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Student Theses:

2011/2012

Goertzen, Melissa: Homeless Bound: A Search for Digital Literacy within the Realm of Social Media [in progress]. Advisor: Anatoliy Gruzd.

Hamilton, Lora: M.M. Bakhtin: A Dialogic Approach to Understanding Censorship (A Case Study of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago) [in progress]. Advisor: Vivian Howard.

2010/2011

Gilbert, Sarah: The Student Research Process: Technologies, Activities, Information, and People. Advisor: Elaine Toms.

Grek Martin, Jennifer: Two Roads to Middle Earth: The Relationship Between Textual and Cinematic Visualization. Advisor: Vivian Howard.

Weldon, Jennifer: Designing e-Cards for Costal Management Issues. Advisors: Elaine Toms & Peter Wells.

2009/2010

Cossarini, Danielle: Understanding the Production, Distribution, and Use of Scientific Grey Literature: A Case Study of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment. Advisor: Bertrum MacDonald.

Manyangara, Angela: Web habits of Internet Users. Advisor: Elaine Toms.

Parlette, Melanie: Personal growth, habits and understandings: Pleasure reading among first-year university students. Advisor: Vivian Howard.

2008/2009

Hutton, Greg: Developing an Inclusive Measure of Influence for Marine Environmental Grey Literature. Advisor: Bertrum MacDonald.

2007/2008

McCay-Peet, Lori: Image Use within the Work Task Model: Images as Objects and Images as Data. Advisor: Elaine Toms.

McLaughlin, Jodi Ann: Information Use by Visual Artists. Advisor: Elaine Toms.

Puxley, Katie: Google In China [in progress]. Advisor: Keith Lawson.

2006/2007

Hicks, Deborah: Perpetual Beta: A Study of the Attitudes and Opinions of Nova Scotian Academic Librarians Towards Change.  Advisor: Bertrum MacDonald

Ishimura, Yusuke: Information Literacy in Academic Libraries: Assessment of Japanese students' needs for successful assignment completion in two Halifax universities.  Advisor: Haidar Moukdad

May, Francine: Libraries as Public Space: Patterns of Use in Nova Scotia Public Libraries. Advisor: Fiona Black

Woroniak, Monique: First Nations' Reporting to the Federal Government: Challenges of Process and Accountability. Advisor: Fiona Black

2005/2006

Boxall, James: Distributed Geolibraries: Information Policy Explorations with Implications for the Gulf of Maine. Advisor: Fiona Black

Dawe, Emilie: Managing Interruptions to Information Searching in the Workplace. [2005] Advisor: Elaine Toms

2004/2005

Harvey, Kathryn
: Archival metadata for administration and resource discovery: recommendations for the Dalhousie University Archives. [2005] Advisor: Louise Spiteri

2002/2003

Helliwell, Michelle: Information Needs of Parents in the NICU. [2003]. Advisors: Fiona Black (Supervisor), Bertrum MacDonald, and Erna Snelgrove-Clarke (Nursing and Interdisciplinary Research Department, IWK Health Centre).

Deveau, Leo: The Canadian Information Highway Debate and The Experience of Public Access in Rural Communities, 1993-1999. [2003]. Advisors: Fiona Black, Bertrum MacDonald, James McNiven.

2001/2002

Talbot, Andrea: Information Behaviour of Pediatric Emergency Physicians. [2002]. Advisors: Bertrum MacDonald, Elaine Toms & Heidi Julien.

2000/2001

Michels, David: How Biblical Studies Researchers Find Their Answers: The Use of Personal Sources in Information Seeking. [2001]. Advisors: Heidi Julien, Bertrum MacDonald, Glenn Wooden.

Boon, Stuart: Metaphor, Simulation and Discourse in the Social Construction of Hypermedia. [2001]. Advisors: Heidi Julien, Haidar Moukdad, and Ronald Tetreault.

Johnson, Teresa: A Textual Analysis of Librarians' Work: Conflicts in Service and Management Practices. [2001]. Advisors: Heidi Julien, Marguerite Cassin and Frances Gregor.

1999/2000

Duggan, Lawrence ("Lou"): An Examination of the Characteristics of the Information Resources Preferred by Physicians. [2000]. Advisors: Bertrum MacDonald, Heidi Julien, and Fred Burge.

1998/1999

Crumley, Ellen T.: How Managers and Librarians Evaluate Provincial Government Department Libraries in Nova Scotia. [1998]. Advisors: Bertrum MacDonald and Norman Horrocks.