This page offers a directory of completed FIMS graduate projects. While some are accessible electronically via their linked titles on this page, many more are available in hard copy in the FIMS Graduate Library.
These projects cover:
- MLIS Individual Study (9410)
- MLIS Guided Research (9411, 9412)
- MLIS Major Research (9413-9416)
- MIT Independent Study (444E)
- Journalism Independent Study
Please ask at the Service Desk if you need assistance locating a completed project. Projects from 2022 onward are available for download from Scholarship@Western – FIMS.
Browse projects by year:
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2013
| Title of Project |
Student |
Advisor |
Date |
| Knowledge workers of municipal council: A case study |
Anastasia Bush |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2013 December |
| A new (early modern) logic for creating user-centric, dynamically interactive digital learning resources in libraries |
Emma Wilson |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2013 April |
2011
2010
2009
| Title of Project |
Student |
Advisor |
Date |
| Library as place: a review of themes |
Lisa Egan |
|
2009 Winter |
| I, reader: A blog series and a book outline |
John Miedema |
Lynne McKechnie/ Catherine Ross |
2009 December |
| Usefulness of related functions in Web of Science and Scopus |
Dorothy Char |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2009 August |
| Library services for struggling and reluctant young readers: grades 1-6 |
Erin Giroux |
Lynne McKechnie |
2009 Summer |
| Leisure in LIS and other disciplines: A thematically arranged annotated bibliography |
Angela Pollak |
Lynne McKechnie |
2009 July |
| Looking at listening: Spoken narrative in space and time |
James Ripley |
Grant Campbell |
2009 April |
2008
| Title of Project |
Student |
Advisor |
Date |
| Graphic novel: an introduction to the format |
Emily Smith |
Lynne McKechnie |
2008 November |
| A different way to think about the “problem patron”: using a labeling theory framework to approach “problem” behaviours in the library |
Shelley Ferrell |
Catherine Ross |
2008 November |
| Sustainability: adding dimensions to a static discourse |
Tara Hadler |
Carole Farber/Sandra Keightly |
2008 June |
| Image not available: fair dealing, thin ice, and teaching Canadian art history |
James Ripley |
Grant Campbell |
2008 April |
| Information behaviour and self efficacy: Finding employment retraining information and resources |
Lisa Gayhart |
Susan Hayter |
2008 April |
2007
| Title of Project |
Student |
Advisor |
Date |
| For public interest or profit?: a comparison of news coverage between public and private Canadian television |
Kristina Jovanovski |
David Spencer |
2007 April |
| Controlled trials of CAM not found in PubMed: Comparing Cochrane CENTRAL, EMBASE, and other databases and analyzing therapy types |
Elise Cogo |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2007 Fall |
| Pillars of the community: The Own Sound, St. Marys and Riverdale (Toronto) Carnegie libraries and their changes over a century of service |
Matthew Griffis |
Pam McKenzie |
2007 August |
| Buzz, bandwagons and blind faith: library 2.0 and the future of librarianship |
Tamara Hammond |
Carole Farber |
2007 August |
| Reading the blind: Information behaviours of print-disabled seniors in London, Ontario |
Colleen Addison |
Susan Hayter |
2007 August |
| Information-seeking behaviour of graduate students |
Marni Harrington |
Jennifer Noon |
2007 April |
| Making cross-cultural connections in a pre-school multicultural storytime at a public library |
Linda Bussière |
Pam McKenzie |
2007 April |
| Should systematic reviewers search for randomized controlled trials published as letters? |
Alla Iansavitchene |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2007 April |
2006
| Title of Project |
Student |
Advisor |
Date |
| Librarians’ understanding of first-generation students’ concerns and needs |
Karina Douglas |
Anabel Quan-Haase/ Ronald E. Hansen |
2006 December |
| A country at war: an exploration of historical fiction available to young readers on Canada’s participation in conflicts since 1871 |
Alayne Dieter |
Lynne McKechnie |
2006 October |
| Children’s perspectives on minority cultures as presented in a multicultural storytime at the public library |
Linda Bussière |
Pam McKenzie |
2006 Fall |
| Standing order: The relationship between book publishers and public libraries in Canada |
Jason Hammond |
Lynne McKechnie |
2006 Summer |
| Developing an online resource centre for Librarians Without Borders |
Susanna Galbraith |
Pam McKenzie |
2006 Summer |
| Indymedia global community practices, networks, bonding and barriers |
Toban Black |
Anabel Quan-Haase |
2006 Summer |
| An examination of the usability of online consumer health information by information professionals |
Catherine Cotter |
Roma Harris |
2006 August |
| A comparison of 15 databases for controlled trials of complementary and alternative medicine |
Elise Cogo |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2006 August |
| Finding the grey literature in the health sciences |
Patricia Green |
Jennifer Noon |
2006 July |
| Alternative medicine for alternative depression: Discourses on complementary and alternative medicine on an online news group |
Tami Oliphant |
Catherine Ross |
2006 May |
| Virtual office hours: Students’ perceptions on communicating with professors via instant messaging |
Jeren Balayeva |
Anabel Quan-Haase |
2006 April |
| Inappropriate behaviours and campus safety at the University of Western Ontario: A focus group with graduate library and information science students |
Kevin Manuel |
Gloria Leckie |
2006 April |
| Online distance course design and instruction in higher education – Theory and practice |
Lin Peng |
Tim Craven |
2006 April |
| Succession planning in a special library: The Corporate IT & Management Library, the Government of the Province of British Columbia |
Denise McGeachy |
Donna Chan |
2006 April |
| Literature review regarding the treatment of subject headings pertaining to groups of people in the Library of Congress Subject Headings |
Karina Miki Douglas |
Tim Craven |
2006 April |
| Steven Soderbergh, section eight ltd., and the sellebrity auteur: commercial authorship in contemporary Hollywood |
Andrew de Waard |
Keir Keightley |
2006 April |
| Why adults enjoy reading the Harry Potter children’s series by J.K. Rowling |
Cassondra Driver |
Pam McKenzie |
2006 Winter |
| Content analysis of articles on libraries in Canadian national newspapers |
Mythili Kaneshalingham |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2006 Winter |
2005
| Title of Project |
Student |
Advisor |
Date |
| “Circuit of exchange”: A subject bibliography of black Canadian children’s and young adult fiction |
Heather McKend |
Pam McKenzie |
2005 September |
| Online U.S. legal research: A guidebook for University of Western Ontario Law School |
Annie Belanger |
Sam Trosow |
2005 Summer |
| The contribution of checking reference lists (CRL) for systematic reviews |
Orvie Coles |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2005 Summer |
| Searching and visibility of journal content: Providing electronic access to the contents of a small scholarly journal: A feasibility study for the Journal of Studies in Political Economy |
John Germundson |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2005 August |
| The road to a profession: The ambiguity of the paraprofessional/professional dynamic |
Ruth Hamlin-Douglas |
Pam McKenzie |
2005 August |
| Purls of wisdom: HIB in a public library knitting group |
Elena Prigoda |
Pam McKenzie |
2005 August |
| Digital media instruction at the reference desk: Meeting the needs of millennials |
Sophia Apostol |
Pam McKenzie |
2005 August |
| Regaining professional ground: Mapping the terrain of information management |
Sarah Pollard |
Jennifer Noon |
2005 April |
| Communities of practice: Innovation through collaboration |
Sean McCaffrey |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2005 April |
| Communicating the educative role of music librarians: An exploration of indicators on university websites |
Nancy Anne Brydges |
Pam McKenzie |
2005 April |
2004
| Title of Project |
Student |
Advisor |
Date |
| Archival outreach study project |
Elizabeth Simmons |
Don Spanner |
2004 December |
| Communicating the educative role of music librarians |
Nancy Brydges |
Pam McKenzie |
2004 December |
| Moving towards instructional excellence: An assessment of instructional development needs of academic librarians |
Katherine MacDonald |
Donna Chan |
2004 December |
| Building a learning organization for public libraries |
Kevin Ho |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2004 August |
| Consumer health information seeking & complementary and alternative medicine: Perspectives from a multidisciplinary literature review |
Carmen Genuardi |
Pam McKenzie |
2004 April |
| Optimizing search strategies to identify randomized controlled trials in Medline |
Li Zhang |
Isola Ajiferuke/ Margaret Sampson |
2004 April |
| Gathering responses of children and adults to an indeterminate tale: A two-tiered approach |
Melanie Boyd |
Lynne McKechnie |
2004 April |
| Consumer health information seeking & gathering in health food store settings |
Carmen Genuardi |
Pam McKenzie |
2004 April |
| The indeterminate tale: Thoughts on a neglected genre (with compendium of tales) |
Melanie Boyd |
Carole Farber |
2004 April |
| Koha: An open source integrated library system solution |
Donald Moses |
Mike Nelson |
2004 March |
| The information seeking behaviour of humanist researchers |
Andy Barrett |
Lynne McKechnie |
2004 Winter |
| Rural libraries |
Trudy Joosse |
Lynne McKechnie |
2004 Winter |
2003
| Title of Project |
Student |
Advisor |
Date |
| Informing visual poetry: Information seeking behaviour of artists |
Sandra Cowan |
Carole Farber |
2003 December |
| Library use by medical biophysics undergraduates: A survey of student perceptions |
Kristin Hoffmann |
Pam McKenzie |
2003 December |
| Elements of fantasy |
Chad Dubeau |
Lynne McKechnie |
2003 December |
| Low literacy health information |
Emily Norman |
Pam McKenzie |
2003 November |
| Technology within print-culture history: An exploration of the changes in readership |
Jen Pecoskie |
Catherine Ross |
2003 August |
| Toronto Mechanics’ Institute: Lofty goals and humble achievements |
Susan Kernohan |
Pam McKenzie |
2003 July |
| Award-winning adult lesbian fiction: A survey of Canadian public libraries |
Jen Pecoskie |
Pam McKenzie |
2003 April |
2002
| Title of Project |
Student |
Advisor |
Date |
| The emergence of geographical information systems (GIS) in academic libraries |
Michele D. Shular |
Isola Ajiferuke |
2002 December |
| Proposed bibliographic instruction program for organic and inorganic chemistry graduate students |
L. E. Briggs |
Pam McKenzie |
2002 December |
| [Dissemination of consumer health information by public librarians] |
Brandi Borman |
Pam McKenzie |
2002 Fall |
| Dissemination of consumer and mental health information by public librarians in Ontario |
Brandi Borman |
Pam McKenzie |
2002 Summer |
| Generisms: what are you laughing at? – representations of gender and genderisms in contemporary film |
Steve Dam and Kate Kerr |
|
2002 May |
| Following the scent of safari: an adventure in consumerism, advertising, and the colonial simulacrum |
Katrina M. Rudmin |
|
2002 April |
| The accessible web: It’s not just about media metrix numbers, it’s about users – A pilot study of the accessibility of online Canadian newspapers |
Sarah Forgrave |
Lynne McKechnie |
2002 April |
| ‘Stan, our man’: E. Stanley Beacock, half a century of library service to the people |
Laura Reilly |
Pam McKenzie |
2002 April |
2001
| Title of Project |
Student |
Advisor |
Date |
| Burma & the Internet: communication, information and mobilization |
Alex Bowling |
Nick Dyer-Witheford |
2001 May |
| Too many “girls” in the shower: the fight for space between slasher and pornographic films |
Tara Mimnagh |
Carole Farber |
2001 April |
| Canada and the world outside: an exploratory study of foreign news coverage in three Canadian newspapers in 1990 and 2000 |
Colleen Ross |
Anatha Babbili |
2001 April |
| African children’s books: A survey of North American public library holdings |
Andrea P. Stadt |
Pam McKenzie |
2001 December |
| Ontario library history literature review (and proposal for 698: a biography of E.S. Beacock) |
Laura Reilly |
Pam McKenzie |
2001 December |
| On the verge of another “Great Day”?: re-examining folk music and the folk revival |
Shawn L. Pulver |
Keir Keightley |
2001 |
| Online on ramps: A pilot study evaluation of the accessibility of Canadian public library websites to visually and hearing challenged customers |
Sarah Forgrave |
Lynne McKechnie |
2001 April |
1990-2000
| Title of Project |
Student |
Advisor |
Date |
| C. George McCulagh and his disillusionment with the Ontario Hepburn government (1936-7) |
Ian Edward Ross |
David Spencer |
2000 April |
| Looking through different eyes: male fantasies and women’s reality in the Vietnam war |
Zena Sharman |
|
2000 April |
| Celebrity shadow |
Jared Gutstadt |
Keir Keightley |
2000 April |
| Technology in society: America’s machine |
Sara Martel |
Tim Blackmore |
2000 April |
| Cyber-Christ |
Stavros Papavasiliou |
Carole Farber |
2000 April |
| Exploring the interplay between degree of encroachment, individual perceptions and helping behaviour in cyberspace |
Sarah Forgave |
Jacquie Burkell |
2000 April |
| From culture shock to corporate prop: the evolution of gangsta culture from mind bomb to advertising chic |
Jeff Heydon |
|
2000 |
| The GSLIS rare books collection: Recommendations for dispersal |
Nancy Lorimer |
Don Wicks |
1996 Winter |
| Feasibility study regarding the Diocese of Huron Archives’ involvement in microfilming projects |
Leith Peterson |
Robert Montague/ Patricia Dewdney |
1992 December |
| Protectionism in the Canadian magazine industry: a study of Time and Maclean’s |
Johanna Kowal |
Candace Gibson |
1998 April |
| Trudeaumania: a partnership of media and politician in scripted symbiosis |
Scott Costen |
|
1997 June |
| Noam Chomsky and the manufacturing of consent |
Albert Shu |
|
1995 April |
| Canadian foreign policy in the Persian Gulf War |
Steven Heipel |
Michael Nolan |
1992 April |
