sam dodd
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My Masters dissertation is now published on Humanities Commons
I have now published my dissertation on open-access repository Humanities Commons, alongside all my essays. I received a Distinction for this project. The abstract is below: Public libraries in the United Kingdom have faced significant closures since the introduction of austerity in 2010, with this trend predicted to continue. The current tools used to measure…
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My Masters essays are now on Open-Access Humanities Commons
This week, I uploaded eight unpublished essays I wrote for the Library Science programme I am taking at City, University of London, to my Humanities Commons profile page. You can also find them on the Academic page of this site. They span such subjects as: the lasting legacy of Section 28 on public libraries; marginalised…
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Body As Information
The last ten weeks of the DITA module have often had me considering how we experience and communicate information via the body, the memory and our senses, rather than solely in measured, quantifiable, language-bound ways. I’ve been trying to figure out how to match this back to a discipline such as Library Science in a…
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Databases: Theory into Practice – Proper Provision for Low Budget Orgs & Groups
Whenever I am considering any theory, I am usually also thinking about how it would work in practice, and this has been the case for the last four weeks of DITA. I have had a lot of experience with the design, maintenance and sometimes migration of databases and CRM’s in my professional life, so I…
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