A chronicle of my activities is available in the NEWS section. 

​​WELCOME to my personal academic website. I am an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information,  University of Toronto.  As an interdisciplinary social scientist devoted to the field of Library and Information Science (LIS), I have conducted research in three related areas: 1) Information and the "higher things in life" that are pleasurable and profound; 2) Visual and creative research methodologies (and methods); and 3) the History and theory of LIS. A selection of writings within these themes and many full-text PDFs are available in RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS, or you can survey my work as a Google Scholar profile.

In 2020, I learned to make videos and launched INFIDEOS, a YouTube channel of educational videos about Information Science. Its purpose is to share the ideas of Information Science with the world. The 100+ original (and sometimes outrageous) videos at INFIDEOS may be useful to students, researchers, and practitioners of LIS. In 2022, INFIDEOS won the ALISE/Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award. Presently, I am devoted to video-making and publish new videos, monthly.  

Here's the channel trailer for INFIDEOS.

In the Master of Information program at the Faculty of Information, I mostly teach graduate students in the Library and Information Science concentration, and it is a great pleasure. On the TEACHING page you will find a list of my courses, syllabi, course evaluations, and reading guides; my teaching philosophy; and references for my writings on teaching. A separate area on ADVISING recognizes the former and current doctoral and masters students I have supervised.

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Contact

Dr. Jenna Hartel, Associate Professor
Bissell Building #613
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto 
140 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4S 3G6
email: [email protected] 
​web:  www.jennahartel.info
YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/INFIDEOS