ILM student Hartmut Schwamm wins postgraduate prize for his evaluation of marketing orientation in central European libraries

Hartmut Schwamm, a student on the Information and Library Management programme 2007-8, has been awarded the 2009 Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) postgraduate prize for his dissertation ‘An evaluation of marketing orientation in European national libraries.’ This innovative work was supervised by Dr. Derek Stephens. The Department are delighted with Hartmut’s award which completes a hat-trick for the Department – this is the third time in a row that a student from the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University have won this award; Hartmut’s success follows that of Jo Bryant and Catherine Parkinson. LIRG is a special interest group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professions that promotes the value of information research and links research with practice.

Behavioral research into attitudes towards open access repositories

DIS and LISU have been awarded a 194,000 Euro grant from the PEER Group (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) to consider the perceptions, motivations and behaviours of authors and users towards journal publishing and repository deposit. The research will be longitudinal in nature and will run until July 2011

Second Life in teaching and learning

The final departmental Research Seminar of 2008/09 will take place on 24th June, when James Dearnley and research students will talk about The use of Second Life in teaching and learning.

Times Good University Guide ranks the Department the best place to study librarianship and information management

The Department has topped the league tables in the recently released Times Good University Guide (2010) as the best place to study librarianship and information management. Loughborough was also ranked first in Building and Sports Science  ranking it behind only Oxford and Cambridge in terms of the number of top placings.

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New research into stakeholder satisfaction

The Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy (ISLP)  and the Department of Information Science (Anne Morris and Claire Creaser) have been awarded a contract to undertake satisfaction surveys over the next 5 years for the Amateur Swimming Association.

UKAIS Award for DIS PhD student

Rachael Lindsay won the PhD student prize at the UKAIS doctoral consortium in Oxford at the weekend, after presenting on her work with Leicestershire Constabulary.    Professor Ray Paul’s evaluation of her session and response to questions was that she was without doubt the best PhD student at the conference . She was put through a very gruelling questioning, which ’she handled admirably’.   Congratulations and well deserved, Rachael! 

Placement experience provides timely project

During her placement year, Chloe Wilson (a final year student on the IMBS programme) was involved in a project at Schroders Investment which has won a “RealIT” award and also featured in a Computer Weekly article.  The latter describes the major IT overhaul which has helped global investment firm Schroders cope with the market volatility surrounding the credit crunch.

So you want to study… information science

Dr Adrienne Muir, senior lecturer and postgraduate (taught) admissions tutor, was interviewed for a recent Guardian article on Masters courses in library and information science.  The article covered the content of LIS courses, the benefits of taking a taught postgraduate course, employment prospects, and funding opportunities.  Students from the University of Sheffield and the University of Aberystwyth also offered advice and their experiences to people wanting to enter the profession.

…..today’s information professional is also likely to be immersed in the virtual world of search engines, tags and all manner of web-based tools, working in a variety of settings. Competition to get into this exciting and expanding field is tough and a master’s can help you get a professional post.

Research reveals economic case for open access publishing

A new research project commissioned by JISC is published today: Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models: Exploring the costs and benefits.  One of the key findings is that sharing research information via a more open access publishing model would bring millions of pounds worth of savings to the higher education sector as well as benefiting UK plc.

Professor John Houghton from the Centre of Strategic Economic Studies at Melbourne’s Victoria University and Professor Charles Oppenheim at Loughborough University were asked to lead research that would throw light on the economic and social implications of new models for scholarly publishing.   The contributors from Loughborough included Charles Oppenheim, Anne Morris, Claire Creaser, Helen Greenwood, Mark Summers and Adrian Gourlay.

Research seminar: social network analysis

The Departmental Research Seminars 2008/2009 programme kicks off  again this week with Louise Cooke  discussing Social network analysis on January 28th 2009.