Congratulations to Danielle Cossarini who has completed her MLIS thesis

Danielle Cossarini has successfully defended her MLIS thesis “Marine environmental grey literature: A case study of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment” at a public oral defence, which was attended by her examination committee and members of the SIM and Dalhousie communities. Special thanks are extended to the examination committee: Dr. Bertrum […]

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Research Team Member Wins Student Travel Award

Congratulations to Danielle Cossarini who has won the 2010 New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (NEASIS&T) Student Travel Award for her paper, “Communicating Scientific Information for Environmental Solutions: A Knowledge Management Perspective.” The jury chair stated that Danielle “wrote a truly excellent paper that deserves this recognition.” The award will support […]

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Coastal Zone Canada 2010 – Healthy Oceans – Strong Coastal Communities, Charlottetown, 25-29 July 2010

The EIUI research team was represented at the Coastal Zone Canada 2010 conference in Charlottetown by Dr. Bertrum MacDonald who participated in the workshop “Information Management for Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management” on Tuesday, 27 July. In addition, the research team presented the poster “From Science to Policy Making: Investigating the Use and Influence of Marine Environmental […]

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Workshop on CRIS, CERIF and Institutional Repositories, National Research Council Rome, 10-11 May 2010

At the European workshop on “Maximizing the Benefit of Research Information for Researchers, Research Managers, Entrepreneurs and the Public,” Bertrum MacDonald gave the presentation (co-authored with Peter Wells), “Intergovernmental Organizations and the Challenge of Document Description and Repositories.” This invitation-only workshop was organized by euroCRIS, a professional association on Current Research Information Systems, and custodian […]

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Master’s Student Receives Two Awards

Gregory Hutton received two awards for papers arising from the his Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) thesis. He received the New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Best Paper in Information Science Award for a paper entitled, “Scientific Grey Literature in a Digital Age: Measuring Its Use and […]

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