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Master’s dissertations supervised at City University London

Here is a list of all the dissertations that I have supervised (successfully!) at City University London. This will give those interested some ideas about dissertation titles and topics, and more specifically, show some of the areas for which you may wish to consider me as a supervisor. Our full-time students submit in September, but as our part-timers do not submit until January the following year I usually update the list around the end of March – after the exam board – so the complete listing for those starting their dissertations in June 2011 will be added at the end of March 2012.

2009-2010

Aquiles Alencar Brayner

Web archiving initiatives in the UK and US – a comparative analysis

Philip Bower

Professionalism and identity in librarianship/information

Oliver Bridle

Contrasting the role of bioinformatics and bioinformatics librarians in libraries in the UK and the USA

Megan Cooper

A domain analysis of botanical information using an historical analysis approach

Sarah Corns

How much subject knowledge is needed in special librarianship?

Conor Donegan

How have new ICTs affected the handling of artists’ books in art libraries?

Julia Flood

A subject gateway for Mesoamerican studies

Maureen Garvey

The future role of libraries in civil society

Lorretta Marcel

How are ‘memory organizations”, libraries, museums and archives integrating access to folklore collections: a comparative study of Greece and the British Isles

Cheryl Mulholland

From pen and paper to the internet – a study of the communication chain and information management over 30 years, as a healthcare professional

Nadezda Onuchina

Modern information management for businesses (through the world wide web)

Emma Osland

The school library: “to be or not to be?” – a literature review of CILIP’s Library and Information Manifesto 2010, to make school libraries statutory

Sophie Pattison

Investigating the occupational therapy journal literature and its usage by British occupational therapists: a bibliometric study and questionnaire survey approach

Meredith Ship

What’s on at Tower Hamlets and Westminster libraries: a study of the Idea Store service model vs the traditional public library service model

Sonja Siegenthaler

Web archiving – what should be saved?

Penelope Swan

Information literacy in primary schools

David Watson

Disposable media? An investigation into the archiving of videogames

Paraskevi Zigras

What effect has the move from tape-based storage to file-based technology had on the information life cycle in video libraries?

2008 – 2009

Ana Moreno Antoranz

Handling information for unlicensed and newly licensed drugs.

Sarina Barron

UK Politicians and Web 2.0 Technologies: a best practice proposal on the use of these technologies for the communication and exchange of information.

Stephanie Bunyan

The information needs of a medical research group, based at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

• Bunyan S and Robinson L (2010). Meeting the user needs of a clinical research team: personalizing Endnote. Paper presented at Health Libraries Group Conference July 19^th-20^th 2010, The Lowry,  Salford Quays, Manchester, UK.

Tim Coupe

Clinical Knowledge Management in the new NHS – a crisis of control?

Clare Davies

Public library services for looked-after children in England and Wales.

Beatrice Gilpin (Shared the R T Bottle Prize)

The disabled child and the library: a case study in Sierra Leone.

Helen Mason (Shared the R T Bottle Prize)

The information behaviour of emerging artists.

• Mason H  and Robinson L (2010). The information-related behaviour of emerging artists and designers: inspiration and guidance for new practitioners. Journal of Documentation (in press).

Philip Segall

How can libraries successfully design effective spaces for face-to-face support and advice services?

Joanna Tidswell

A domain analysis of the fine art information-communication chain.

Robert Williams

The use of Web 2.0 in academic libraries.

Benjamin Wynne

Innovation in UK university libraries: the case of library web services.

2007 – 2008

Joanna Ashe

The impact of the National Library for Health’s new Search 2.0 on the staff and users of an NHS hospital library.

Shem Baldeosingh

The second coming of the Web: Do public libraries have to adapt?

Susan Charman

Is the school library effective: does the school library impact on pupil’s learning and development? A survey of the opinions of students, the users of the school library.

Niamh Doran

RFID in public libraries.

William Higgs

The Books on Prescription Scheme: a qualitative evaluation and assessment of its implementation and use in Hertfordshire public libraries.

Joanne Johnstone

Society’s perception of information communication technologies.

Meghan Jones

Social bookmarking and online subcultures.

Michael Maguire (Shared the Catherine Hamilton Prize)

Philosophical concepts and their relationship and influence on Information Science and Knowledge Management.

• Robinson L and Maguire M (2010). The rhizome and the tree; changing metaphors for information organisation. Journal of Documentation (in press).

Ruth Nott

Open access through self-archiving

Clare O’Connor

Can Libraries reach excluded communities and How? An examination of Islington Libraries Community project ” New Horizons”.

Tim Reeves

The United Kingdom Research Reserve (UKRR) project and its effects on research libraries.

Hannah West

Investigation into setting up an intranet-based information resource for an out-of hours GP service.

2006 – 2007

Louisa Bentley

Information literacy at Imperial College London.

Margarita Garcia

Liaison between librarians and lectures regarding information literacy: a case study of some academic libraries.

Owen Grey

Informal co-operation between libraries, their staff and other organisations.

Rebecca Howard

Marketing of specialist libraries.

Tamar Moselle

Prison service librarians: Changing roles … changing information needs?

Stephen Penton

A domain analysis of the music discipline: an examination of history and epistemology of the discipline, and its journal production and use.

Stephanie Pluess

Clinical librarianship from three perspectives.

Regitze Glahn Ren

Data sharing in R&D: a pharmaceutical data warehouse model.

Vibeke Walton

The future of the book in the digital world: a study of awareness of and attitudes to the e-book.

2005 – 2006

Janet Chow

Meeting Diverse User Groups’ Library Needs: the case of a mental health library.

Melissa Harden

Information needs of paediatricians for the practice of evidence-based child health.

Caroline Goetzee

The issues, promises and functionality of library management systems in school libraries: an assessment and usability focused evaluation.

Katrina Malone

Transforming the personal into the public. Information issues raised by the acquisition and digitisation of personal papers: a case study focusing on the Francis Crick Papers at the Wellcome Library.

Ella Mitchell

The People’s Network – boom or bust?

Elizabeth Pinel

Palliative medicine: its knowledge base and impact.

2004 – 2005

David Allen

A Comparative Information Needs Analysis of Health Workers in the Field of HIV/AIDS in London and Philadelphia.

Helen Bainbridge

Evidence-based practice in Primary Care: a study of UK general practitioners’ attitudes, awareness and use of evidence-based medicine.

Chucksi Ibe

How well do GP trade magazines meet the needs of GP’s? Content analysis of GP trade magazines.

Ioannis Papageorgiou

Toxicology Information Resources.

Salman Shahid

The role of health related information web resources on health care practice in the U.K and Sub-continent(Pakistan- India).