Fourteenth News Update
RUTH RIKOWSKI
News Update No. 14 consists of a number of information news items and a focus on 2 other people that I commissioned to write books for Chandos Publishing – namely, Sue Batley and Jean Bradford. Sue and Jean also both used to review books for me, for Managing Information.
1. VICTOR VERNE RIKOWSKI HAS JUST SECURED A PERMANENT, PART-TIME POSITION, WORKING AT THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Well, the library tradition in our family continues it seems! Our middle son, Victor Rikowski, has just secured a permanent, part-time position, working for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Public Libraries. This leads on from the temporary work that he has been doing there, and should fit in well with his studies.
Victor has also written material for Information for Social Change, including:
Future of Capitalism: millionaires ruling the millions, Winter 2001,
Iss. 14
http://libr.org/isc/articles/14-Victor_Rikowski.html
Problems in Education Today, Summer 2006, Iss. 23
http://libr.org/isc/issues/ISC23/B9d%20Victor%20Rikowski.pdf
There is further information about Victor on our website – see:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=about&sub=Victor%20Rikowski
2. STANLEY AND MABEL TURNEY AND THE PEACE PLEDGE UNION: EXPERIENCES OF BEING BOUGHT UP IN A FAMILY ADVOCATING PEACE BY RUTH RIKOWSKI
I have just inserted this article on our website. It is a piece that I wrote about my parents, my family background, and my experiences of being bought up in a family advocating peace. I wrote the article in 2002 shortly after both my parents had died. In fact, it very much helped me to come to terms with my grief. I wrote it originally for the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) (http://www.ppu.org.uk/), which my father was a member of for many, many years, for the PPU Archive Collection in London, where the hard copy is now housed. I liaised with Bill Hetherington, the PPU Archivist there, in this regard.
http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=articles&sub=Turney%5ba%5ds%20and%20PPU
3. FOCUS ON SUE BATLEY
Dr. Sue Batley is a Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and Course Director of the MA in Information Services Management. Her teaching and research centre upon the organization and retrieval of information, covering information and knowledge architecture and traditional cataloguing and classification. Sue is someone that I commissioned to write the book ‘Classification in theory and practice’ for Chandos and further details about this book are given below.
Having completed a PhD on factors affecting search behaviour and retrieval of information from picture databases at the University of Aberdeen in 1989, Sue worked as a subject librarian and lecturer at the University of East London before taking up her current post in 1996.
Sue has published two books and several articles in the area of resource description and organisation. Her latest book, published by Chandos is Information architecture for information professionals (2007) http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=119.
This book examines the field of information architecture from the perspective of an information professional and is intended to explain concepts in a way that will be accessible to information professionals as well as to a wider readership. The aim is to explain information architecture partly within the context of traditional librarianship, and partly within the context of systems design. Subjects of relevance to the study of information architecture are varied and wide-ranging. Sue’s book does not claim to cover all aspects in depth, but to provide an overview of issues to the extent that basic theoretical and practical understanding is developed. Coverage includes: core concepts of indexing, classification, cataloguing and user-centred design; analysis of user needs, organisational needs, tasks and individual resources; search and retrieval facilities focusing on search engine functionality and taxonomy creation; records management, content analysis and metadata creation; principles of interface design and usability; management and maintenance of the information system and systems’ evaluation.
Sue’s previous book, also published by Chandos is entitled
RUTH RIKOWSKI
News Update No. 14 consists of a number of information news items and a focus on 2 other people that I commissioned to write books for Chandos Publishing – namely, Sue Batley and Jean Bradford. Sue and Jean also both used to review books for me, for Managing Information.
1. VICTOR VERNE RIKOWSKI HAS JUST SECURED A PERMANENT, PART-TIME POSITION, WORKING AT THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Well, the library tradition in our family continues it seems! Our middle son, Victor Rikowski, has just secured a permanent, part-time position, working for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Public Libraries. This leads on from the temporary work that he has been doing there, and should fit in well with his studies.
Victor has also written material for Information for Social Change, including:
Future of Capitalism: millionaires ruling the millions, Winter 2001,
Iss. 14
http://libr.org/isc/articles/14-Victor_Rikowski.html
Problems in Education Today, Summer 2006, Iss. 23
http://libr.org/isc/issues/ISC23/B9d%20Victor%20Rikowski.pdf
There is further information about Victor on our website – see:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=about&sub=Victor%20Rikowski
2. STANLEY AND MABEL TURNEY AND THE PEACE PLEDGE UNION: EXPERIENCES OF BEING BOUGHT UP IN A FAMILY ADVOCATING PEACE BY RUTH RIKOWSKI
I have just inserted this article on our website. It is a piece that I wrote about my parents, my family background, and my experiences of being bought up in a family advocating peace. I wrote the article in 2002 shortly after both my parents had died. In fact, it very much helped me to come to terms with my grief. I wrote it originally for the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) (http://www.ppu.org.uk/), which my father was a member of for many, many years, for the PPU Archive Collection in London, where the hard copy is now housed. I liaised with Bill Hetherington, the PPU Archivist there, in this regard.
http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=articles&sub=Turney%5ba%5ds%20and%20PPU
3. FOCUS ON SUE BATLEY
Dr. Sue Batley is a Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and Course Director of the MA in Information Services Management. Her teaching and research centre upon the organization and retrieval of information, covering information and knowledge architecture and traditional cataloguing and classification. Sue is someone that I commissioned to write the book ‘Classification in theory and practice’ for Chandos and further details about this book are given below.
Having completed a PhD on factors affecting search behaviour and retrieval of information from picture databases at the University of Aberdeen in 1989, Sue worked as a subject librarian and lecturer at the University of East London before taking up her current post in 1996.
Sue has published two books and several articles in the area of resource description and organisation. Her latest book, published by Chandos is Information architecture for information professionals (2007) http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=119.
This book examines the field of information architecture from the perspective of an information professional and is intended to explain concepts in a way that will be accessible to information professionals as well as to a wider readership. The aim is to explain information architecture partly within the context of traditional librarianship, and partly within the context of systems design. Subjects of relevance to the study of information architecture are varied and wide-ranging. Sue’s book does not claim to cover all aspects in depth, but to provide an overview of issues to the extent that basic theoretical and practical understanding is developed. Coverage includes: core concepts of indexing, classification, cataloguing and user-centred design; analysis of user needs, organisational needs, tasks and individual resources; search and retrieval facilities focusing on search engine functionality and taxonomy creation; records management, content analysis and metadata creation; principles of interface design and usability; management and maintenance of the information system and systems’ evaluation.
Sue’s previous book, also published by Chandos is entitled
Classification in theory and practice (2005)
http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=26. Classification has often been treated as a sub-set of cataloguing and indexing with relatively few basic textbooks concentrating solely on the theory and practice of classifying resources, Sue says. This book attempts to redress the balance somewhat. Sue’s aim was to demystify a complex subject, by providing a sound theoretical underpinning, together with practical advice and promotion of practical skills. The book explores theories of classification in broad terms and then focuses on the basic principles of library classification, introducing readers to technical terminology and different types of classification scheme. Individual classification schemes are also examined in depth. Each scheme is explained using frequent examples to illustrate basic features.
4. FOCUS ON JEAN BRADFORD
Jean Bradford is another person that I commissioned to write a book for Chandos. As can be seen below, she decided to turn the project into an edited collection. In this write-up by Jean, she outlines her own background, but the main focus is on the Chandos edited collection itself.
Interlending and document supply in Britain - Edited by Jean Bradford and Jenny Brine. Published by Chandos: Oxford, 2006 (ISBN (pbk) 1 84334 140 9)
http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=75
This book grew out of a Roadshow organised by FIL: Forum for Interlending and Information Delivery (FIL). http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/fil/index.html. This event was organised for newcomers to interlending and document supply (IDS) and the organisers wanted to produce a reading list for delegates. Although there were numerous relevant articles, they could not find a book explaining the IDS system in the United Kingdom (UK) today. This book aimed to fill that gap.
Jean Bradford has been an Interlending and Document Supply (IDS) librarian since 1977. She currently manages the IDS, Serials and Binding Section of the University of Bristol Library and is responsible for copyright compliance for the Library. She has worked for the University of Bristol since 1974, so her experience comes from the perspective of an academic library.
However, she wanted to make sure that any book included information of use to IDS librarians in all sectors in the United Kingdom. So, she asked fellow members of the FIL Committee for help and Jenny Brine, then IDS librarian at Lancaster University Library and Secretary of FIL, offered to help with editing a book. Jenny has now moved on to be Health and Medicine Subject Librarian at Lancaster.
Jenny and Jean then recruited other colleagues to help with writing particular sections. Contributors included librarians in public libraries, national libraries and commercial organisations. This reflects the collaborative culture among IDS librarians who can always be relied on to help each other track down information required by their readers, Jean explains. FIL helped by paying the expenses for the participants in the project to meet, to discuss progress or to visit other libraries. Jean and Jenny are very grateful for the support which FIL provided.
Feedback from readers of the book has been very positive, Jean says. As the editors hoped, library staff refer to it in their day-to-day work. Jean delivers a lecture on IDS and co-operation for the MSc Course in Information and Library Management at the University of the West of England. The book is included on the students’ reading list and this enables any who may not have had much experience of IDS to prepare for her session. It has also been used in connection with the research for an Inter-Library Loan Feasibility Study carried out for the MLA. Senior managers too have found it has helped them gain a better understanding of the work needed to provide an IDS service to users, Jean says. Copies have also been sold overseas and as Jean emphasises, this has been gratifying as another aim of the editors was to help those who were not familiar with the IDS system in the UK.
5. LIBRARIAN ACTIVIST.ORG
http://www.librarianactivist.org/index.html
This really useful website was established by Danielle Dennie, a Science
Librarian at the Université du Québec a Montréal. It provides news,
information and resources to librarians who “want to be active in political and
social issues surrounding libraries and librarianship.”
It includes information about various progressive library groups, such as
‘Librarians Against the WTO’ and ‘Urbana-Champaign Independent Media
Center Library’.
You can contact the site, send interesting news stories etc to:
info@librarianactivist.org.
6. LIS NEWS: LIBRARIAN AND INFORMATION SCIENCE NEWS
http://lisnews.org/
This collaborative weblog is a very valuable resource for library and information workers, I think.
The LIS News website was created by Blake Carver in 1999, and as it says:
“LISNews is a collaborative weblog…devoted to current events and news in the world of Library and Information Science. A dedicated team of international bloggers scour the World Wide Web to find stories they find interesting. You'll find links to news stories and Web sites, along with original writing, interviews and reviews. LISNews is updated frequently, usually 7 days a week. We are a non-commercial site, supported by our users.” LISNews is ‘open and collaborative’, and includes authors from a wide range of viewpoints. It holds no control over any work submitted for posting and takes no responsibility for work submitted. As such, I think it is a very valuable tool that library and information workers can contribute to.
The weblog includes a lot of interesting news. One of the most recent news items on the website, for example, alerts us to the fact that Michigan Libraries might face 50% cuts in 2008.
7. UPDATE ON COPY/SOUTH DOSSIER
Alan Story circulated the following message on 29th May 2007, in regard to the Copy/South Dossier. It is very good to see interest and discussion on this important document growing in this way and I hope that this will continue.
”Dear Copy/South Dossier reader:About a month ago (26 April), the Copy/South Research Group launched its"Reader Response" project. The project is designed to give readers of theC/S Dossier an opportunity to comment, positively or negatively, on thecontents of the Dossier and/or to tell of their own personal experienceswith copyright in the global South.First, we want to thank the first ten people from seven differentcountries (located on five continents) who have taken up ourinvitation...and you can read their comments under the "Reader Response"section of our website (http://www.copysouth.org/). So a dialogue has beenstarted and, among these responses, you will find some interestingperceptions of the issues at stake.Second, we would like to extend a welcome to other Dossier readers tosubmit their comments and thoughts as well. The e-mail address forresponses is: response@copysouth.org.
The C/S website gives a brief backgrounder on why we set up this projectand a few guidelines drawn up for submissions. We will be happy to postyour thoughts on our website.Best wishesAlan Story for the Copy/South Reader Response Project. http://www.copysouth.org/”
8. BOOK CHAPTERS ON TRIPS BY RUTH RIKOWSKI
News Update No. 13 included information about my various published
works on the topic of Globalisation, Information and Libraries. However, I omitted to include 2 items; that is, 2 forthcoming edited collections which I have chapters in. This information is now outlined below.
A Marxist analysis of the World Trade Organisation’s agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (2007) (forthcoming) in
Global Knowledge Cultures, edited by Cushla Kapitzke and Michael A. Peters, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers
Traditional Knowledge and TRIPS (2007) (forthcoming) in
Information for Social Change: Writings from a Radical Library Collective, edited by Shiraz Durrani, Library Juice Press, LCC: USA
9. OBTAINING HARD COPIES OF MY PUBLISHED ARTICLES ON ‘GLOBALISATION, INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES’
News Update No. 13 included information about various published articles of mine that are only available in hard copy. If anyone would like copies of any of these articles, just get in contact with me (rikowskigr@aol.com) and let me know what article(s) you would like, and I will send the relevant copies to you.
Many thanks to Sue Batley, Jean Bradford and Alan Story for providing information for items 3,4 and 7 respectively and to Steve Fesenmaier for providing information for items 5 and 6.
Best wishes,
Ruth
2nd June 2007
http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=26. Classification has often been treated as a sub-set of cataloguing and indexing with relatively few basic textbooks concentrating solely on the theory and practice of classifying resources, Sue says. This book attempts to redress the balance somewhat. Sue’s aim was to demystify a complex subject, by providing a sound theoretical underpinning, together with practical advice and promotion of practical skills. The book explores theories of classification in broad terms and then focuses on the basic principles of library classification, introducing readers to technical terminology and different types of classification scheme. Individual classification schemes are also examined in depth. Each scheme is explained using frequent examples to illustrate basic features.
4. FOCUS ON JEAN BRADFORD
Jean Bradford is another person that I commissioned to write a book for Chandos. As can be seen below, she decided to turn the project into an edited collection. In this write-up by Jean, she outlines her own background, but the main focus is on the Chandos edited collection itself.
Interlending and document supply in Britain - Edited by Jean Bradford and Jenny Brine. Published by Chandos: Oxford, 2006 (ISBN (pbk) 1 84334 140 9)
http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=75
This book grew out of a Roadshow organised by FIL: Forum for Interlending and Information Delivery (FIL). http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/fil/index.html. This event was organised for newcomers to interlending and document supply (IDS) and the organisers wanted to produce a reading list for delegates. Although there were numerous relevant articles, they could not find a book explaining the IDS system in the United Kingdom (UK) today. This book aimed to fill that gap.
Jean Bradford has been an Interlending and Document Supply (IDS) librarian since 1977. She currently manages the IDS, Serials and Binding Section of the University of Bristol Library and is responsible for copyright compliance for the Library. She has worked for the University of Bristol since 1974, so her experience comes from the perspective of an academic library.
However, she wanted to make sure that any book included information of use to IDS librarians in all sectors in the United Kingdom. So, she asked fellow members of the FIL Committee for help and Jenny Brine, then IDS librarian at Lancaster University Library and Secretary of FIL, offered to help with editing a book. Jenny has now moved on to be Health and Medicine Subject Librarian at Lancaster.
Jenny and Jean then recruited other colleagues to help with writing particular sections. Contributors included librarians in public libraries, national libraries and commercial organisations. This reflects the collaborative culture among IDS librarians who can always be relied on to help each other track down information required by their readers, Jean explains. FIL helped by paying the expenses for the participants in the project to meet, to discuss progress or to visit other libraries. Jean and Jenny are very grateful for the support which FIL provided.
Feedback from readers of the book has been very positive, Jean says. As the editors hoped, library staff refer to it in their day-to-day work. Jean delivers a lecture on IDS and co-operation for the MSc Course in Information and Library Management at the University of the West of England. The book is included on the students’ reading list and this enables any who may not have had much experience of IDS to prepare for her session. It has also been used in connection with the research for an Inter-Library Loan Feasibility Study carried out for the MLA. Senior managers too have found it has helped them gain a better understanding of the work needed to provide an IDS service to users, Jean says. Copies have also been sold overseas and as Jean emphasises, this has been gratifying as another aim of the editors was to help those who were not familiar with the IDS system in the UK.
5. LIBRARIAN ACTIVIST.ORG
http://www.librarianactivist.org/index.html
This really useful website was established by Danielle Dennie, a Science
Librarian at the Université du Québec a Montréal. It provides news,
information and resources to librarians who “want to be active in political and
social issues surrounding libraries and librarianship.”
It includes information about various progressive library groups, such as
‘Librarians Against the WTO’ and ‘Urbana-Champaign Independent Media
Center Library’.
You can contact the site, send interesting news stories etc to:
info@librarianactivist.org.
6. LIS NEWS: LIBRARIAN AND INFORMATION SCIENCE NEWS
http://lisnews.org/
This collaborative weblog is a very valuable resource for library and information workers, I think.
The LIS News website was created by Blake Carver in 1999, and as it says:
“LISNews is a collaborative weblog…devoted to current events and news in the world of Library and Information Science. A dedicated team of international bloggers scour the World Wide Web to find stories they find interesting. You'll find links to news stories and Web sites, along with original writing, interviews and reviews. LISNews is updated frequently, usually 7 days a week. We are a non-commercial site, supported by our users.” LISNews is ‘open and collaborative’, and includes authors from a wide range of viewpoints. It holds no control over any work submitted for posting and takes no responsibility for work submitted. As such, I think it is a very valuable tool that library and information workers can contribute to.
The weblog includes a lot of interesting news. One of the most recent news items on the website, for example, alerts us to the fact that Michigan Libraries might face 50% cuts in 2008.
7. UPDATE ON COPY/SOUTH DOSSIER
Alan Story circulated the following message on 29th May 2007, in regard to the Copy/South Dossier. It is very good to see interest and discussion on this important document growing in this way and I hope that this will continue.
”Dear Copy/South Dossier reader:About a month ago (26 April), the Copy/South Research Group launched its"Reader Response" project. The project is designed to give readers of theC/S Dossier an opportunity to comment, positively or negatively, on thecontents of the Dossier and/or to tell of their own personal experienceswith copyright in the global South.First, we want to thank the first ten people from seven differentcountries (located on five continents) who have taken up ourinvitation...and you can read their comments under the "Reader Response"section of our website (http://www.copysouth.org/). So a dialogue has beenstarted and, among these responses, you will find some interestingperceptions of the issues at stake.Second, we would like to extend a welcome to other Dossier readers tosubmit their comments and thoughts as well. The e-mail address forresponses is: response@copysouth.org.
The C/S website gives a brief backgrounder on why we set up this projectand a few guidelines drawn up for submissions. We will be happy to postyour thoughts on our website.Best wishesAlan Story for the Copy/South Reader Response Project. http://www.copysouth.org/”
8. BOOK CHAPTERS ON TRIPS BY RUTH RIKOWSKI
News Update No. 13 included information about my various published
works on the topic of Globalisation, Information and Libraries. However, I omitted to include 2 items; that is, 2 forthcoming edited collections which I have chapters in. This information is now outlined below.
A Marxist analysis of the World Trade Organisation’s agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (2007) (forthcoming) in
Global Knowledge Cultures, edited by Cushla Kapitzke and Michael A. Peters, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers
Traditional Knowledge and TRIPS (2007) (forthcoming) in
Information for Social Change: Writings from a Radical Library Collective, edited by Shiraz Durrani, Library Juice Press, LCC: USA
9. OBTAINING HARD COPIES OF MY PUBLISHED ARTICLES ON ‘GLOBALISATION, INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES’
News Update No. 13 included information about various published articles of mine that are only available in hard copy. If anyone would like copies of any of these articles, just get in contact with me (rikowskigr@aol.com) and let me know what article(s) you would like, and I will send the relevant copies to you.
Many thanks to Sue Batley, Jean Bradford and Alan Story for providing information for items 3,4 and 7 respectively and to Steve Fesenmaier for providing information for items 5 and 6.
Best wishes,
Ruth
2nd June 2007
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