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.

Browse projects by year:

2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000-1990

2021

Title of Project	Student	Advisor	Date
Community Needs Assessment Proposal for Pioneer Park Community Library	Sarah Frisse	Pamela Mackenzie	2021 April

2019

Title of Project	Student	Advisor	Date
The Sense-making Theory: Studying Seniors’ Information Behaviours in Context	Yuxiao He	Paulette Rothbauer	2019 July

2018

Title of Project	Student	Advisor	Date
“Maybe a Little Less Pre-Planned Dialogue and More Casual Convo”: How YouTuber Jenn Im Negotiates Authenticity in Sponsored Content and How Audiences Make Sense of It A Broader Examination of Information Literacy: Key to Solving the ‘Fake News’ Epidemic?	Olivia Nazarewich Nicole Delellis	Anabel Quan-Haase Victoria Rubin	2018 April 2018 April

2017

Title of Project	Student	Advisor	Date
Critical Information Literacy in Ontario K-12 and Higher Education	Devina Dandar	Lynne McKechnie	2017 May
Introverts In The Library	Erin Braam	Paulette Rothbauer	2017 August

2016

Title of Project	Student	Advisor	Date
Health 2.0: the scholarly communication practices of medical sciences and health sciences users on Academia.edu	Lydia Thorne	Anabel Quan-Haase	2016 Summer
Inciting curiosity and embedding information literacy to promote scientific literacy	Siu Hong Yu	Marni Harrington/Paulette Rothbauer	2016 August
The opportunities and challenges of implementing the directive on open government in the Canadian federal government’s neoliberal landscape	Danielle Ridge	Ajit Pyati	2016 August
Altmetrics and researcher social media use	Lauren Byl	Isola Ajiferuke	2016 Winter
Villains, heroes, and parents: An examination of gender stereotypes and representation of female characters in Canadian award-winning children’s books	Emma Kristensen	Paulette Rothbauer/ Lynne McKechnie	2016 Winter
Assessing how academic libraries support visual artists	Meg Gregory	Paulette Rothbauer	2016 Winter
Research data management in Canada	Meg Miller	Paulette Rothbauer	2016 Winter

2015

Title of Project	Student	Advisor	Date
The professional identity formation of librarians on Twitter: professional development, networking, and chats, oh my!	Kevin Tanner	Paulette Rothbauer	2015 August

2014

Title of Project	Student	Advisor	Date
Does the co-citation map predict disciplinary clusters in neuroplasticity theory?	Michael Gunn	Liwen Vaughan	2014 August
Young adult literature, censorship and sex: The impact of Judy Blume’s Forever	Laura Trabucco	Paulette Rothbauer	2014 August
Boys and reading	Megan Cook	Paulette Rothbauer	2014 August
When disaster strikes: Opportunities for community and institutional renewal at Elliott Lake Public Library	Adam Stewart	Catherine Johnson	2014 Winter

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

Title of Project	Student	Advisor	Date
Information literacy in education: towards a unified framework	Keith Willoughby	Paulette Rothbauer	2011 December
A matter of degrees: Improving access to geospatial information in libraries through geographic searching	Sarah Simpkin	Victoria Rubin	2011 August
Getting integrated: A “subversive activity” at McMaster University’s Health Sciences Library	Elizabeth Yates	Jennifer Noon	2011 August
Directed readings: Human libraries and related topics in library and information science	Laura Kely Paprocki	Heather Hill	2011 April

2010

Title of Project	Student	Advisor	Date
Spoken for: The representation of the Canadian cultural divide in English and French subject headings	Nadine Desrochers	Gloria Leckie	2010 December
Suturing the past, presenting the present, aspiring to the future	Rachel Melis	Bernd Frohmann	2010 December
Virtual patrons, catalysts, and virtual libraries	Ricardo A. Garza Wicker	Bernd Frohmann	2010 December
Cataloguing and classification of cartographic materials	Carol A. Robinson	Gloria Leckie/ Cheryl Woods	2010 November
Millennials project final results	Heather Campbell	Catherine Ross	2010 August
How do kinky people know what they know? : The information behaviour of bdsm practitioners	Tomasz Mrozewski	Pam McKenzie	2010 Winter

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