Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Have anyone ever compiled a bibliography of their school year group pupils?

As a trained librarian, I'm curious if anyone has ever compiled a bibliography (list of publications) of their school year group?

In the case of an average (English) secondary school year group, there would be around 250 to at least 500 pupils whose publishing activity could be monitored.

What would nowadays constitute to be a publication?
As well as books, magazine/journal articles, reports, other media publications including CDs, music and electronic media as defined by the 2003 Legal Deposit Act, would videos on YouTube and other media hosting platforms be considered "publications"?

Then there's the issues over name changes e.g. marriage.

I think in my year group, a minority of ex-pupils would generate the most material for a bibliography. In their younger days, mentions in their papers about sporting achievements would dominate.
As they get older, if they're employed by academia, then their academic output predominates. If they became prominent members of their local community, e.g. councillors, then they get more mentions in the media.

I think such a bibliographical analysis would be best done on a sabbatical basis, and preferably in close contact with their fellow year group (not me at the moment).



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