Faculty Profile

BRIAN DETLOR

Information Systems

Associate Professor/Director of PhD Program

Area of Expertise

Professor Detlor specializes and conducts research on the adoption and use of various kinds of portals (e.g., community portals, enterprise portals) and websites (e.g., library websites, government websites), as well as in the web information seeking and business information literacy instruction areas. He currently teaches courses at the undergraduate level in information systems and electronic business.

Professional Activities

Dr. Detlor has published in peer-reviewed journals and books, presented at domestic and international conferences, and garnered grant awards from national funding agencies. Dr. Detlor has over ten years work experience consulting, designing and managing information systems. Recently, Professor Detlor served as a visiting professor at the College of Commerce at DePaul University in Chicago. He currently serves as Regional Editor (North America) for the International Journal of Information Management. His co-authored textbook, Business-Driven Information Systems (1st Canadian Edition), published in 2008 by McGraw-Hill Ryerson, is currently being used nation-wide in colleges and universities as an introductory textbook on information systems.

Education
Ph.D., University of Toronto
M.I.S., Information Science, University of Toronto
B.Sc., Computer Science, University of Western Ontario

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