SLIS students and faculty were represented at the 2010 annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science/L'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information (CAIS/ACSI) in Montreal, QC.
CAIS/ACSI is Canada's primary scholarly association in library and information science. We are proud of our student and faculty member presenters for their success in the competitive selection process.
- Socially positioning information hippies, Google-fu masters, and other volunteer tourists in Thailand: Effects and implications for information behaviour, by Kathleen Reed
- Shortcuts and dead ends: Control issues with online user-generated content, by Kathleen Reed, Peter Organisciak, and Alicia Hibbert
- Job seeking information behaviours of urban, Métis youth, by Sarah Dupont
- Exploratory interaction with information through visualization and semantics: Designing a visual user interface using the UNESCO multilingual thesaurus, by Ali Shiri, Stan Ruecker, Carlos Fiorentino, Amy Stafford and Matthew Bouchard
- Engaging students in information literacy: Curriculum planning from the group up, by Lisa Given and Heidi Julien
- The effects of information literacy instruction on business students, by Brian Detlor, Lorne Booker, Heidi Julien, and Alexander Serenko
- Ditch the smileys: Customizing a stopword list for email-based data, by Dinesh Rathi and Michael B. Twidale