Kelti McGloin receives 2025 Dalhousie-Horrocks National Leadership Fund

October 1, 2025

Dalhousie University’s Department of Information Science today announced that Kelti McGloin, a Master of Information/Juris Doctor (MI/JD) student, is the 2025 recipient of the Dalhousie-Horrocks National Leadership Fund. The scholarship is awarded annually to an MI student who demonstrates leadership potential in information management, specifically in libraries.

Kelti McGloin Chosen as 2025 Recipient of the Dalhousie-Horrocks National Leadership Fund

We are pleased to announce that Master of Information/Juris Doctor (MI/JD) student Kelti McGloin has been selected as the twelfth recipient of the Dalhousie-Horrocks National Leadership Fund.

This Fund was established in 2007 to honour Dr. Norman Horrocks, OC, PhD, FCLIP (1927-2010) for his outstanding leadership in the field of librarianship in North America, Australia, and Europe. Over several decades Dr. Horrocks, former Director of the School of Information Management (now DIS) and Dean of the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University, pursued a distinguished career of very active involvement in professional associations in the United Kingdom, Cyprus, Australia, the United States, and Canada. His many contributions, for which he received local, national and international recognition, have advanced the field and the careers of countless individuals. The fund supports a scholarship and an associated lecture series through an endowment donated by the many former students, colleagues, friends and admirers of Norman Horrocks.

Kelti McGloin is in her final year of the combined MI/JD degree program. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Sociology with minors in Philosophy and Political Science at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2022. She was inspired to pursue a Master of Information alongside her law degree upon observing the work done by law librarians at the Schulich School of Law. Having worked as a reference intern at the Sir James Dunn Law Library for the last three years, Kelti regularly helps to resolve the legal information needs of patrons from diverse backgrounds and brings a strong service orientation to her emerging professional practice. These experiences inform her enthusiasm for access to justice and promoting legal literacy among non-lawyers. She is grateful to have had opportunities to synthesize these interests with her passion for Aboriginal law in research assistantships with Professor Naiomi Metallic and the Lnuwey Tplutaqan Wikuom.

Kelti has further leveraged her combined degree to co-author Best Practices for Writing About Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Legal Context, a style guide for legal writing at the Schulich School of Law. She is excited about opportunities to connect with legal information professionals and is an active member of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries and the American Association of Law Libraries. Kelti will be articling with the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General in 2026/27. Further into the future, she hopes to work as an academic law librarian, where she can mobilize her unique professional background to teach legal research skills to future lawyers.

This award will be presented at the Dalhousie-Horrocks National Leadership Lecture in early 2026. Stay tuned for more details!

(Via Dalhousie University, Department of Information Science)

Previous recipients:

• 2024: Carolyn Smith
• 2023: Catherine Gracey
• 2022: Maddie Hare
• 2021: Vinson Li and McKenzie Young
• 2020: Siobhan Wiggans
• 2019: Cassandra Larose
• 2018: Rachel Fry
• 2017: Rebecca (Becky) Shaw
• 2016: Domenic Rosati
• 2015: Leah Boulos
• 2014: Dominique Taylor
• 2013: Alison Froese-Stoddard