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Mariana S. Ou deposited Library History: Four texts and a website in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEssay presented in 2017 as fulfillment of requirements for completion of the module INM310 – Independent Study, part of the MSc Library and Information Science course at City, University of London. This essay stands as a report of a few months of an independent study conducted by the author about library history. The theme was explored both as a…[Read more]
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Mariana S. Ou deposited Publishing as Sharing: observations from Oral History practices in the Digital Humanities in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEssay presented in 2017 as fulfillment of requirements for completion of the module INM380 – Libraries and Publishing in an Information Society, part of the MSc Library and Information Science course at City, University of London. In this essay, I use the debates on Oral History in the Digital Humanities to support the presentation of some of the…[Read more]
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Mariana S. Ou deposited What is a digital library?: Possibilities from the idea of ‘digital object’ in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEssay presented in 2017 as fulfillment of requirements for completion of the module INM304 – Digital Libraries, part of the MSc Library and Information Science course at City, University of London.
Abstract: In this essay, I first take a look into some existing definitions of ‘digital library’, attempting to identify the continuities and…[Read more]
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Mariana S. Ou deposited ‘Anything but indifferent’: the Warburg Institute’s Library Classification System in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEssay presented in 2016 as fulfillment of requirements for completion of the module INM303 – Information Organisation, part of the MSc Library and Information Science course at City, University of London.
Abstract: This essay is a report on The Warburg Institute’s Library classification system. It is divided in three parts: first, in…[Read more]
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Mariana S. Ou deposited Do we live in an ‘information society’? in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEssay presented in 2016 as fulfillment of requirements for completion of the module INM301 – Library and Information Science Foundation, part of the MSc Library and Information Science course at City, University of London.
Abstracts: This brief essay analyses the use of the term ‘information society’ as a description of our contemporary way…[Read more]
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Mariana S. Ou deposited Google, Google Search and Libraries: Debates on Ethics in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEssay presented in 2016 as fulfillment of requirements for completion of the module INM348 – Digital Information Technologies and Application, part of the MSc Library and Information Science course at City, University of London.
Abstract: This essay presents a discussion on Google Search and its implications to Library and Information Science,…[Read more]
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Adelaide Frances Robinson deposited Digital Shoeboxes: the history and future of personal performance archiving in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoPersonal performance archiving describes a practice in which individuals who regularly attend live performances document their experiences, usually through the collection of documents such as programmes, playbills, cast sheets, ticket stubs, posters and leaflets. This is a form of documenting performance which intersects with the related field of…[Read more]
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Ludovica Price deposited Serious leisure in the digital world: exploring the information behaviour of fan communities in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis research investigates the information behaviour of cult media fan communities on the internet, using three novel methods which have not previously been applied to this domain. Firstly, a review, analysis and synthesis of the literature related to fan information behaviour, both within the disciplines of LIS and fan studies, revealed unique…[Read more]
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Ludovica Price deposited Serious leisure in the digital world: exploring the information behaviour of fan communities in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis research investigates the information behaviour of cult media fan communities on the internet, using three novel methods which have not previously been applied to this domain. Firstly, a review, analysis and synthesis of the literature related to fan information behaviour, both within the disciplines of LIS and fan studies, revealed unique…[Read more]
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Shohana Nowrin deposited Information security behaviour of smartphone users: An empirical study on the students of University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoSmartphone is the most popular electronic device in the present world. Along with the use of internet, smartphone has made revolution in the information communication technology sector. The current operating systems of smartphones allow to download mobile applications providing diverse types of features and functions. At the present days, the use…[Read more]
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Keita Bando deposited Innovating the culture of sharing in Scholarly Communications in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago学術コミュニケーションを変革する研究者向けSNS
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Lucy Montgomery deposited A journal is a club: a new economic model for scholarly publishing in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoA new economic model for the analysis of scholarly publishing – journal publishing in particular – is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In this model, publishing is communication, as the dissemination of inf…[Read more]
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Lucy Montgomery deposited A journal is a club: a new economic model for scholarly publishing in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoA new economic model for the analysis of scholarly publishing – journal publishing in particular – is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In this model, publishing is communication, as the dissemination of inf…[Read more]
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Rod Waddington deposited Using innovative and creative methods to negotiate a mine field of emotions: doing action research in a toxic organisation in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDoing action research in your own organisation is a daunting task for novice researches. When the organisation is toxic due to destructive leaders, susceptible followers and a conducive environment it is even more difficult to navigate through the research processes. As an HRD Manager in a TVET college I have personally experience and witnessed…[Read more]
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Rod Waddington deposited Using innovative and creative methods to negotiate a mine field of emotions: doing action research in a toxic organisation in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDoing action research in your own organisation is a daunting task for novice researches. When the organisation is toxic due to destructive leaders, susceptible followers and a conducive environment it is even more difficult to navigate through the research processes. As an HRD Manager in a TVET college I have personally experience and witnessed…[Read more]
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Rod Waddington deposited Using innovative and creative methods to negotiate a mine field of emotions: doing action research in a toxic organisation in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDoing action research in your own organisation is a daunting task for novice researches. When the organisation is toxic due to destructive leaders, susceptible followers and a conducive environment it is even more difficult to navigate through the research processes. As an HRD Manager in a TVET college I have personally experience and witnessed…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHow might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHow might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Building it Better Together: Columbia University Libraries, the Modern Language Association—and You? in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHow might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]
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Hannie (Ha Yea) Riley deposited LIbraries’ involvement in copyright clearance of reading list provisio in the top 20 UK Buisness School in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe copyright process on reading list provision in executive education of the UK top 20 business school is a neglected area of research. This dissertation focuses on the libraries’ involvement in copyright clearance and finds out how the libraries provide reading materials. The current trends of the copyright process are investigated to d…[Read more]
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