FIMS at Western University

From classroom to continent: information professionals tackle AI together
Four years of FIMS Summer School have quietly built a family of professionals stretching across Africa and Canada.
The hidden world that can make you feel seen: how cataloguing creates community
The catalogue reform work of researcher B.M. Watson is shaped by personal experience.
Western Indigenous Student Fellowship recipients champion representation in library science, archival research
Indigenous Student Fellows Olivia Couchie and Savannah Simon (also FIMS MLIS students) are working with Western Libraries to continue efforts to decolonize information.
What Gets Lost in Translation? Building a multi-lingual Homosaurus
With support from SSHRC and Western, researcher Bri Watson is transforming how LGBTQ+ knowledge is understood by expanding critical terminology infrastructure across languages and communities.