Category Archives: CityLIS Writes

*** This category collects essays and reports written by CityLIS students. All the essays are reproduced with permission, and copyright remains with the author.

The essays are published here to encourage our current students to engage with written communication throughout their careers, and also as an education resource for other students, whether in library & information science, or a related area.

No supervisor comments or marks on the essays are shown. Whilst each of the essays published on the CityLIS Blog was awarded 60% or above, the published articles have been chosen by the course team as being not only well written, but also of wider interest to the LIS community and related disciplines. Constructive comments from classmates and the wider LIS community positively encouraged. :) ***

Tackling Subject Headings

Posted on 25/03/2020 by Joseph Dunne-Howrie

***CityLIS alumna Catherine Jenkins critically evaluates the impact of subject headings with reference to the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) controlled vocabulary. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission as part of our CityLIS Writes initiative.*** Tackling Subject Headings

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Good Neighbours: The Warburg Library Classification Scheme in its Context

Posted on 09/03/2020 by Joseph Dunne-Howrie

***CityLIS alumna Anna Gialdini compares the classification scheme at the Warburg Institute with other Knowledge Classification Schemes to adumbrate how they affect people’s perception of the world.It is reproduced here with the author’s permission as part of our CityLIS Writes … Continue reading →

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Information Resource Guide: Ancient Greek Myths

Posted on 26/06/2019 by Joseph Dunne-Howrie

***This guide was written by CityLIS student James Calvert in April 2019. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission as part of our CityLIS Writes initiative.*** The guide contains a collection of resources Greek myths and ancient Greek culture. … Continue reading →

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Authorship in the Age of the Infosphere

Posted on 18/06/2019 by Joseph Dunne-Howrie

***This essay was written by CityLIS student Anna Gialdini in April 2019. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission as part of our CityLIS Writes initiative.*** The infosphere – and one of its predominant media, the internet – have … Continue reading →

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The Developments in Scholarly Communication

Posted on 14/06/2019 by Joseph Dunne-Howrie

***This analysis was written by CityLIS student Nicolas Dunn in April 2019. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission as part of our CityLIS Writes initiative.*** In this essay, an assessment will be made on the implications of changing … Continue reading →

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