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The School of Information Studies (SIS), an academic unit in the Faculty of Arts at ĢƵ, invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the Assistant Professor rank. The anticipated start date is January 1, 2023. Qualified candidates should have a doctoral degree in information studies or equivalent. In addition, the ideal candidate will have a record of research publications in high quality, peer-reviewed journals, evidence of effective teaching, and clear promise of pursuing an interesting and innovative research agenda.

Published on: 2 May 2022

ĢƵ Employees from the Past: Community Builders for ĢƵ and Beyond

This exhibit was created by Adjunct Professor Gordon Burr with the aid of three talented Archival Outreach practicum students in the School of Information Studies, Gabrielle Machnick-Kekesi, Kiana Lemay and Julia Fekete. Their hard work, enthusiasm shown to help engage the public with archives and desire to provide narratives of these employees to fill the gaps or address the silences in historical acknowledgement of this ĢƵ community was remarkable.

Published on: 13 Apr 2022

Blog Contributions to the DRAW (Data Rescue Archives and Weather ) Participatory Archives by students in the 641 Archival Description and Access course taught by Gordon Burr are highlighted in the May postings.

Published on: 4 Jun 2021

Prof Catherine Guastavino's research on urban sounds has beenfeatured in the Radio Canada TV show édzܱٱ with the participation of several SIS students and post-docs from the Sounds in the city partnership.

The section on Sounds in the city, entitled À l'écoute de la ville, starts at 33 minutes.

Published on: 27 Apr 2021

MISSAhas organized SIS merchandise available for purchase online!

Orders can be placed online and shipped directory to your house

Click the link to view products and place your order

Published on: 29 Mar 2021

Dominique Robichaud has been awarded a Pathy Fellowship; the project started as a MITACS supervised by Prof Kimiz Dalkir and Dominique went on to collaborate with the First Nations group. Click the link to read more about the ĢƵ students who have earned fellowships

Dominique Robichaud| ĢƵ
Community:Wabanaki Nation, QC
Initiative:Waban-Aki Nation and Community Archives

Published on: 26 Mar 2021

Prof Dalkir was awarded the InternationalKnowledge Management award at a virtual ceremony held in December 2020!

Published on: 26 Jan 2021

Sounds in the City, a research partnership led by Dr. Catherine Guastavino at SIS, is investigating the effect of the pandemic on Montreal soundscapes.

Published on: 15 Dec 2020

The School of Information Studies is happy to announce 2 students Chloe Belair-Morin and Sarah Monnier as part of the Indigenous Student Librarian program. This programs offers a tuition waiver to an Indigenous student as well as part time employment as a student librarian or archivist at Concordia Library. The program is a partnership between ĢƵ, Concordia and Univesité de Montreal

Published on: 28 Sep 2020

ĢƵ jumps 12 places in global university rankings

In separate a ranking, 10 academic subjects at ĢƵ were rated among the top 50 in the world

Library and Information Studies ranked 38th globally and 2nd in Canada. More information in the reporter article here!

Published on: 19 Aug 2020

The School of Information Studies isvery pleased to announce that Prof. Benjamin Fung has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor. Prof. Fung is a stellar researcher and holder of the CRC Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity. He has an outstanding and seemingly unstoppable successful track record in grantsmanship. He is also a highly valued teacher and mentor to our students as well as someone who is ever at the ready to contribute to the SIS, ĢƵ and wider professional and practitioner communities. Our School is lucky to have him on board. Congratulations Prof Fung!

Published on: 17 Aug 2020

Prof Catherine Guastavino's research on quieted city sounds during lock down has been featured several times this past month in the news and on the radio. Read or listen more about this new research here!

Article:

· Leblanc, E. (2020, May 30). L’après-COVID-19: tirer les leçons de ce printemps silencieux. Radio-Canada. Retrieved from

Radio interviews:

Published on: 8 Jun 2020

SIS is very excited to welcome Gracen Brilmyer as Associate Professor (Special Category) starting August 1, 2020

Published on: 28 May 2020

Prof. Kimiz Dalkir will be part of a collaborative project to help Canadian citizens critically assess and become resilient against harmful online disinformation: ”Développement et expérimentation d’outils éducatifs pour contrer la désinformation en ligne chez les jeunes adultes”. The $205,742 project is funded for two years (2019-2021) by Canadian Heritage under the Digital Citizenship program and will be led by PI Prof. Colette Brin (Département d’information et de communication, Directrice, Centre d'études sur les médias) at Université Laval.

Published on: 21 May 2020

Tune in to hear Prof Guastavino discuss her research and the effects of noise pollution in the city. The interview will be available online a few days after the broadcast

Published on: 7 Feb 2020

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