From 1966, the school also awarded Master of Arts (MA, by examination), Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in Librarianship or Archives (the MPhil and PhD degrees are awarded for a thesis or dissertation).
[15] UCL is one of the main institutions in London's Knowledge Quarter, comprising the area around King's Cross, the Euston Road and Bloomsbury.
The Department of Information Studies is located in the heart of UCL's Bloomsbury Campus, in Foster Court.
It is the earliest library opened in the Wilkins Building just over a year after the first UCL Librarian, Revd Dr Francis Augustus Cox was appointed in 1827.
The first purpose-built General Library opened in 1849 and was later renamed after the Professor of Architecture who designed it, Thomas Leverton Donaldson.
[citation needed] It contains collections relating to the arts and humanities, economics, history, law and public policy.
Each of the following persons was director of the School of Librarianship, the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, or the Department of Information Studies, during the period specified after their name: The Department is structured around four research centres, which also engage in interdisciplinary and cross-domain research.
The International Centre for Archives and Records Management Research was founded in 2005 and defines its research as the following:Developing and contributing to an active, international, inclusive and sustainable network of critical and reflective thinking on archives and records management practice.
The Centre also engages in collaborative interdisciplinary research, in areas including information science, digital humanities, and library and archive studies.
It represents a space for academic researchers who are active in the field of information literacy research in the UK, to discuss and challenge ideas, and to engage in critical reflection on theory, practice and praxis oriented research, including the following goals: KIDS is an active research group with interests and expertise that span across a number of disciplines including: knowledge representation, reasoning about actions, natural language processing, probabilistic logics, non-monotonic logics, argumentation, Bayesian reasoning, statistical machine learning, data science and crowdsourcing.
Admission was subject to "such enquiries as [the Provost] may deem necessary in each case, and after receiving reports from the appropriate College officers.