Tier 2 Chair, the university receives $100,000 annually for five years.

Classified as: Research, Benjamin Fung
Published on: 12 Feb 2016

Since 2013, ɬ﷬ School of Information Studies graduate Marc-André Bernier (MLIS'11) has been providing services to deaf clients at the Montreal public library Bibliothèque Le Prévost.

Classified as: Alumni News
Published on: 25 Jan 2016

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