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The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on 455 hectares (1,120 acres) of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thames River bisecting the campus's eastern portion.
FIMS was born from a merger between the MA in Journalism program and the Master in Library and information Science (MLIS) program. The MLIS program was established in 1966 with the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), intended to help address a shortage of professionally trained librarians in Canada.
In 1898, the university Senate appointed James Waddell Tupper as the University of Western Ontario's first University Librarian. [1] In 1918, John Davis Barnett founded the Western Libraries collection with a donation of 40,000 books from his personal library. [ 2 ]
Bethanne Patrick's October highlights include the biographies of Bob Dylan and Samuel Adams, new fiction from John Irving and Celeste Ng and plenty more. 10 books to add to your reading list in ...
The term "revision week" is chiefly used in Commonwealth countries, where it is also known as "swotvac" or "stuvac". For post-secondary institutions in anglophone Canada, it is common to have "reading week" or "mid-term break" during the third week of February, coinciding with Family Day. While in francophone Canada, "semaine d'études ...
Catherine Sheldrick Ross FRSC (November 4, 1945 – September 11, 2021) was a professor at and later dean of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
The University of Western Ontario offers the only MLIS degree in Canada which can be completed in 12 months. [10] Students are required to complete a total of 15 courses, which can be completed in one academic year (3 terms, 12 months) if students take the full course load of five courses per term and do not participate in the co-op program. [14]
The medical school at the University of Western Ontario was founded under the guidance of Bishop Isaac Hellmuth in 1881. At the time, the university was already at capacity with other departments, so most lectures were to be taken place in a small, five-room cottage. The first lecture was given on October 1, 1882. [3]