No. 446 - February 3, 2020

  • Coming Events:

    - "Justice in a Time of Law: with Dean Strang of Making a Murderer"
    - Western University #1Lib1Ref 2020
    - "Declaration of Rights: On Teaching, Racism, and Anti-Racism"
    - Ivan Coyote at Western University
    - FIMSWrites
    - Alexandra Kimball, PhD, Journalist and Author
    - "Case Logics: Making Cities, Buildings, Equipment, & Gadgets that Give Form to Knowledge"

  • Important Dates:

    - Friday, February 14, 2020 - Senate (A&HB, 1:30PM)
    - Monday, February 17 - Friday, February 21, 2020 - Reading Week/MLIS Reading Week
    - Monday, February 17, 2020 - Family Day holiday (FIMS offices closed, no classes)

  • News & Announcements:

    - We Speak survey for faculty and staff now available
    - Listening sessions announced for Anti-Racism Working Group
    - Professor Pam McKenzie launches research survey
    - Represent FIMS in Western's 3-Minute Thesis competition
    - SOGS Presidential Election opens February 4

  • Awards & Accomplishments:

    - Melanie Sucha

  • Publications & Presentations:

    - Jacquie Burkell
    - Karen Nicholson
    - Anabel Quan-Haase

  • In the Media:

    - Eric Bews
    - Cleo Harper
    - Erica McKenzie
    - Kelcey Wright Johnson

  • Additional Activities of Note:

    - Sharon Sliwinski

  • News from Western Libraries

  • Next Issue:


Coming Events


"Justice in a Time of Law: with Dean Strang of Making a Murderer"
Monday, February 3, 2020
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Josephine Spencer Niblett Law Bldg, Rm 38
We hear more about the ‘rule of law’ today, in law schools and elsewhere, than we do about justice. But law without justice is only rule, after all. Dean Strang will explore the divergence of law and justice in school and in practice, and consider how law students and lawyers can seek the presence of justice without the absence of law. Dean Strang is a criminal defence attorney who became internationally-known after the case of his client, Steven Avery, was made into the hit Netflix documentary series "Making a Murderer". Visit the Facebook Event Page.

Western University #1Lib1Ref 2020
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
D.B. Weldon Library, Instruction Room (ground floor)
1Lib1Ref is a campaign that seeks to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles by adding missing citations. This is an event where you can learn about Wiki editing, become a Wiki Editor yourself and help us eliminate the backlog of "citation needed" notices on the Wikipedia platform (continue reading).

"Declaration of Rights: On Teaching, Racism, and Anti-Racism"
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
FNB 4070
Presented by Warren Steele as part of the FIMS Seminar Series.
Abstract: This talk is about what I’ve learned teaching undergraduates about racism. My goal is to synthesize a decade of experience and communicate a teaching philosophy openly socialist in nature. One meant to develop and equip new comrades with the knowledge needed to defeat racism. Hence, it’s about the relationship between teaching and politics, theory and practice, race and class, and starts from the premise that teaching is an inherently political act (continue reading).

Ivan Coyote at Western University
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
University College, Conron Hall (3100)
Neither, Nor: How to Circumnavigate the Gender Binary in Seven Thousand Easy Steps. An evening with internationally renowned storyteller, Ivan Coyote. Join the award-winning author, artist and educator as they grapple with the complex and intensely personal topics of gender identity, family, class, and queer liberation, always with a generous heart, and a quick wit. Ivan's stories manage to handle both the hilarious and the historical with reverence and compassion, and remind us all of our own fallible and imperfect humanity while at the same time inspiring us to change the world.

FIMSWrites
Thursday, February 6, 2020 (every Thursday)
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
FNB 4110
Do you expect to have paper, story, article, report, thesis, or book deadlines this term? Does having other people writing around you help keep you on-task? Then come and join FIMSWrites, an informal initiative to provide some solidarity in the sometimes-solitary writing process.

Alexandra Kimball, PhD, Journalist and Author
Friday, February 7, 2020
12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
UC 3105 and 4401
Reading and discussion of her new book, The Seed (12:30-2PM, UC 3105).
A conversation about writing and careers beyond the academy (2:30-3:30PM, UC 4401).
Co-sponsored by FIMS and the Department of English. Find out more.

"Case Logics: Making Cities, Buildings, Equipment, & Gadgets that Give Form to Knowledge"
Thursday, February 13, 2020
4:00 p.m.
FNB Creative Commons (2nd floor)
Presented by Shannon Mattern, Professor of Anthropology, The New School. About this event: In this talk I’ll explore how and what we know — through databanks and disciplinary knowledges, classification systems and privacy protocols — are manifested in the material world, at a variety of scales and through myriad forms of design.



Important Dates


- Friday, February 14, 2020 - Senate (A&HB, 1:30PM)
- Monday, February 17 - Friday, February 21, 2020 - Reading Week/MLIS Reading Week
- Monday, February 17, 2020 - Family Day holiday (FIMS offices closed, no classes)



News & Announcements


We Speak survey for faculty and staff now available
The We Speak 2020 survey for Western faculty and staff is now open. Check your email for the link the survey (each person receives a unique link, so don't forward or share them). If you haven't received a link, check your spam folder.

Listening sessions announced for Anti-Racism Working Group
The campus community will have an opportunity to offer input into the university’s anti-racism efforts as part of a series of listening sessions scheduled for next month. Led by the President’s Anti-Racism Working Group, four listening sessions are scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 5 from 3-5 p.m.; Tuesday, Feb. 11 from 1-3 p.m.; Tuesday, Feb. 11 4-6 p.m.; and Wednesday, Feb. 19 from 5-7 p.m. all in the atrium of the International & Graduate Affairs Building (IGAB). More information can be found online.

Professor Pam McKenzie launches research survey
Are you an adult living in the province of Ontario? Do you have opinions about public libraries? Whether you are a public library user, non-user, or staff member we invite you to participate in a study ranking and categorizing a set of 30 statements about the value of public libraries. Interested? https://participant.groupwisdom.tech/project/750/sorting-rating

Represent FIMS in Western's 3-Minute Thesis competition
Doctoral students from all faculties are encouraged to give the 3MT a try, as it aims to build research communication skills. Registration for the 3MT is now open. For more information, visit the 3MT website.

SOGS Presidential Election opens February 4
Polls will open at 8 am on February 4 and will close at 8 pm on February 5, 2020.
WHERE TO VOTE: https://westernuniversitysecretariat.simplyvoting.com/
Candidate information can be found at http://sogs.ca/elections/ 



Awards & Accomplishments


Melanie Sucha, LIS sessional instructor (Information Management), was named Brandon University's new Chief Information Officer. Read the press release.




Publications & Presentations


Associate Professor Jacquie Burkell co-authored an article titled, "Voter preferences, voter manipulation, voter analytics: policy options for less surveillance and more autonomy," in Internet Policy Review: Journal on internet regulation.

Karen Nicholson, FIMS instructor, published the following article:

Nicholson, K.P. (2019). "Being in Time": New Public Management, Academic Librarians, and the Temporal Labor of Pink-Collar Public Service Work. Library Trends 68(2), 130-152. doi:10.1353/lib.2019.0034.

Professor Anabel Quan-Haase published the following book:

Quan-Haase, A. (2020). Technology and society: Social networks, power, and inequality (3rd ed.). Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.




In the Media


Three MLIS students, currently on co-op, were featured in short videos from the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority. Eric Bews, Cleo Harper, and Erica McKenzie all participated in short, promotional videos introducing themselves as Co-op students.

Kelcey Wright Johnson, MAJ'14, was featured in an article titled, "Western University journalism graduate's travels take her to Memphis, with NBA's Grizzlies," published in the London Free Press on January 21, 2020.




Additional Activities of Note


Professor Sharon Sliwinski took part in a symposium at The Corner at Whitman-Walker for "...And still our children our detained" -- a public program with leading legal, medical, and mental health experts, artists, activists, and an archivist, on immigration and the detention and separation of children at the U.S./Mexico border and the Flores Regulations.



News from Western Libraries


Western Libraries is offereing several workshops this winter that can help you to better understand the scholarly publishing process, measure your research impact, and teach you how to make the most of data and geographical information in your research.

Register today.

Upcoming Workshops:
- Ins and Outs of Publishing Fees (Feb 4)
- Before you sign: Know your academic publishing rights (Feb 6)
- Mapping the Census Using Open Source GIS (Feb 10)
- Data Management: Plans, Tools and Funding Agency Requirements (Feb 12)
- Copy That! Grappling with Copyright at Western (Feb 25)
- Continuum of Data Access (Statistics Canada) (Feb 27)
- Understanding Your Research Impact (Mar 4)
- Introduction to Systematic Reviews (Mar 9)
- Open monographs: Options for authors (Mar 10)
- Literature Searching for Systematic Reviews (Mar 11)



Next Issue


The Grad Bulletin is your source for news, announcements, and events pertaining to FIMS graduate programs. Submissions from the FIMS community are always welcome and may be sent via e-mail to bblue@uwo.ca.

The next issue of the FIMS Graduate Bulletin will be published on Tuesday, February 18 (Monday is a holiday). The deadline for submissions is noon on Friday, February 14, 2020.