Faculty Expertise

Individual SIM faculty members may be contacted to carry out contract projects or provide custom designed in-house training. The cost varies depending on duration of the project/training, materials required, and travel expenses.

For further information, contact one of the faculty members below:

Dr. Fiona Black
fiona.black@dal.ca

Administration and management issues
(goal and objective setting, management of information services, internal and external environment issues)
Client/patron instruction planning, delivery and evaluation
Continuing education for LIS in Canada, issues and current research
Reference sources and retrieval
(particularly public library service)
Remote reference services

Dr. Vivian Howard
vivian.howard@dal.ca

Collections management
(needs assessment, collections policy, selecting materials, evaluating the collection, weeding)
Communication
(oral and written communication skills)
Diversity
(recognition and response)
Services for children and young adults
(programming, outreach, collections development)

Dr. Bertrum MacDonald
bertrum.macdonald@dal.ca

Research planning and methods
Ethical issues in the field

Dr. Haidar Moukdad
haidar.moukdad@dal.ca

Database design
Multilingual web searching
Multimedia product development (includes digital imaging)
Web design (HTML)

Dr. Louise Spiteri
louise.spiteri@dal.ca

Cataloguing and metadata
Indexing and abstracting
Online searching
Records Management
Construction of taxonomies and thesauri
Construction of ontologies and classification systems
Social tagging and folksonomies