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El Departamento de Estudios de la Información es un departamento de la Facultad de Artes y Humanidades de la UCL . [1] [2]

La Escuela de Bibliotecología de la Universidad de Londres se creó en 1919 como una escuela del University College London . [3] La Escuela fue la primera escuela de biblioteconomía que fue a tiempo completo. [4] La escuela se cerró en 1939 y se abrió de nuevo en 1945. Más tarde cambió su nombre a Escuela de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Estudios de Información [3] y luego a Departamento de Estudios de Información . [5] El centenario del Departamento de Estudios de la Información se celebró en el curso académico 2019/2020.

La escuela otorgó anteriormente un Diploma en Bibliotecología. A partir de 1970, este Diploma se conoció como Diplomado en Bibliotecología y Estudios de la Información. A partir de 1947, la Escuela también otorgó un Diploma en Administración de Archivos. Desde 1966, la Escuela también otorgó títulos de Maestría en Artes (MA, por examen), Maestría en Filosofía (MPhil) y Doctorado en Filosofía (PhD) en Bibliotecología o Archivos (los títulos de MPhil y PhD se otorgan por una tesis o disertación). [6] Desde 1972, la Escuela también otorgó una Maestría en Ciencias (MSc) en Estudios de la Información. [3] El Departamento ofrece actualmente estudios de posgrado impartidos en Administración de Archivos y Registros de Maestría, Maestría en Humanidades Digitales, Maestría en Ciencias de la Información, Maestría en Bibliotecas y Estudios de la Información, Maestría en Publicaciones y MRes en Estudios de la Información. [7] Los programas de Maestría en Bibliotecas e Información y Maestría en Estudios de Información están acreditados por el Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), [8] y se encuentran en la etapa de candidatura de acreditación de la American Library Association (ALA) (Acreditación decisión en junio de 2022). [9] Hay becas y ayudas disponibles, como la beca [10] otorgada por la Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers .

Reputación e investigación [ editar ]

El Departamento de Estudios de la Información de la UCL es un centro de investigación en bibliotecología, ciencias de la información, gestión de archivos y registros, humanidades digitales y publicaciones. UCL ocupa actualmente el décimo lugar en el mundo, [11] y es el departamento de estudios de información más grande del Reino Unido. [12] En septiembre de 2017, UCL ocupó el quinto lugar en el mundo en el estudio de las artes y las humanidades. [13]

El Departamento ofrece actualmente estudios de posgrado impartidos en Administración de Archivos y Registros de Maestría, Maestría en Humanidades Digitales, Maestría en Ciencias de la Información, Maestría en Bibliotecas y Estudios de la Información, Diploma de Postgrado en Bibliotecas y Estudios de la Información, Maestría en Publicaciones y MRes en Estudios de la Información. [7] Los programas PG Dip / MA Library and Information Studies y MSc Information Studies están acreditados por el Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), [8] y el MA LIS se encuentra en la etapa de candidatura de acreditación de la American Library Association (ALA) (decisión de acreditación en junio de 2022). [14] La escuela es parte del consorcio iSchools de escuelas de información. [15]

Instalaciones [ editar ]

UCL is one of the main institutions in London's Knowledge Quarter, comprising the area around King's Cross, the Euston Road and Bloomsbury. The Department of Information Studies is located in the heart of UCL's Bloomsbury Campus, in Foster Court.

Libraries[edit]

The UCL library system comprises 17 libraries located across several sites within the main UCL campus and across Bloomsbury, linked together by a central networking catalogue and request system called Explore.[16][17][18] The libraries contain a total of over 2 million books.[19]

Main Library[edit]

It is now the largest Library but it origins as the Small Library in the Wilkins Building. It is located on the 1st floor of the Wilkins Building.

History[edit]

It is the earliest library opened in the Wilkins Building just over a year after the first UCL Librarian, Revd Dr Francis Augustus Cox was appointed in 1827. The first UCL Librarian, Revd Dr Francis Augustus Cox, was appointed in 1827.

The first purpose-built General Library opened in 1849 and was later renamed after the Professor of Architecture who designed it, Thomas Leverton Donaldson.

In 1907 the Library expanded to take up the whole length of the first floor of the Wilkins Building and became the Main Library, still very popular with students today and often appearing in films and television programmes.

It contains collections relating to the arts and humanities, economics, history, law and public policy.

Directors[edit]

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Each of the following persons was director of the School of Librarianship, the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, or the Department of Information Studies, during the period specified after their name:

  • Ernest A. Baker (1919-1934)[20][21]
  • John Duncan Cowley (1934-1944)[22]
  • Raymond Irwin (1944-1969)[23]
  • Prof. Arthur Brown (1969-1973)[24]
  • Brian Campbell Vickery (1973-1983)[25]
  • A.G. Watson (1984- 1990)
  • Robin C. Alston (1990-1995)[26]
  • Ia Mcllwaine (1995-2001)
  • Susan Hockey (2001-2004)[27]
  • David Nicholas (2004-2011)[28]
  • Claire Warwick (2011-2013)
  • Rob Miller (2013-2018)
  • Elizabeth Shepherd (2018- )[29]

Research Centres[edit]

The Department is structured around four research centres, which also engage in interdisciplinary and cross-domain research.[30]

  • Centre for Digital Humanities
  • ICARUS] (International Centre for Archives and Records Management Research
  • Centre for Publishing
  • KIDS (Knowledge Information and Data Science Group)

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities[edit]

The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities was founded in 2010. It offers research opportunities at postgraduate level, as well as short-courses.[31] Its research its multidisciplinary, covering the intersection of digital technologies with the humanities.[31]

ICARUS[edit]

The International Centre for Archives and Records Management Research was founded in 2005 and defines its research as the following:

Developing and contributing to an active, international, inclusive and sustainable network of critical and reflective thinking on archives and records management practice.

Facilitating the ethical and effective utilisation of archives, records, information, heritage and the work of managing them, in support of wider societal goals including social justice, social cohesion and more equitable access to information.[32]

Centre for Publishing[edit]

The Centre for Publishing offers a research-led MA in Publishing as well as the opportunity to engage with nearby publishing organisations in Central London. The Centre also engages in collaborative interdisciplinary research, in areas including information science, digital humanities, and library and archive studies.[33] There is a strong emphasis on the digital aspects of publishing.

Knowledge, Information and Data Science (KIDS) Group[edit]

KIDS is an active research group with interests and expertise that span across a number of disciplines including: knowledge representation, reasoning about actions, natural language processing, probabilistic logics, non-montonic logics, argumentation, Bayesian reasoning, statistical machine learning, data science and crowdsourcing. Their overarching research objective is to develop methodologies, algorithms and paradigms that build bridges between logic-based AI and statistical machine learning approaches, as well as finding practical applications in robust real-world applications. UCL Human Informatics (UCLHI) is an interest group within KIDS that collaborating with UCL Psychology and Brain Science explores multidisciplinary aspects of human activities with information systems.[34]

KIDS facilitates PhD research in topics related to knowledge organisation, knowledge representation or knowledge-based reasoning, as well as interaction with research communities in the wider profession, including the International Society for Knowledge Organisation, the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium, and the Bliss Classification Association.[35]

Notable students and staff[edit]

  • Library and Information Science
    • S. R. Ranganathan (b. 1892- d. 1972) - Mathematician and Librarian
    • Lynne Brindley (b. 1950) - first female Chief Executive of the British Library.
    • Richard Ovenden (b. 1964) - Bodley's Librarian, Bodleian Library, 2014–present.
    • Brian Vickery (b.1918- d.2009) - founder of the Classification Research Group, Director of SLAIS (now DIS) at UCL, 1973–1983.
    • David McKitterick (b. 1948-) - now Emeritus Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography at Trinity College, Cambridge.[36]
    • Andrew Dalby (b.1947)
    • Stephen Robertson (computer scientist) (b. 1946) - Now retired, Robertson is Professor Emeritus at City University, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCL.[37] The Stephen Robertson prize for the best dissertation in the UCL MA/MSc in Digital Humanities is named after him.[37]
    • Nicholas Belkin - Professor at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University
  • Publishing
    • Iain Stevenson (d.2017) - Professor Emeritus in Publishing at the UCL Centre for Publishing.[38]

Early history of the Department[edit]

At the time of its opening, the School of Librarianship was advertised as being "organised so as to give a systematic training on a broad basis to Students who are already Librarians or who propose to adopt Librarianship as their profession. It will also be available for others who desire to increase their knowledge in one or other of the branches of its work."

Admission was subject to "such enquiries as [the Provost] may deem necessary in each case, and after receiving reports from the appropriate College officers. The Tutor to Women Students advises the Provost as to the admission of Women Students."

In its first session, 1919–1920, the following programme of study was available to students:

A. General Subjects

(Courses in Latin, English, French, German, other Modern Languages, History, and other Arts and Science subjects.)

B. Day Courses

  1. Bibliography
  2. Cataloguing and Indexing
  3. Classification
  4. Library Organisation
  5. Public Library Law
  6. Library Routine
  7. Literary History and Book Selection
  8. Palaeography and Archives
  9. Demonstrations and Visits

C. Evening Courses

  1. Cataloguing and Indexing
  2. Literary History and Book Selection

D. Practical Instruction

E. Public Lectures.[39]

Awards[edit]

The UCL Department of Information Studies offers three prizes every year for the Library and Information Studies programme:

  • Sir John MacAlister Medal founded in 1926 in the memory of Sir John MacAlister, who founded the School of Librarianship. The medal is awarded to the most distinguished candidate in the MA in Library and Information Studies.[40] The medal was awarded to Alex Plane in 2019-2020, Chris Fripp in 2018–2019, Anne Binsfeld in 2017–2018, Eve Burman-Lacey in 2016–2017, Emma Sillett in 2015–2016, Amy McEwan in 2014–2015, Katherine Williams in 2013–2014, Natalie Kent[41] in 2012–2013, Matthew Seddon in 2011–2012, Joanna Maddocks in 2010-2011 and Vanessa Freedman in 2009–2010.
  • Cowley Prize founded in 1950 in memory of John D. Cowley, the late Director of the School of Librarianship, with the royalties received from the publication entitled The Libraries in London, being a course of lectures given at the Easter Vacation Course in Librarianship in 1948; awarded to two distinguished candidates for the MA Degree in Library and Information Studies.[42] The prizes were awarded to Sally Hamer and Ruth Long in 2019-2020, Simon Cloudesley and Rachael Seculer-Faber in 2018–2019, Catherine Chorley and Lucy Royle in 2017–2018, Lauren Dolman and Hannah Rowe in 2016–2017, Niamh Delaney and Rebecca Scott in 2015–2016, George Bray and Sarah Etheridge in 2014–2015, Sarah Charles and Oliver Henderson Smith in 2013–2014, Alice Dowhyj and Amy Icke in 2012–2013, Erika Delbecque and Victoria Wilson in 2011–2012, Sarah Fletcher and Fiona Godber in 2010–2011, and Paul Stephens and Tabitha Tuckett in 2009–2010.
  • Mary Piggott Prize in memory of Mary Piggott, who taught Cataloguing and Classification in the school from 1947-1974; awarded to the student on the MA or Postgraduate Diploma in LIS who achieves the highest total mark for Cataloguing and Classification. The prize was awarded to Jess Miller in 2019-2020, Chris Fripp in 2018–2019, Catherine Chorley, Cathy Goodin and Anna Zajda in 2017–2018, Eve Burman-Lacey in 2016–2017, Lauran Richards in 2015–2016, Emily Delahaye and Elżbieta Szubarczyk in 2014–2015, Dorothy Fouracre and Julija Paskova in 2013–2014, Ed Lacey in 2012–2013, Evelyn Jamieson in 2011–2012, Fiona Godber in 2010–2011, and Lesley Ruthven and Tabitha Tuckett in 2009–2010.

UCL LIS students have also been successful within national awards:

  • The CILIP Student Prize was awarded to UCL students, Simon Cloudesley in 2020,[43] Lucy Royle in 2019[44] and Eve Burman Lacey in 2018.[45]
  • The Sherif Student Award was awarded to UCL students Abigail Chapman in 2021, Morgan Wilkinson in 2018 and Alex Keane in 2017.[46]
  • The E.T. Bryant Memorial Prize was awarded to UCL students Amy McMullen in 2018, Julia Paskova in 2014, Amelie Roper in 2005 and Catherine Wilson in 1998.[47]
  • The BIALL Student Award was awarded to UCL students Steve Mishkin in 2016 and Chris Cooper in 2009.[48]

The Archives and Records Management programme awards the following two prizes:

  • Sir Hilary Jenkinson Prize in memory of Hilary Jenkinson, the archive theorist who influenced the University of London's decision to establish a Diploma in Archive Studies;[49] awarded annually to a student of distinction in the MA in Archives and Records Management.[42] The prize was awarded to Nigel Nugawela in 2018–2019, Camille Johnson in 2016–2017, Jenny Marsden in 2015–2016, Helen Wong in 2014–2015, Katrina Harrington in 2013–2014, Etienne Joseph in 2012–2013, Thomas Barnes in 2011–2012, Carly Donaldson-Randall and Kelda Roe in 2010-2011 and Meirian Jump in 2009–2010.
  • Churchill-Jenkinson Prize awarded to an outstanding student on the Archives and Records Management programme. The prize was awarded to Philip Milnes-Smith in 2017–2018, Sarah Singh in 2016–2017, Katherine Chorley in 2015–2016, Georgina Orgill in 2014–2015, Helen Sumping in 2013–2014, Sean Rippington in 2012–2013, Elizabeth Moody in 2011–2012, Jonathan Cable in 2010-2011 and Elizabeth Morgan in 2009–2010.

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