Activities

Chair of the Western Canadian Deans of Graduate Schools Working Group on Generative AI and Graduate and Postdoctoral Research and Supervision (July-Nov 2023), Report of the Western Canadian Deans of Graduate Studies Working Group on Generative AI and Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Supervision

Member of the:

• Provost  Taskforce on AI and the Learning Environment, 

• AI4Society 

• Digital Synergies

Editorial Activities

Editorial board member: Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science (CJILS)

Editorial board member: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies (KULA) 

Editorial board member: Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS) - ALISE (2018-2021)

Conference Program Committees

ASIS&T: Association for Information Science and Technology

• Program committee member, ASIS&T 2024 Annual Conference, October 25 -  29,  2024, Calgary, Alberta. 

• Program committee member, ASIS&T 2023 Annual Conference, October 27 -  31,  2023, London, UK.

• Program committee member, ASIS&T 2022 Annual Conference, October 29 - November 1, 2022, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

• Program committee member, ASIS&T 2021 Annual Conference, October 29- November 2, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

• Program committee member, ASIST 2020 Annual Conference,  October 23-28, Pittsburgh, PA.

• Program committee member, ASIST 2019 Annual Conference, October 19-23, Melbourne, Australia. 

• Program committee member, ASIS&T 2018 Annual Conference, November 10-14, 2018, Vancouver.

• Program committee member, ASIS&T 2014 Annual Conference, October 31- November 4, 2014, Seattle, WA.

• Program committee member, ASIS&T 2013 Annual Conference, November 1 -6, 2013, Montreal, Canada.

• Program committee member, American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2010) Pittsburgh, PA, October 22-27.

ACM/JCDL: ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

• Program committee member: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 26 - 30,  2023, Sante Fe,  New Mexico, US.

• Program committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 20-24, 2022,  Hybrid Conference. 

• Program committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Online, Sep 27-30, 2021.

• Program committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Wuhan, China, August 1 - 5, 2020. 

• Program committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, June 2-6, 2019.

• Program committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Fortworth, Texas, June 3 - 6, 2018.

• Program committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Toronto, Canada, June 19 - 23.

• Program committee member, ACM/Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Newark, NJ, USA, June 19 - 23.

• Program committee member, ACM/Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, June 21-25.

• Program committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Digital Libraries (JCDL), London, UK, September 8 - 12, 2014

• Program committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Indiana, July 22-26, 2013

• Program committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Washington D.C., June 10-14, 2012.

• Program committee member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Ottawa, Canada, June 13-17, 2011.

CAIS: Canadian Association for Information Science

• Program Committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference,  June 4 - 7, 2024. (virtual)

• Program Committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference,  June 6 - 9, 2023. (virtual)

• Program Committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference, June 7 - 10, 2022. (virtual)

• Program Committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference,  7-10 June, 2021. (virtual)

• Program Committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference,  An Open Virtual Conference, September 14-October 26, 2020.

• Program Committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference, Vancouver, June 3-5, 2019. 

• Co-chair, 46th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS),  Diversities on the Data Landscape: Connecting Information Science with Data Studies, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, May 30-June 1, 2018.

• Program Committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, May 31 - June 2, 2017.

• Program committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference 2016, University of Calgary, Calgary, June 1 -3.

• Program committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, June 3 -5, 2015.

• Program committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, June 6-8, 2013.

• Program committee member, Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 40th Annual Conference, Wilfred Lurier University/ University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, May 31-June 2, 2012.

• Program committee member, 39th Annual Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) Conference,June 2-4, 2011, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Advisory Board

Member of the Advisory Board for the IMLS-Funded Project titled: Developing a Framework for Measuring for Reuse of Digital Objects.(2017-2018)

TPDL: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

• Program committee member, International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2014)London, 8th-12th September 2014

ICADL: International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries

• Program committee member, International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, Nov 30 - Dec 1, 2020 [virtual conference]. 

• Program committee member, International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, 4-7 November 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia .

• Program committee member, International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, 19-22 November 2018 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO): Chapter for Canada and United States

• Program committee member, NASKO 2023:  The 9inth North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization,  15 - 16, 2023, University of Tennesse, Knoxville, US. 

• Program committee member, NASKO 2021: The 8th North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization,  July 9-11, 2021, University of Washington iSchool, Seattle, Washington, Seattle, WA, US. 

• Program committee member, NASKO 2019: Knowledge Organization: Community and Computation, June 13 -14, 2019, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,.

IADIS

• Program committee member, IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2009,  19 - 21 November 2009, Rome, Italy. 

• Program committee member, the 10th biennial International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), August 5-8, 2008, Université de Montréal Québec, Canada.

• Program committee member, IADIS International Conference Applied Computing 2008, Algarve , Portugal , 10-13 April 2008.

• Program committee member, IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing 2007, February 17-20, 2007 – Salamanca, Spain.

• Program committee member, IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing 2006, San Sebastian, Spain, 25-28 February 2006.

• Program committee member, 18th Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 19-23, 2007.

• Program committee member, 17th Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, Wyndham Hotel, Washington D.C., USA. May 21-24, 2006.

• Program committee member, 16th Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, San Diego, California, USA, May 15-18, 2005.

• Program committee member, 26th European Conference on Information Retrieval, 5th - 7th April 2004, University of Sunderland, U.K.

Previous Editorial Activities

• Section Editor for Digital libraries , Journal of Digital Information (JoDI)

• Editorial board member: Library Review, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. (2005 - 2013).

• Best JASIST Best Paper Award Jury (2014)

I was the associate editor of "Informer", the quarterly newsletter of the British Computing Society Information Retrieval Special Group (BCS/IRSG) from 2001 to 2003.

I have reviewed papers and posters for:

• IA Summit 2008: "Experiencing Information", Miami, Florida, USA, April 10-14, 2008.

• 17th Information Resources Management Association (IRM) International Conference (2006), 21-24 May, Washington D.C., USA.

• 16th Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference (2005), San Diego, California, USA.

• European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004) 5th - 7th April 2004, University of Sunderland, U.K.

• 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control October 5-8, 2003, Texas, USA.

• 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002) , Special Track on Information Access and Retrieval Systems March 10-14 Madrid, Spain.

• Journal of Information Science

• Journal of The American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T)