Dr. Spiteri
received a BA and MA in Canadian History from York University, a MLIS from the
University of Western Ontario, and a BEd (History and French) and a PhD
(Information Studies) from the University of Toronto. She joined SIM as a
faculty member in 1998. Dr. Spiteri received teaching awards from Wayne
State University and Dalhousie University, and has served as the Academic
Director of the MLIS program at SIM from May 1st 2009 to June 30th 2010. Given
her administrative experience, strong research record, and excellent teaching,
she exemplifies the characteristics we seek in leaders within the Faculty of
Management.
Dr. Spiteri
teaches in the areas of the organization of information, including records
management, cataloguing and classification, and indexing, and conducts research
in social discovery systems, classification theory, thesaurus construction, and
cataloguing. Dr. Spiteri's research has been presented at national and
international academic and professional conferences. She was amongst the
first scholars to examine the impact of social tagging systems and folksonomies
on the integration of user-based language into subject analysis systems.
Dr. Spiteri is conducting seminal and highly-cited research into the potential
for social discovery tools to transform the library catalogue into an online,
collaborative, and virtual experience of walking through the library's stacks.
Dr. Spiteri is actively involved in several academic, professional, and
not-for-profit associations, and sits on the editorial boards of a number of
peer-reviewed journals.
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