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Tag Archives: History
Data and Booth’s London Poverty Maps
The Student Perspectives category collects posts written by current CityLIS students. Cat O’Carroll looks at processes of large data collecting, prior to the digital era, specifically to the work of Charles Booth and his descriptive maps of London Poverty in … Continue reading
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Tagged charles booth, CityLIS, data analysis, History, poverty maps, Student Perspectives
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CityLIS Virtual Dissertation Collections. 2. History
Uodated to include dissertations submitted up to January 2019. This is the second in an occasional series of posts in which we celebrate and publicise the excellent work done by CityLIS students in their dissertation projects. Each post will focus … Continue reading
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Tagged dissertations, History, Information History, Library History, Masters
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CityLIS Writes: Gregorian chant and the story of musical documentation by David Baker
***This essay was written by CityLIS student David Baker in December 2016. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission as part of our CityLIS Writes initiative.*** Gregorian chant is the name given to a large collection of monodic (i.e. … Continue reading
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Tagged CityLIS, documents, gregorian chant, History, Information History, music, student-essays, thestoryofdocuments
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CityLIS Writes: A History of the Photograph and Photographic Technology
*** This essay was written by CityLIS student Sharon Seals in December 2016. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission as part of our CityLIS Writes initiative. You can follow Sharon on Twitter as @sjseals. *** Abstract This article … Continue reading
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Tagged CityLIS, CityLIS Writes, document, documentation, documents, History, image, photograph, photographs, photography, preservation, Student Perspectives, students, technology
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