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Date 10/03/2022 at 13.00 - 10/03/2022 at 14.00 Where Combination Room

Join us for an event to mark International Women’s Day.

 

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The Librarian, Laura Jeffrey, will be joined by Âé¶¹ËÞÉáµçÊÓ¾çfellows and students to think about how knowledge is organised in libraries and presented to the academic community. It will ask questions such as: 'where should books on women in the Middle Ages should be located: with books on the Middle Ages or with books about women (in diverse subjects such as migration, philosophy, history, journalism, economics, anthropology, planning and development)?'

The Lee Library is beginning a long-term project to reclassify all the books we hold. We are aware that there are inherent problems in the way that the system we use to group resources together organises knowledge into antiquated silos. We are therefore seeking to identify titles/whole sections that should be recontextualised so they are more appropriately described and more easily discovered.

We are keen to get input from students, fellows and other members of the Âé¶¹ËÞÉáµçÊÓ¾çcommunity. And so, after a series of short presentations, we will open up for what will hopefully be a broad and wide-ranging discussion that will make a long-lasting impact on the way you discover what's in our collections.

Refreshments will be available from 12:30; the event begins at 13:00. You are welcome to bring your lunch in from the cafeteria and eat in the Combination Room before/during the event.

No need to book but if you have any questions or comments in advance of the event, please email Laura.

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