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Library and Archive Studies: Books

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The University of Manchester Library is home to a significant collection of books for Library and Archive Studies.

E-book Spotlight

Front cover of Archives and Records: Privacy, Personality Rights, and Access

Archives and Records: Privacy, Personality Rights, and Access

This open access book addresses the protection of privacy and personality rights in public records, records management, historical sources, and archives; and historical and current access to them in a broad international comparative perspective. Considering the question "can archiving pose a security risk to the protection of sensitive data and human rights?", it analyses data security and presents several significant cases of the misuse of sensitive personal data, such as census data or medical records. It examines archival inflation and the minimisation and reduction of data in public records and archives, including data anonymisation and pseudonymisation, and the risks of deanonymisation and reidentification of persons. The book looks at post-mortem privacy protection, the relationship of the right to know and the right to be forgotten and introduces a specific model of four categories of the right to be forgotten. In its conclusion, the book presents a set of recommendations for archives and records management. Mikulas Ctvrtnik, Ph.D. visiting assistant professor at Charles University in Prague, and assistant professor at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem. Author of several monographs, including Geschichte der Geschichtswissenschaft: Der tschechische Historiker Zdenek Kalista und die Tradition der deutschen Geistesgeschichte published in Germany; his latest book discusses intellectual history in the context of European historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries (Provided by the Publisher).

Locating and borrowing books

You can use Library Search to search for both print and eBooks as well as a range of other resources including articles, journals, and databases.

Guide to printed collections

The Library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme (Dewey for short) to arrange books and other resources on the shelves so you can locate them easily.

The vast majority of books relating to Library and Archive Studies and related subjects can be found in the Main Library. 

 

Subject Area Classmark(s) Location
Libraries and information sciences 020 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 1
Relationships of libraries and archives 021 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 1
Operations of libraries and archives 025 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 1
Libraries and archives devoted to specific subjects 026 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 1
General libraries and archives 027 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 1
Museology 069 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 1
Culture and institutions  306 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2
Printing, publishing, copyright 655 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3
The arts 700 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Philosophy of fine and decorative arts 701 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Organizations and management 706 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Education, research and related topics 707 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Galleries, museums and private collections 708 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
The arts - history, geographic treatment, biography 709 Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 4
Geography of and travel in ancient world 913 (specifically 913.04 – Cultural Heritage) Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3

 

More information: Locating books on shelves

For help with finding your way around the Main Library, please use our new Interactive Map.

Course reading lists

You can access your course reading lists in Blackboard: 

Access your Reading Lists

Reading Lists

E-book collections

The Library provides access to numerous e-book collections that host many titles relating to Library and Archive Studies and related subjects. Follow this link to browse different collections you can explore to find e-books relating to your studies. 

E-book collections

E-book collections

Order a Book

If the Library doesn't already hold a copy of the book you need, fill in the Order a Book form and we will get it for you.

University staff should use the Order a Book (Staff) form.

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Theses and dissertations

Theses can be a valuable source of information for your research and are very useful points of reference for when you come to write your own thesis.

For detailed information on how to access theses from the University of Manchester, and from other universities in the UK and internationally, please visit our Theses Library Guide

 

Theses

 

 

Doctoral/Research Theses

  • Electronic versions of many open-access University of Manchester research theses, submitted from the 2010 session onwards, are available on Research Explorer, the University of Manchester’s research database.

 

Theses from other UK/International Institutions

  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global (PQDT Global)

    A searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. It also offers full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress, PQDT Global offers comprehensive historic and ongoing coverage for North American works and significant and growing international coverage from a multiyear program of expanding partnerships with international universities and national associations.

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