Category Archives: News

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The Legal Information Profession: May 15th – 17th 2023

CityLIS are delighted to host and sponsor this three-day, specialist course for postgraduate students of library and information science. Led by colleagues from the Middle Temple Library, with expert guests, the course will be held at City, University of London … Continue reading

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LILAC 2023: Conference report from CityLIS attendee Sumedhaa Hariram

This conference report is from Sumedhaa Hariram, who is studying MSc Information Science with CityLIS during the academic year 22/23. Sumedhaa won a CityLIS sponsored place to attend LILAC 2023, 19th-21st April at the University of Cambridge, and we are … Continue reading

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Posthumous PhD Award for Dr Christopher Serbutt: Documentation and the Museum Object

This text was originally posted by David Bawden on his blog https://theoccasionalinformationist.com/2021/10/09/documentation-and-the-museum-object/ — A rather sad post for the first one after a break. CityLIS PhD student Christopher Serbutt sadly died last year, after a long period of ill-health, so … Continue reading

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Current CityLIS student Caroline Stafford wins BIALL Student Award for 2021

This great news shared by Caroline Stafford. — In June 2021, I was delighted to find out that I had been awarded the BIALL Student Award for 2021. BIALL (British and Irish Association for Law Librarians) is the UK’s leading … Continue reading

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Prizes Announcement

We are delighted to announce that the following CityLIS graduates have been awarded prizes for the outstanding quality of work they produced in the field of Library and Information Science. Bethany Ruth Sherwood has been awarded the Best Student Prize. … Continue reading

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