Dr Deborah Lee MA (Oxon) MMus MA PGCert FHEA
I am a researcher and educator in library and information and until recently was also a practicing librarian. I currently hold the following role:​
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Lecturer in Library and Information Studies, UCL
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I am also hold an honorary role (Adjunct Lecturer) at the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University (Australia).
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Until recently I held the following roles:
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Joint Acting Head of the Book Library and Senior Cataloguer, Courtauld Institute of Art (until August 2019)
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Visiting Lecturer, City, University of London (until September 2020)
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I am an active member of the UK library and information communities. I am a member of the UK DDC forum and the ISKO UK Executive Committee, and co-chaired the ARLIS Cataloguing and Classification Committee (until June 2021). I was formerly a co-editor of Catalogue and Index and a CILIP onsite trainer.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Music classification
My doctoral research was a deep analysis of the classification of notated Western art music, and culminated in five models of music classification. Future research will apply these findings to music information retrieval and to explore the classification of other types and representations of music.
City, University of London
PhD in Information Science
"Modelling music: a theoretical approach to the classification of notated Western art music"
Supervised by Prof. David Bawden
Knowledge organization systems (KOSs)
What is a classification scheme and how do we analyse them? My research considers the classification scheme from new perspectives, including developing reception-infused analysis, examining our knowledge about classification schemes, and developing new ideas about how to analyse KOSs.
Music information
I am interested in music as information. What is music information? How do theories of information apply to, and interact with music?
Pedagogy of cataloguing education
How can education theories be used to help understand cataloguing education? Examples of educational tools I have used so far to analyse cataloguing teaching include "pedagogical content knowledge" (PCK) and "Bloom's taxonomy". Can studies in cataloguing education also help us to understand other areas of teaching and learning within LIS?
City, University of London
PGCert in Academic Practice (Distinction)
London Metropolitan University
MA in Information Services Management (Distinction)
Royal Holloway, University of London
MMus in Historical Musicology
University of Oxford
BA (Hons) in Music (2:1)