Projects
LIS 530 Final Group Project: Multimemia Studies
The final project for LIS 530 was to create, as a group, a website exploring the dimensions of a topic related to information and technology. Our group chose to focus on how information moves on the internet via memes.
Library Lens Episode 01: CritLib, Gender, and Book Bans with Stephanie Jeanes
In this episode, Courtenay and special guest Stephanie Jeanes analyze the defunding of Patmos Library over the book Gender Queer through a Critical Librarianship lens.
Birds of the World Brings Massive Birding Database to Everyone…Right?
While it’s easy to imagine that birding is open to everyone given its low cost of entry and participants’ ability to do it anywhere, there are some critical considerations around who is able to access resources like Birds of the World—and who is welcome in the birding community in the first place.
About This Site
Courtenay is taking LIS 530: Technology, Information, and Society in the Fall semester of 2022 at the University of Alberta for completion of the online MLIS program. This site was created to house some of the coursework.

