Breaking the silos in Canadian Library and Information Science research
The main goal of this project is to build a tool to map and explore the research output of the eight ALA-accredited information schools in Canada, with a focus of the specicific contribution of schools in shaping the Canadian LIS research landscape.

Emily McClean
Research Assistant
Emily McClean is from Charlottetown, PEI and graduated from Acadia University in 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in English with Honours. She’s excited to start her Master of Information at Dalhousie University in the fall.

Yifan Liu
Research Assistant
I am a Master of Information student at the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University. I hold a Bachelor of Business Administration w/Honors degree at St. Francis Xavier University in 2018. My undergrad research used quantitative analysis to collect and analyze user’s search behavior on browsing different websites. Currently, I am interested in the analysis of media-based user engagement and users’ psycho-linguistic phenomena such as emotion, trust, certainties, and deception, etc. Some of my research areas contain data mining, semantic analysis, and cognitive study.

Vinson Li
Librarian Educator, Nova Scotia Health
My name is Vinson Li and I am a Research Assistant at Dalhousie University. I hold a PharmD from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto and a Master of Information from Dalhousie University. My research areas of interest include: bibliometrics, health science librarianship, and combatting misinformation. I am also the Librarian Educator at Nova Scotia Health.

Marc-André Simard
PhD Student, Université de Montréal
Marc-André is a Ph.D. student in Information science at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (Université Laval) and a Master’s degree in Information Science (Université de Montréal). His research focuses on bibliometrics, open access, and science policy.

Poppy Riddle
ID PhD Program, Dalhousie University
I am a PhD student researching how searching for information may be improved through applying visualization. I am working at the intersection of Library and Information Science, bibliometrics, and human-computer interaction.