Faculty of Management

IM Subject Librarian

Lindsay McNiff is the Liaison Librarian for the Master of Information (MI) and Master of Information Management (MIM) programs.

She can be reached at lindsay.mcniff@dal.ca

As the liaison librarian, I'm available and happy to provide research help to MI and MIM students via email or phone/videoconference. If you have questions about using the library or need research assistance, please send me an email to set up an appointment and we'll find a time to chat.

Do you need help with research for an individual or group project?

2024-2025 MI Academic Support Series Schedule

Note: Some sessions are mandatory and/or require advance registration. Read details below carefully and contact Lindsay with any questions. Sessions are a mix of online and in-person delivery.

FALL 2024

APA Citation

Monday, September 9th, 2024 from 10:00am-12:00pm
In-person, Rowe 5001

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*This session is mandatory for incoming students*

Learn how to cite better in APA! In this session, you will learn the basic principles of APA, practice creating citations, and hear the answers to some tricky FAQs related to this citation format.

Finding and reading LIS literature

Monday, September 23rd, 2024 from 10:00-11:30am
Online (Microsoft Teams)

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Students come to Information Studies from many different disciplines and with different experiences with academic literature. In this session, you will learn where to look for IS literature and what genres of IS literature you can expect to find. You will also gain some tips on how to read this type of work if you have never encountered it before.   

Organizing your research with Zotero

Monday, October 7th, 2024 from 1:00-2:30pm
Online (Microsoft Teams)

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Citation management programs can help you store and organize your references, connect to full-text articles, and format your papers. They can really make your academic life easier! In this hands-on session, we will explore a popular and user-friendly citation management program called Zotero.

Easy Excel (with Julie Marcoux)

Monday, October 28th, 2024 from 10:00am-12:00pm
In-person (Rowe 5001)

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Learn to beautifully format and print tables of data. Discuss some common fixes that can be applied to messy external data. Practice cleaning and analyzing data using Excel's built in tools. This workshop covers formatting, filtering, and conditional formatting. Prerequisite: be comfortable selecting cells and groups of cells in Excel.

Writing Literature Reviews (with Dal Writing Centre)

Monday, November 4th, 2024 from 1:00-2:30pm
In-person (Rowe 5001)

Comprehensively and critically reviewing the literature allows authors to not only situate their own work but to persuade readers that the work is necessary and worthwhile. This module will focus on structuring the literature review using writing strategies to summarize and synthesize the literature while maintaining or establishing your own voice.  

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WINTER 2025

Effective Class & Conference Presentations

Friday, January 24th, 2025 from 1:00-2:30pm
In-person (Rowe 5001)

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Conferences are a great way to disseminate new insights, research, and approaches in the information profession. As a graduate student, you will probably have to present your work in class, and may also have the opportunity to present at a conference. In this workshop, students will gain tips on how to organize an awesome presentation, increase the strength of their presence, and create great slides.

Introduction to Research Data Management (with Louise Gillis and Erin MacPherson)

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 from 12:30-2:00pm
In-person (Rowe 3001)

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FAIR data, OCAP principles, funder requirements, ethics, security compliance... research data management is far from straight forward. In this ninety-minute session, we’ll provide a brief overview of research data management (RDM) as a practice and introduce 3 simple tools that make it all a little easier: the DMP Assistant, Borealis and our very own RDM Research Guide.

Academic Librarian CVs

Friday, February 28th, 2025 from 1:00-2:30pm
In-person (Rowe 3001)

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Join us for a bit of demystification around academic librarian CVs! We will talk about cover letters and CV structure, explore a job posting together, and will also touch on the academic librarian job interview and tenure process. Bring us your questions! Please note that the focus of this session will be on academic librarian work rather than other types of information work. Co-presented with Sarah Jane Dooley.