Ruth Rikowski Updates

Sixth News Update

Part Two

2. Focus on Kingsley Oghojafor

Kingsley Oghojafor is a graduate of mass communication and lives in Nigeria. Kingsley is a freelance writer and an author who has written several articles and books on topics such as self-publishing, development issues and I.T.  He has also designed and developed a number of websites.

In particular, Kingsley’s Chandos publication is entitled

‘EBook publishing success: how anyone can write, compile and sell ebooks on the Internet’ (2005). For further information see:

http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=38

In regard to his work for ISC, he was the previous webmaster, has written a number of articles for ISC, and has been participating in the library workshops at the World Social Forum (WSF), at the invitation of Mikael Böök (also on ISC Editorial Board). See Kingsley’s document about the WSF:

‘Document – the role of the library in the WSF process’ (Training the Trainers Workshop, 2006), ISC issue No.24 (winter) 2006: - see

http://libr.org/isc/issues/ISC24/A18-Oghojafor-WSF.pdf

The first article he published in ISC was about water privatisation.

‘The poison called water privatisation’, ISC issue No.17 (winter) 2002:

http://libr.org/isc/articles/16-Oghojafor.html

Kingsley was also one of my regular book reviewers, when I was the book reviews editor for Managing Information (the monthly ASLIB magazine).

The MI Book Reviews section can be found at: http://www.managinginformation.com/bookreviews.htm

3. Focus on Paul Catherall

Paul Catherall is currently employed as a 'Web Developer' at NEWI (North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, Wrexham) having played a key role in developing the use of e-learning within NEWI. For a few years, Paul has contributed to the Information for Social Change e-journal, and assisted at various times with technical aspects of the ISC Web-site, ISC related events, journal articles, reviews and editorial contributions. He is the current ISC webmaster and is also on the Advisory Editorial Board of Information for Social Change. Paul also participates as a committee member of the Career Development Group Wales, assisting in developing courses runin Wales to promote the personal development of library and information workers. Paul is also undertaking research in the area of 'distributed learning' for a doctoral programme of study with Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). Other interests include Web Accessibility and ethical issues for general public service provision. Paul has formerly worked as a Further Education tutor, in Primary Education and in an academic library. He is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, UK (CILIP), an Associate Practitioner of the Higher Education Academy and holds an MA with distinction in Library and Information Management (from Liverpool John Moores University). Publications by Paul include a stand-alone book Delivering E-Learning for Information Services in Higher Education (Chandos Publishing: Oxford 2005). See: http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=48 – and an illustrated poetry anthology, see: http://poetry.draigweb.co.uk/

Further details of Paul's publications, research and other interests may be found at: http://draigweb.co.uk/elearning