London Metropolitan home page of Sue Batley

Job title: Senior Lecturer in Information Management

Education and Academic Qualifications:
PhD Visual Information Retrieval: Search and Browsing Strategies in Pictorial Databases. University of Aberdeen. 1989.
BA (Hons) Librarianship and Information Studies. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic. 1985.

Current teaching and administrative roles
Information retrieval systems (Internet, online, CD-ROM): organisation and structure, search strategies and search statements, evaluation
Classification, cataloguing and indexing: theory and practice
Social Research Methods
Information sources (Internet, online, CD-ROM, paper)
Academic libraries
Course Leader of the MA Information Services Management

Publications and conference papers

• S.Batley, S. Cataloguing and classification of electronic resources: Old skills in a new environment. Managing Information, June 1999.
• Batley, S. Access to Electronic Documents: Taxonomies in Information and Knowledge Management. EUSIDIC Spring Meeting, Lille, 2001.
• Wood, B. and Batley, S. Managing a Corporate Taxonomy: The Essex County Council Experience. Online Information 2002, London, 3-5 December 2002
• Batley, S. Classification in Theory and Practice, Oxford, Chandos, 2004