Louise Spiteri
Associate Professor/MLIS Academic Program Director

Education

BA, MA (York), BEd (Toronto), MLIS (Western), PhD (Toronto)

Courses Offered

INFO 5515 Organization of Information
INFO 6330 Cataloguing and Classification
INFO 6640 Electronic Access to Information
INFO 6350 Indexing and Abstracting
INFO 6370 Records Management

Research Interests

• Subject analysis systems
• Classification theory
• Thesaurus construction and Indexing

Thesis

Design of a Measuring Instrument to Evaluate the Structural Quality of Faceted Thesauri. PhD Thesis: University of Toronto. 1996.

Refereed Publications

Journal Articles

The use of folksonomies in public library catalogues. The Serials Librarian (forthcoming).

The Classification Research Group and the theory of integrative levels. The Katherine Sharp review. [http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/summer1995.spiteri.html]

Measuring the impact of information on development: Toronto pilot project. Toronto: Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, 1996

Library & information science vs. business: a comparison of approaches to abstracting. The indexer, 20(4), 197-208.

The use of facet analysis in information retrieval thesauri: an examination of selected guidelines for thesaurus construction. Cataloging & classification quarterly, 25(1), 21-38.

A simplified model for facet analysis: Ranganathan 101. Canadian journal of information and library science, 23(1/2), 1-30.

The essential elements of faceted thesauri. Cataloging and classification quarterly, 28(4), 31-52.

Access to electronic commerce sites on the World Wide Web: an analysis of the effectiveness of six Internet search engines. Journal of information science, 26(3),173-184.

Information architecture of business-to-consumer e-commerce Web sites: the online catalogue of selected video retailers. Journal of information science, 27(4), 239-248.

The use of word association in the construction of information retrieval thesauri: a pilot study. Cataloguing & classification quarterly (forthcoming).

Word association testing and thesaurus construction. Libres, 14(2) [http://libres.curtin.edu.au/]

Conference Papers, Invited Presentations, and Workshops

"MARC 21." Atlantic Provinces Library Association. Annual Conference, 2004.  Moncton, NB.

"Metadata." Nova Scotia Digital Collections Initiative workshop: "Bringing Resources to the Public: Steps in Planning and Implementing an Online Project, " 2005. Halifax, NS.

"Folksononimes and controlled vocabularies." Library and Archives Canada forum on metadata. 2005.  Ottawa, ON.

"Records management." Nova Scotia Association of Professional Councellors. Mount Saint Vincent University, 2005. Halifax, NS.     

"Records management."  South Shore Regional Hospitals. 2005. White Point, NS.

"Filing Systems." Annapolis Valley Regional Hospital. 2006. Kentville, NS. 

"The use of collaborative tagging in public library catalogues." Canadian Library Association. 2006. Ottawa, ON.

"The use of collaborative tagging in public library catalogues." American Library Association. 2006. New Orleans, LA.

“The state of education in records management.” Presented at the Annual Meeting for the Association of Records Managers Administrators, Halifax Chapter, 2000.

“Catalogue structure of business-to-consumer e-commerce web sites.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Information Science, Laval, QB, 2001.

“Copyright and intellectual property.” Presented to the Dalhousie Faculty Association, 2001.

“De-mystifying the MARC record.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Nova Scotia Library Association, North Sydney, NS, 2001.

“Metadata standards for business-to-consumer e-commerce product catalogues.” Presented at the 23rd McMaster World Congress, Hamilton, ON, 2002.

“Word association testing and thesaurus construction: defining inter-term relationships.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Information Science, Toronto, ON, 2002.

“AACR2: too many changes?” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Atlantic Provinces Library Association, St. John’s, NF, 2003.

“The use of word association testing in the construction of information retrieval thesauri.”
Presented at the joint conference of the Canadian Library Association/American Library Association, Toronto, ON, 2003.

“The Nova Scotia Digital Collections Initiative”. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, Philadelphia, PA,2003.

“Cataloguing electronic resources: AACR2 v. Dublin Core.” Presented at the School of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, 2003.

“The application of word association testing to the construction of information-retrieval thesauri: the results from a pilot study.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Atlantic Provinces Library Association, Moncton, NB,2004

“Cataloguing electronic resources.” Presented at the School of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, 2004.

Thesis Students Supervised

Andrew Estabrooks, “Machine learning with the application of text categorization.” Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University.

Kathryn Harvey, “Archival metadata for administration and resource discovery:
recommendations for the Dalhousie University Archives.” School of Information Management, Dalhousie University.

Reading Courses Supervised

Marc Bragdon, “Cataloguing of electronic texts at the Dalhousie University Electronic Text Centre.”

Rebecca Laroque, “The development and development of the Dublin Core”

Jaclyn Carter,”Censorship and revolution: past or future?”

Charles Maina, “Valuing information in an information age: the price model and the emerging information divide among individuals, societies, and nations.”

Joanne Hodder, “Application of the Dublin Core Metadata Standards.”