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		<title>Fieldwork</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 12:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post may well be incredibly vague, but I&#8217;d like to write it anyway for a few reasons &#8211; hopefully something I write might be of use to other people doing research in the same kind of area as me, people might have helpful suggestions, and I feel a bit of pressure (probably all from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurensmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10645575&#038;post=1158&#038;subd=laurensmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging Censorship in Scottish Libraries</title>
		<link>http://laurensmith.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/challenging-censorship-in-scottish-libraries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filtering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of expression]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[public libraries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a brief post to plug an event being run by my supervisor David McMenemy at the end of April. Although its focus is on Scottish libraries, the talks will be of interest and relevance to a UK-wide audience and we&#8217;re hoping that there&#8217;ll be some good discussions. Challenging Censorship in Scottish Libraries Towards a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurensmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10645575&#038;post=1149&#038;subd=laurensmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Year In</title>
		<link>http://laurensmith.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/one-year-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PhD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical information literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libraries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A very overdue update on what I&#8217;ve been up to! I&#8217;ve reached the one year mark in the PhD process and although there&#8217;s a very long way to go with a lot of hard work ahead, apparently I&#8217;m on track! My research topic&#8217;s altered slightly and become more specific, from the role of public libraries [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurensmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10645575&#038;post=1102&#038;subd=laurensmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Library Politics and Agenda-Setting</title>
		<link>http://laurensmith.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/library-politics-and-agenda-setting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to alarm anyone&#8230;but there&#8217;s an elephant in the room. It&#8217;s a very political elephant, which is a touchy subject in libraryland, especially in the UK. So I&#8217;m mentioning the elephant. I&#8217;m going to state, that I have&#8230;and I know it might come as a surprise&#8230;some views about libraries. I believe that librarians [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurensmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10645575&#038;post=1087&#038;subd=laurensmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Access and Public Libraries</title>
		<link>http://laurensmith.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/internet-access-and-public-libraries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libraries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion on Twitter about Barking Library (run by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham) introducing annual fees for internet access: It&#8217;s not gone down very well. The main arguments are that charging for internet access prevents those on low incomes (the people who need it the most) from accessing the service, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurensmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10645575&#038;post=1076&#038;subd=laurensmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LIS DREaM Workshop 3: Edinburgh</title>
		<link>http://laurensmith.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/lis-dream-workshop-edinburgh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PhD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libraries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lis_dream4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[methodologies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended the last of three workshops in the LIS DREaM series, in Edinburgh (I&#8217;ve also reported on workshops one and two). The sessions were all informative, and some were of particular interest as potential research methods for my PhD. Repertory Grids I found the session on repertory grids particularly useful. The repertory [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurensmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10645575&#038;post=1069&#038;subd=laurensmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SHARP Conference, Dublin</title>
		<link>http://laurensmith.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/sharp-conference-dublin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PhD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advocacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be speaking at the SHARP Conference in Dublin at the end of June, with Professor Claire Squires and my supervisor David McMenemy. In fact, we&#8217;re lucky enough (?) to be the very first session on the very first day of the conference. The programme is available here. Our bit is about this: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurensmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10645575&#038;post=1064&#038;subd=laurensmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>iLab</title>
		<link>http://laurensmith.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/1055/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PhD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical theory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[political theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not posted in a while so I thought I&#8217;d share the presentation I gave yesterday to some members of my department here at Strathclyde now that I&#8217;m a couple of weeks away from the three month mark. It&#8217;s an introduction to my PhD topic (which has taken a bit of a different direction to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurensmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10645575&#038;post=1055&#038;subd=laurensmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AHRC Justice Symposium</title>
		<link>http://laurensmith.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/ahrc-justice-symposium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PhD]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be submitting a position paper to the AHRC Justice Symposium that&#8217;s being held at the University of Stirling on Saturday 28th April. I think it&#8217;s a really good opportunity for Computer and Information Science researchers to make contact and share ideas with researchers in  other disciplines, as well as being good practice [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurensmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10645575&#038;post=1053&#038;subd=laurensmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended Listening</title>
		<link>http://laurensmith.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/recommended-listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a bit of a plug for Leeds Playlist, which I&#8217;m really enjoying taking part in &#8211; my first playlist (on the assigned theme of &#8216;colour&#8217;) went up this afternoon and I&#8217;ve been getting my ears around the other ones up there. It&#8217;s serving as a great introduction to things I&#8217;ve not listened to before and a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurensmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10645575&#038;post=1047&#038;subd=laurensmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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