I am the Digital Services and Systems Librarian at MacEwan University Library. Some of my responsibilities include overseeing various digital services and information systems, as well as investigating and implementing new digital technologies that support teaching, learning, and research at MacEwan University. I am also the subject liaison librarian for the Department of Computer Science, and the Library liaison to Access and Disability Resources (ADR) and to the University's Information Technology Services unit.
Some of my research interests include the following:
- library statistics and assessment;
- information systems design and evaluation;
- digital libraries and institutional repositories; and
- geospatial technologies and geographic information systems.
Publications
Oliphant, Tami, and Michael R. Brundin. 2019. "Conflicting Values: An Exploration of the Tensions Between Learning Analytics and Academic Librarianship." Library Trends 68 (1) (Summer): 5–23. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2019.0028.
Brown, Susan, Jeffery Antoniuk, Michael Brundin, John Edward Simpson, and Mihaela Ilovan. 2015. "An Entity-Based Approach to Interoperability in the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory." [Abstract plus presentation.] In Digital Humanities Conference Abstracts 2015, Digital Humanities 2015 (DH2015), annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 29 June–3 July 2015. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. 5 pages. https://dh-abstracts.library.virginia.edu/works/2176.
Simpson, John Edward, Susan Brown, Jana Smith Elford, Shawn Murphy, Michael Brundin, and Robert Warren. 2015. "Building Better Linked Data and Ontology Visualization Tools." [Abstract plus poster presentation.] In Digital Humanities Conference Abstracts 2015, Digital Humanities 2015 (DH2015), annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 29 June–3 July 2015. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. 7 pages. https://dh-abstracts.library.virginia.edu/works/2194.
Antoniuk, Jeffery, Susan Brown, Michael Brundin, Patricia Demers, Brianna Erban, Mihaela Ilovan, Jessica MacQueen, Hamman Samuel, and John Simpson. 2014. "Appendix A. Mapping and Timeline Application: A Visualization of Canada's Libraries and Archives." [Background information on, with a link to, a mapping and timeline application of Canada's libraries and archives that we created as part of the report submission of the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on The Status and Future of Canada's Libraries and Archives.] In The Future Now: Canada's Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory, prepared and submitted by Patricia Demers (chair), Guylaine Beaudry, Pamela Bjornson, Michael Carroll, Carol Couture, Charlotte Gray, Judith Hare, Ernie Ingles, Eric Ketelaar, Gerald McMaster, and Ken Roberts, a report of the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on The Status and Future of Canada’s Libraries and Archives, pp. 207–208. (Authorial attribution for Appendix A is provided in the penultimate sentence on page 2 of the Expert Panel report.) Ottawa, Ontario: Royal Society of Canada. November 2014. https://rsc-src.ca/sites/default/files/L%26A_Report_EN_FINAL_Web.pdf#page=216.
Brown, Susan, Michael Brundin, James Chartrand, Ruth Knechtel, Andrew MacDonald, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Megan Sellmer. 2014. "The CWRC-Writer Bridge: From Coder to Writer, XML to RDF, DH to Mainstream." [Abstract plus poster presentation.] In Digital Humanities Conference Abstracts 2014, Digital Humanities 2014 (DH2014), annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 7–12 July 2014. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. 4 pages. https://dh-abstracts.library.virginia.edu/works/2094.
Antoniuk, Jeffery, Susan Brown, Michael Brundin, Patricia Demers, Brianna Erban, Mihaela Ilovan, Jessica MacQueen, Hamman Samuel, and John Simpson. 2014. "Canada's Libraries and Archives: RSC Expert Panel on The Status and Future of Canada's Libraries and Archives." [A mapping and timeline application of the libraries and archives of Canada that we created as part of the report submission of the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on The Status and Future of Canada's Libraries and Archives, with background information on, and a link to, the visualization application also included in Appendix A of the RSC Expert Panel report The Future Now: Canada's Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory.] Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory. June 2014. https://cwrc.ca/rsc-src/.
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 2012. National Statistical and Values Profile of Canadian Libraries: Report to CLA Executive Council. [Also includes two separate annexures.] Canadian Library Association. 30 November 2012. i, 33 pages. http://cla.ca/wp-content/uploads/NationalValuesProfileCanadianLibrariesReportfinal-1.pdf.
Brundin, Michael R., and Alvin M. Schrader. 2012. National Statistical Profile of Canadian Libraries. [Separate annexure to the National Statistical and Values Profile of Canadian Libraries: Report to CLA Executive Council.] Canadian Library Association. November 2012. 18 pages. http://cla.ca/wp-content/uploads/National-Statistics-Profile.pdf.
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 2012. National Values Profile of Canadian Libraries. [Separate annexure to the National Statistical and Values Profile of Canadian Libraries: Report to CLA Executive Council.] Canadian Library Association. November 2012. i, 76 pages. http://cla.ca/wp-content/uploads/CLA-Statistical-and-Values-Profile-of-Canadian-Libraries.pdf.
Campbell, D. Grant, Michael Brundin, Graham MacLean, and Catherine Baird. 2007. "Everything Old is New Again: Finding a Place for Knowledge Structures in a Satisficing World." [Paper plus presentation.] In Proceedings of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007, edited by Joseph T. Tennis, NASKO 2007, biennial symposium of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, Canada and United States chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 14–15 June 2007, vol. 1, pp. 21–30. International Society for Knowledge Organization. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106234.
Brundin, Michael R. 2007. "Using a Geographic Information System to Analyze Public Library Performance Measures." [Paper plus presentation.] In ASPRS Annual Conference 2007: Identifying Geospatial Solutions, ASPRS 2007 Annual Conference, annual conference of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Tampa, Florida, 7–11 May 2007, vol. 1, pp. 95–105. Bethesda, Maryland: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. https://www.asprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/0010.pdf.
Campbell, Sandy, Michael Brundin, Geoffrey Harder, and Juliet Nielsen. 2004. "Compassionate Pioneering as a Work Expectation." PNLA Quarterly 68 (3) (Spring): 16–17. https://pnla.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/volume-68-3-spring-2004.pdf#page=18.
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 2002. National Core Library Statistics Program: Statistical Report, 1999: Cultural and Economic Impact of Libraries on Canada. Ottawa, Ontario: National Library of Canada. viii, 157 pages. https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/r3/f2/02-e.pdf.
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 2001. "U of A SLIS Employment Survey 1999." News. Library and Information Studies Alumni Association (April): 4–6. (Also available at https://sites.ualberta.ca/~aschrade/surveys/report99.htm.)
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 2001. CASLIS National Salary Survey 2000. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Library Association; Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services. March 2001. xiii, 83 pages. (See https://bac-lac.on.worldcat.org/oclc/47038112 for the catalog record for this book in Library and Archives Canada’s Aurora library catalog.)
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 2001. National Core Library Statistics Program: 1999 Survey Database and Documentation. [SPSS database and accompanying print documentation.] Ottawa, Ontario: National Library of Canada.
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 2000. "1999 MLIS Graduate Experiences at the University of Alberta." News. Library and Information Studies Alumni Association (December): 4–5, 8.
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 2000. "National Core Library Statistics Program: The 1996 Survey." Bulletin. National Library of Canada 32 (7–8) (July/August): 7–9. http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/301/bulletin_nlc/2000/no7-8/10e.htm.
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. "Summary of Results of the 1994 and 1995 NCLSP Database Correction Project." Unpublished report for the National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, 25 April 2000. 5 pages.
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. "Briefing Package: Overview of Human Resource Development and Maintenance for Alberta Libraries." Unpublished report for the Alberta Advocacy Working Group, The Alberta Library, Edmonton, Alberta, April 2000. 4 pages.
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 2000. "1998 MLIS Graduate Experiences at the U of A." Letter of the LAA 122 (February): 16–17.
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 1999. "U of A SLIS Placement Survey, 1998." News. Library and Information Studies Alumni Association (December): 2–3. (Also available at https://sites.ualberta.ca/~aschrade/surveys/report98.htm.)
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 1999. National Core Library Statistics Program: Statistical Report, 1996: Cultural and Economic Impact on Canadian Society of Public, Academic, and Special Libraries. Ottawa, Ontario: National Library of Canada. July 1999. viii, 94 pages. https://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/r3/f2/03-e.pdf.
Schrader, Alvin M., and Michael R. Brundin. 1999. "U of A SLIS Placement Survey, 1997." News. Library and Information Studies Alumni Association (April): 6–7. (Also available at https://sites.ualberta.ca/~aschrade/surveys/report97.htm.)
Presentations
"Twenty Up: Oh, The Places the SLIS Class of 1998 Have Been and What They Can Tell You!". Invited presentation (co-presented with Sean Barr, Anne Carr-Wiggin, Debbie Feisst, and Joanne Rodger) at the School of Library and Information Studies, Education South, University of Alberta, 7 November 2018.
"Managing Metadata in Your Institutional Repository". Presentation at Netspeed 2018, the annual technology conference of The Alberta Library, Strathcona County Community Centre, Sherwood Park, Alberta, 12 October 2018.
"Twenty Up: Oh, The Places the SLIS Class of 1998 Have Been and What They Can Tell You!". Presentation (co-presented with Sean Barr, Anne Carr-Wiggin, Debbie Feisst, and Joanne Rodger) at the Alberta Library Conference 2018, the annual conference of the Library Association of Alberta and the Alberta Library Trustees Association, Jasper, Alberta, 27 April 2018.
"CWRC Launch Conference". Official launch and demonstration (with Susan Brown, Jeffery Antoniuk, and Mihaela Ilovan) of the CWRC (Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory) repository at the Digital Textualities / Canadian Contexts conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 22 September 2016.
"CWRC Beta Site Launch". Beta site launch and demonstration (with Susan Brown, Jeffery Antoniuk, and Mihaela Ilovan) of the CWRC (Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory) repository at Congress 2016, the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 29 May 2016.
"An Entity-Based Approach to Interoperability in the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory". Presentation (co-presented with Susan Brown [presenter], Jeffery Antoniuk, John Edward Simpson, and Mihaela Ilovan) at Digital Humanities 2015 (DH2015), the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 2 July 2015.
"Building Better Linked Data and Ontology Visualization Tools". Poster presentation (co-presented with John Edward Simpson, Susan Brown, Jana Smith Elford, Shawn Murphy, and Robert Warren) at Digital Humanities 2015 (DH2015), the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 1 July 2015.
"Work with CWRC". Poster presentation (co-presented with Susan Brown, Jeffery Antoniuk, Mihaela Ilovan, and John Edward Simpson) at CSDH 2015, the annual conference of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, held as part of Congress 2015, the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 3 June 2015.
"The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory: An Experiment in Infrastructure". Presentation (co-presented with Susan Brown, Jeffery Antoniuk, Mihaela Ilovan, Megan Sellmer, and Robert Warren) at CSDH 2015, the annual conference of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, held as part of Congress 2015, the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 2 June 2015.
"Simile Exhibit: A Mapping and Timeline Application". Invited presentation delivered at a meeting of the Edmonton Map Society, Claridge House, 11027 87 Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta, 26 May 2015.
"The CWRC-Writer Bridge: From Coder to Writer, XML to RDF, DH to Mainstream". Poster presentation (co-presented with Susan Brown, James Chartrand, Ruth Knechtel, Andrew MacDonald, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Megan Sellmer) at Digital Humanities 2014 (DH2014), the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 10 July 2014.
"Canada's Libraries and Archives. RSC Expert Panel on The Status and Future of Canada's Libraries and Archives". Invited presentation (co-presented with Brianna Erban, Jeffery Antoniuk, Patricia Demers, Mihaela Ilovan, and Susan Brown) on a mapping and timeline application we created (along with Jessica MacQueen, Hamman Samuel, and John Simpson) to the members of the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on The Status and Future of Canada’s Libraries and Archives. Bruce Peel Special Collections, Rutherford South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2 May 2014. (See http://cwrc.ca/rsc-src/ for the mapping and timeline application.)
"Challenges in Developing a Digital Repository of Educational Resources on CAM". Poster presentation (co-presented with Trish Longair, Rebecca Brundin-Mather, and Marja Verhoef) at the fourth annual IN-CAM Research Symposium, the annual research symposium of the Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2 November 2007.
"Everything New is Old Again: Finding a Home for Knowledge Structures in a Satisficing World". Presentation (co-presented with D. Grant Campbell [presenter], Graham MacLean, and Catherine Baird) at the first North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2007), the biennial symposium of the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, the Canada and United States chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 14 June 2007.
"Ogling Earth on the World Wide Web: Investigating the Virtual Globe Google Earth". Presentation at CAG 2007, the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, held as part of Congress 2007, the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2 June 2007.
"Using a Geographic Information System to Analyze Public Library Performance Measures: A Spatial Analysis of Selected Measures from the 2003 Ontario Public Library Statistics". Presentation at ASPRS 2007 Annual Conference, the annual conference of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Tampa, Florida, 11 May 2007.
"Make jake Work for You". Presentation on jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment, the first open source OpenURL server) at the annual conference of the Alberta Association of Library Technicians, King’s University College, Edmonton, Alberta, 3 May 2002.
"Telling the Whole Story of Canadian Library Services and Benefits: Research Challenges in Nationwide, Multi-Sector, Library Measurement". Invited presentation (co-presented with Alvin M. Schrader) for the Association of Professional Librarians of the University of Alberta, School of Library and Information Studies, Rutherford South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 23 January 2002.
Teaching and Instruction
Guest lecture for the class CMPT 104: Fluency with Information Technology (Instructor: Brian Lin). Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, 4 December 2024.
Instruction (with co-instructors on the Information Literacy Foundations team: Jane Duffy, Estelle Frank, Roxy Garstad, Nicolle Lemay, Joan Morrison, Alison Pitcher, Ron Rooth, and Lindsey Whitson) in information literacy and library research skills to students in first-year English classes in the Department of English. Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, 2022–.
"Using Fedora Commons / Islandora". A week-long course co-taught with Craig Squires at Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2018, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 11–15 June 2018.
"Google Analytics: A Brief Overview". Instruction on the use of the Google Analytics web analytics service to MacEwan University Library staff at Spring Library PD Day 2018, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, 11 May 2018.
"Using Fedora Commons / Islandora". A week-long course co-taught with Craig Squires at Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2017, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 12–16 June 2017.
"CWRCshop 2: Working in CWRC". A half-day workshop co-taught with Susan Brown, Mihaela Ilovan, and Jeffery Antoniuk at the Digital Textualities / Canadian Contexts conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 20 September 2016.
"CWRCshop 1: Intro to CWRC". A half-day workshop co-taught with Susan Brown, Mihaela Ilovan, and Jeffery Antoniuk at the Digital Textualities / Canadian Contexts conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 20 September 2016.
"Online Collaborative Scholarship: Principles and Practices (A CWRCShop)". A week-long course co-taught with Susan Brown, Karyn Huenemann, and Mihaela Ilovan at Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2016, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 13–17 June 2016.
"CWRCShop". An all-day workshop co-taught with Susan Brown, Mihaela Ilovan, and Jeffery Antoniuk at DHSI@Congress at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 2 June 2016.
"CWRCShop". A two-day workshop co-taught with Susan Brown and Mihaela Ilovan at DHSI@Congress at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 30–31 May 2015.
"Online Collaborative Scholarship: Principles and Practices (A CWRCShop)". A week-long course co-taught with Susan Brown, Karyn Huenemann, and Mihaela Ilovan at Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2014, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, 8–12 June 2014.
Instruction (with co-instructors Susan Brown, Isobel Grundy, Mihaela Ilovan, Jana Smith Elford, and Jeffery Antoniuk) on the use of the CWRC (Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory) repository, the Orlando textbase, and the Oxygen XML Editor, to graduate students in the Department of English and Film Studies. Department of English and Film Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2014–2016.
Guest lectures for the class LIS 597: Advanced Scholarship and Research in LIS (Instructor: Tami Oliphant). School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2013–.
Guest lectures for the class PHIL 366: Computers and Culture (Instructor: John Simpson). Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2013–2015.
Graduate teaching assistant for the class MIT 1500: The Matter of Technology (Instructor: John Reed). Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 2010.
Graduate teaching assistant for the class MIT 1700: FYI: Information and Its Contexts (Instructors: Catherine Johnson, Paulette Rothbauer, and Ajit Pyati). Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 2008–2009.
Guest lectures for the class LIS 210: Critical Strategies for the Information Universe (Instructor: Tami Oliphant). School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2004.
"Introduction to Petroleum Engineering Resources". Instruction and training on petroleum engineering resources to Science and Technology Library staff at Spring Training Session, Cameron Library, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 29 April 2003.
Numerous instruction sessions for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering throughout the academic year. Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2002–2003.
Several province-wide presentations and training sessions for The Alberta Library (TAL) on TAL Online (a bibliographic search application). Numerous public and academic libraries throughout Alberta, 2001–2002.
Guest lectures for the class LIS 505: Research Methods for Library and Information Studies (Instructor: Alvin Schrader). School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 1999–2002.
Guest lectures for the class LIS 597: Seminar in Advanced Research Methods for Library and Information Studies (Instructor: Alvin Schrader). School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 1999–2002.
Training of Bibliographic Services staff on the use of the bindery database application that I designed and developed to automate the bindery process at the University of Alberta Libraries. Cameron Library, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, December 1997.
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