Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
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Research Interests

Community Informatics and Information Seeking
Web Log Analysis
Informetrics
Government Information
Social Shaping of Technology

Courses and Workshops Taught by Dr. Lambert

60002 Organization of Information

60003 Information Technology for Library Professionals

60604 Research Methods for Libraries and Information Centres

Dr. Lambert has been a SLIS faculty member since August, 2008

Education

Ph.D. in Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario, 2008.
Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS), University of Western Ontario, 2002.
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) History and minor in Political Science, King’s College, University of Western Ontario, 1992

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario.
Lecturer, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, King’s University College, University of Western Ontario.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Western Ontario.
Part-time Reference Assistant.  Cardinal Carter Library, King’s University College, University of Western Ontario. 
Part-time Reference Library Assistant/Archivist.  Huron University College Library, University of Western Ontario.
Original Cataloguer.  Mills Memorial Library, McMaster University.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Lambert, F. (Accepted).  Online community information: The queries of three communities in southwestern Ontario. Information Processing & Management.

Lambert, F. (2005).  Assessing the authoritativeness of Canadian and American government health documents:  A comparative analysis using informetric methodologies.  Government Information Quarterly.  22(2), 277-296.

Lambert, F (2004).  Applying informetric methods to empirically assess the authoritativeness of Health Canada electronic documents.  Government Information Quarterly.  21(3), 305-318.

PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Lambert, F. (2009).  Can communities be empowered still with a ‘top-down’ approach to ICT conceptualization, design, and implementation?  The case of mycommunityinfo.ca.  Prato Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference 2009: Empowering communities: learning from community informatics practice at Monash University Prato Centre, Italy.  November 4-6, 2009. 

Lambert, F.  (2006).  The mycommunityinfo.ca approach to online networked community information provision.  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science held with the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities of Canada at York University Toronto, Ontario, June 1 - 3, 2006.  Full paper available at http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2006/lambert_2006.pdf (August 21, 2006).

PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS AND POSTERS

Lambert, F.  (2008).  The social shaping of an online community information provider.  Presented at the 4th annual SIG Social Informatics Research Symposium at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2008 Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 25, 2008.  

Lambert, F.  (2007).  Rewriting the "rules" of online networked community information services:  A case study of the mycommunityinfo.ca model.  Poster presentation at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) annual conference’s Doctoral Poster Session, Seattle, WA, January 15-18, 2007.

Lambert, F. (2004).  Assessing the authoritativeness of Canadian and American government health documents:  A comparative analysis using informetric methodologies.  Presented at Connections 2004 Great Lakes Conference, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, May 15-16, 2004.  Conference abstract published in Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 28(3), 114.