This course is a gentle introduction to the field of Natural Language Processing for students with primarily humanities backgrounds (FIMS 9732/“How Computers Talk to Us:View More
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Spring 2023 End-of-Course Digital Wall: Cautionary Tales of Disinformation
You are invited to take a look at the end-of-course Digital Wall (via MS Sway) with some fascinating cautionary tales told and visualized by graduateView More
“A Trained Librarian is a Powerful Search Engine with a Heart” Quote
A lovely example of Authority Work to disambiguate authors with the same name: Sarah McIntyre. One of them is wearing a funky hat and glasses.View More
Dr. Menczer Presents at FIMS, Western “Hacking Online Virality”
Rogers Chair in Studies in Journalism and New Information Technology (at FIMS, Western) presents “Hacking Online Virality” by Dr. Filippo Menczer, Luddy Distinguished Professor at IndianaView More
LIS9002 Class Tour to Western Archives at Weldon
On 24 March 2023, the first term MLIS students in Dr. Rubin’s LIS9002 course at FIMS are invited to participate in a special event atView More
Practical Workshop: Student Mini-Thesauri Presentations
On 15 November 2022, students in the Fall 2022 LIS9202: “Thesaurus Construction & Metadata” course (at FIMS, Western University, London Canada) participated in informal presentationsView More
London Public Library (LPL) Guest Talk at Western by Anne O’Sullivan and Mary Horman
On 9 December 2022, two local librarians, Anne O’Sullivan (Manager, Customer Services and Branch Operations) and Mary Horman (Cataloguer, Collections Services) from the London PublicView More
Zoom Guest Talk by Dr. Pierson (Germany) on Careers in Metadata
On 6 December 2022, Cameron M. Pierson, Phd, MLIS, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany, delivered an invited talk “On Professional Identities Beyond MLIS: Careers inView More
Spring 2022 End-of-Term Digital Wall
Mis- & Disinformation Case Studies: How to Curb the Infodemic? To see our interactive digital wall of infographics, click on the button or screenshot. TheView More
Digital Wall of Iconographics on Counter-Misinformation Strategies
Visit our Digital Wall of Iconographics: “Strategies for Prevention, Deterrence, or Detection of Mis-/Disinformation” In Winter 2020 academic term, graduate students in the “Misinformation andView More