Christine F. Smith

Education

Smith holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication (summa cum laude) and a Master of Library and Information Studies (magna cum laude).

Professional expertise

With over a decade of diverse experience across the library and information field, Smith has sat on committees, working groups and boards of directors of provincial, national, and international library associations.  Smith's current role is as supervisory librarian and part of the Library Management Team. Providing leadership in defining and developing the Library’s acquisitions processes, Smith is responsible for overseeing acquisitions operations for all library materials.

Research activities

Passionate about the study and facilitation of people’s connection to information, Smith takes an interdisciplinary approach to researching systems and structures– both technologically- and socially-constructed – that accelerate and impede the sharing of knowledge. Smith’s work has appeared in trade, professional and refereed academic publications across North America. Full CV available upon request.

Current and noteworthy research activities include:

• Principal investigator of Exploring Streaming Media and Course Reserves: A case study and Lack of Collections as Data: Making Meaning Out of the Films We Cannot See
• Editor of the forthcoming refereed monograph Platform Power and Libraries from Litwin Press
• Principal investigator and Chair of the Cataloguing Code of Ethics Review Working Group (under the CFLA CMSC

Teaching activities & supervision

Smith has supervised research assistants and practicum students in addition to teaching master's level courses in the field of library and information studies via collaborations with McGill University’s School of Information Studies and the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information at l'Université de Montréal.

Selected awards & grants

·        2024 - Best paper by a practitioner author, Canadian Association for Information Science

·        2022 - Recipient of Concordia University Library Research Grant.  Principal investigator - Lack of Collections as Data: Making Meaning Out of the Films We Cannot See

·        2015 – Inductee to Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute (NELI)