A typical week on the MA in Library & Information Studies is described by current student Helen Doyle in this month’s CILIP Update including classes in Personal Computing and Information Technology, Cataloguing & Classification, Collection Management & Preservation and optional module Historical Bibliography.

Katie Birkwood (MA LIS 2008) and Emma Cragg have co-authored an article in the Guardian careers section:

Emma Cragg and Katie Birkwood. ‘Beyond books: what it takes to be a 21st century librarian.’ Guardian Careers, 31 January 2011.

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This month’s Library & Information Update includes a feature article by MA LIS graduates, Chris Cooper and Anne Coles:

‘One year on: the legal information profession in the recession.’ Library & Information Update, April 2010: 40-41.

This article follows up Chris’s essay “In the 2009 Recession the Value of Legal Information and Legal Information Professionals will Increase rather than Decrease”, which won the BIALL Dissertation Award 2009.

CILIP members can access Update online. It is available in hardcopy in UCL Science Library.

(A version of this item was originally posted to the UCL DIS News & Events page by D.J. Clarke)

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Peter Williams has recently completed a study with The Committee on Publication Ethics, examining how and why journals retract articles. By exploring editors’ experiences of the retraction process and the nature of retraction statements COPE hopes to develop guidelines for authors. The study was featured in a recent THE article on the ‘Publish or perish’ factor in withdrawal of science papers. article

Pete was awarded an Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Research Studentship for 2008-2009.

(This item was originally posted to the UCL DIS News & Events page by D.J. Clarke)

Image: Pete’s departmental webpage

A new report commissioned from the Department’s CIBER research group by CILIP in London has been co-authored by Pete Williams, and is available for download:

Peter Williams and David Nicholas. Exploring the low representation of Black and Minority Ethnic staff
in the library and information science profession: case study of London: a study by CIBER, UCL commissioned by CILIP in London. [pdf]. UCL, 2009.

Pete was awarded an Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Research Studentship for 2008-2009.

(A version of this item was originally posted to the UCL DIS News & Events page by D.J. Clarke)

Image: Pete’s departmental webpage