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Tag Archives: Student Perspectives
Visiting the Bibliothekartag/Bibliothekskongress
Student Perspectives is our series of guest posts written by current CityLIS students. This post is written by Lauren Cummings, who recently visited the Bibliothekartag in Leipzig, Germany. Lauren attended the conference with support from the John Campbell Trust. A … Continue reading
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An evaluation of Gorichanaz, T. (2018) ‘A first-person theory of documentation’
***This essay was written by CityLIS student Alexander Bell in January 2019. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission as part of our CityLIS Writes initiative.*** Mirror, mirror on the wall: introduction Ever enamoured by our own appearance, our ancestors created mirrors as … Continue reading
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Follow the Data
Student Perspectives is our series of guest posts written by current CityLIS students. In this post Tim Darach gives a brief history of the origins of computing and identifies some of the key people involved in it’s inception. The original … Continue reading
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Waves of Light – Colour as Information
Student Perspectives is our series of guest posts written by current CityLIS students. This post is written by Alexander Bell, and first appeared on his blog on September 16th 2018. Alexander considers how colour can be read as information and the … Continue reading
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