Profiles of PhD Students and Alumni

Jennine Knight

Proposal Title: The necessity for academic libraries to become strategic business partners: The case of the University of the West Indies

Tommy Vinh Bui

Proposal Title: Artist Residencies in Library Spaces: Examining Mechanisms of Impact and Gauging Effectiveness

Krista McCracken

Proposal Title: Indigenous Control of Information and Indigenous Community Identity Formation

Rebecca Bryant Penrose

Proposal Title: Libraries and Big Data on Campus: Connecting Library Programs and Services to Student Success Initiatives in Higher Education

Stephen Abrams (2023)

Dissertation Title: A Communicological Framework for Evaluating Digital Preservation Efficacy 

Walter Butler (2022)

Dissertation Title: Changing in the Open: OER Textbooks, Online Communities, and the Management of Academic Libraries

Lettie Conrad (2022)

Dissertation Title: Managing Academic Information: A Grounded Theory Model of the Student-Researcher Information Experience

Pat Sandercock (2022)

Dissertation Title: Understanding the Information Choices of Technical College Students

Richard Okumoto (2021)

Dissertation Title: Digital Storytelling in Higher Education Improves Student Learning Objectives Retention

Cherry-Ann Smart (2021)

Dissertation Title: Towards Transformative Engagement: The International and Foreign Student Stakeholders in the Academic Library: A View from the Subaltern

Salvador Barragan (2020)

Dissertation Title: Appraisal and Retention of Information in the Private Sector: A Case Study

Karen Kaufmann (2019)

Dissertation Title: Socio-cognitive Relevance of Information Literacy: The Impact on Student Success

Nilo Sarraf (2019)

Dissertation Title: Mapping the Neurophysiological and Affective Dimensions of the Information Search Process Model

Hongbo Zou (2019)

Dissertation Title: Understanding the Role of Social Media in Enhancing Participatory Services in Public Libraries

Shelly Buchanan (2018)

Dissertation Title: The Impact of Student-Driven, Independent Inquiry on Academic Motivation

Africa Hands (2018)

Dissertation Title: Doctoral Student Motivation: An Exploratory Study of Motivating Factors for Earning the PhD

Kim Morrison (2018)

Dissertation Title: Counter-story as Curriculum: Autoethnography, Critical Race Theory, and Informed Assets in the Information Literacy Classroom

Laura Anderson (2016)

Dissertation Title: Information Sharing in Virtual Collaboration: A Software Engineering Perspective

Melissa Fraser-Arnott (2016)

Dissertation Title: Personalizing Success: The Professional Identity Experiences of LIS Graduates in Non-Library Roles

Clarence Maybee (2015)

Dissertation Title: Informed Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom: The Role of Information Experiences in Shaping Outcomes 

Maria Otero-Boisvert (2015)

Dissertation Title: Funding the Academic Library: An Ethnography

Mary‑Jo Romaniuk (2014)

Dissertation Title: Developing Emerging Leaders in the Library Profession: Program Content, Self-efficacy and Leadership

Tina Inzerilla (2013)

Dissertation Title: Community College Faculty’s Teaching Social Networks and Their Implications for Librarians

Virginia Tucker (2013)

Dissertation Title: Acquiring Search Expertise: Learning Experiences and Threshold Concepts

Mary Ann Harlan (2012) 

Dissertation Title: Information Pathways: The Information Practices and Experiences of Teen Content Creators

Cheryl Stenström (2012) 

Dissertation Title: Factors Influencing Funding Decisions by Elected Politicians at the State/Provincial Level: A Case Study of Public Libraries in Canada

Diana Wakimoto (2012)

Dissertation Title: The History of Queer Community Archives in California Since 1950