dissertation students

Master’s dissertations supervised at City University London

Here is a list of the LIS dissertations that I have supervised (successfully!) for #citylis at City University London. This will give those interested some ideas about dissertation titles and topics. Our full-time students submit in September (and results are confirmed at the November exam board), but as our part-timers do not submit until January the following year, I usually update this list around the end of March – next update will be for those studying with #citylis during 2012-2013 – March 2014.

2011-2012

Boryana Bojkova
History, classification and documentation: a domain analysis of dance

Jennifer Danilchuk
Historical perspective on the changing role of librarian as gatekeeper of knowledge

Brittany Dolezal-Herwig
How are terminologies produced within a social context?

Erkin Gozutok
Guidebook culture: a history of modern guidebooks and the challenges they are facing

Caroline Grambo
Domain Analysis of Genealogy

Josanne Hackshaw
An assessment of the current archiving processes relating to Carnival within Trinidad and Tobago: the use, its value, how it has evolved and what changes are necessary

Liam Herbert
An information audit of a running club

Iveta Kreinberga
Securing the future of knowledge: digital preservation in Latvia and the UK

Christine Labarbera
Marketing successes and failures within various public libraries

Amanda Lindahl
Wisconcin public libraries: the challenges, significance and future of small town libraries

Ana Cristina de Lion
Epistemology of cool: information behaviour in fashion forecast

Jennifer May
Web 2.0 vs the OPAC: how can the public library catalogue engage the twenty-first century reader

Ludovica Price
The Sims as resource: a virtual ethnography evaluating the concept of information culture in the gaming world

Jisscyinta Rivas
Classification of fashion information for designers

Eliot Sadler
Origins of Libraries

Vitalija Zogalaite
Information communication in Christianity: from oral tradition to mass media

2010-2011

Nicola Beer
Social media in UK academic libraries: a study of social media use compared with social media wants

Kate Byrnes
e-books in schools: how educators can effectively use technology to boost student achievement

Elfrida Cable
The information landscape of developmental biology: a domain analytical approach

Anna Casey
Image digitisation: an examination of four London archives and their individual approaches to the process of image collection digitisation

Christopher Crawford-Franklin
Radio in the United States: a study of the use of information resources in 1920s America

Lucy Flanders
The use of e-books in UK law firm libraries

Namutenya Hamwaalwa
Networking and the future of ministerial libraries: the case of Namibia’s ministerial libraries

Tyson Henrie
Promoting the library’s Facebook page: an analysis of academic library websites and Facebook profiles

Victoria Kuhr
Why we go: a domain analysis of travel

Ke Ma
The information seeking behaviour of animation artists in the arts and media enterprises in the digital age

Olumuyiwa Ogunleye
Building an organisational taxonomy using bibliographic tools: a case study of a further education college library

Daniel Parker
The classification of religions: a domain-analytic examination of the history and epistemology of the classification of religions within the Religious Studies discipline

Monika Pietras
Three views of the ‘musical work’: a study of conceptualisations in philosophical, bibliographical and editorial contexts within the domain of music

Stewart Spear
What social roles do minority community archives have? Examining the importance of black and LGBT minority archives

Helen Timpson
The loss of heritage: an investigation into the impact of orphan works and potential solutions

Francesca Woolley
Approaches to electronic resource management in libraries: professional practices versus academic libraries

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 19th-20th 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).