This essay analyses an original research project entitled ‘On designing an oral history search system’, conducted by Martin Halvey and Iain Walker and published in the Journal of Documentation in 2017.

This essay tackles a research question deserving further investigation within the history of libraries: what is the post-repeal legacy of UK government legislation Section 28 on the availability of LGBT+ collections within English, Welsh and Northern Irish public library collections in the 21st Century?

This essay examines the ways in which authorship is considered a collaborative endeavour in the infosphere and the impact this is having on the ways that information is valued. It does this by looking at: the history of collaborative authorship; the modern figure of the author; contemporary collaborative authorship, and; by theorising on issues of…[Read more]

This essay critically evaluates the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Fifth Edition (DSM-5) as an example of a taxonomical information organisation tool for psychiatry. We explore the history of the DSM; the contexts in which it is used; previous versions of the DSM; a description of the tool, its structure and contents and…[Read more]

This essay asks how the processes and concepts of collection development and collection management in 2020 was unrecognisable from those used in the late 1990s, with a focus on prison libraries in England and Wales. Governmental, international and local authority guidelines and policy frameworks are analysed, as these are the most reliable and…[Read more]

This essay examines the most popular conspiracy theories circulated on Twitter and YouTube about the 2019-20 global pandemic COVID-19 (coronavirus), in the English language, for the one-week time frame 5th May 2020 – 11th May 2020, then examine news coverage originating from UK-based outlets related to those conspiracy theories for the two month p…[Read more]

This essay tackles the ethical issues raised by our increasing dependence on e-governance technologies now ubiquitous in UK Smart Cities. There is a focus on how lack of access to these technologies can compound the exclusion and marginalisation of vulnerable groups, and what the role of the public library can be in mitigating these issues by…[Read more]

This essay examines the provision of digital library services by public libraries in the United Kingdom during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, specifically for the time frame 30th March 2020 to 30th April 2020, and how the library helped to address the digital divide for digital immigrants over the age of 70. It will assess how the closure of library…[Read more]