Louise Spiteri
Professor
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Email: louise.spiteri@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-2473
Fax: (902) 494-2451
Mailing Address:
Dalhousie University
Rowe Management Building, Room 4010
6100 University Avenue
PO BOX 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Research Clusters:
- Educational and information services (readers' advisory services)
- Information organisation and representation (cataloguing, classification, folksonomies, metadata, knowledge organization, social tagging, taxonomies, thesauri)
- Data, information and knowledge management (data management, information management, records management)
- Human information interaction (online catalogue retrieval systems, web-based recovery systems)
Education:
- BA (York University)
- MA (York University)
- BEd (University of Toronto)
- MLIS (University of Western Ontario)
- PhD (University of Toronto)
Overview:
I started my professional life as a high school teacher (French and History), then switched career paths to cataloguing and knowledge organization. During my time at Dalhousie, I teach in the areas of cataloguing and classification, knowledge management, records management, and the organization of information. I have served as the Director of the School of Information Management and am the academic director of the Master of Information Management programs. My research interests span the following areas: social tagging and folksonomies; linked data; the contribution of user-generated metadata to library catalogues and readers’ advisory services; knowledge organization systems; enterprise use of social media, and online zero-waste communities. My personal interests include choral singing, in which I have been involved since a young age. I am keenly interested in environmental sustainability, and embrace zero-waste living, veganism, slow food and fashion, and minimalism. I am an avid cinephile, with a particular love of films of the silent era – especially German Expressionism – and the films of the 1930s and 1940s.