Ruth Rikowski Updates

Twenty-Third News Update

RUTH RIKOWSKI

News Update No.23

PART ONE

The silence from me (nearly two months already I see) is not because I have not had much to impart to you all of late. Far from it, in fact – I am snowed under on that front as well! Rather, it is because this teaching certificate (Certificate of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education - CLTHE) that I am currently studying for is proving to be very demanding and at times seems to be taking over my life! Just as well it is only for a short duration – that is all I can say. On a practical level, what this means unfortunately, is that it is very unlikely that I will be sending out any more of my Updates until after Easter, at least.

However, there are a number of important items that I really did want to share with you all. These are listed below (and other items will haveto wait – apologies to all those concerned here).

1. ‘DIGITAL LIBRARIES’ SPECIAL ISSUE OF POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION, EDITED BY RUTH RIKOWSKI AND ISAAC HUNTER DUNLAP, IS NOW OUT.

The special issue of Policy Futures in Education (the refereed international ejournal) on ‘Digital Libraries’ which I have edited with Isaac Hunter Dunlap is now out. Further details are below:

Policy Futures in Education

Volume 6 Number 1 2008

Available at:
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/6/issue6_1.asp

SPECIAL ISSUE ON
DIGITAL LIBRARIES
Guest Editors: RUTH RIKOWSKI & ISAAC HUNTER DUNLAP

Isaac Hunter Dunlap & Ruth Rikowski: Introduction. A Library Revolution of Digital Proportions

Ruth Rikowski: Digital Libraries and Digitisation: an overview and critique

M. Paul Pandian: Digital Knowledge Resources

Heather Joseph: SPARC: creating innovative models and environments for scholarly research and communication

Tom Peters: Meeting and Serving Users in Their New Work (and Play) Spaces

Lori Bell, Mary-Carol Lindbloom, Tom Peters & Kitty Pope: Virtual Libraries and Education in Virtual Worlds: twenty-first century library services

Jia Liu: Digital Library and Digital Reference Service: integration and mutual complementarity

Mengxiong Liu & Peggy Cabrera: The New Generation of Citation Indexing in the Age of Digital Libraries

Susan Copeland: Electronic Theses and Dissertations: promoting 'hidden' research

Paul Catherall: Learning Systems in Post-Statutory Education

Tatiana Nikolova-Houston & Ron Houston: Building the Virtual Scriptorium

Yehuda E. Kalay: Impacts of New Media on Scholarly Publishing

Isaac Hunter Dunlap: Going Digital: the transformation of scholarly communication and academic libraries

BOOK REVIEWS
Building Knowledge Cultures: education and developments in the age of knowledge capitalism (Michael A. Peters, with A.C. (Tina) Besley), reviewed by Ruth Rikowski
Constraining Public Libraries: the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (Samuel E. Trosow & Kirsti Nilsen), reviewed by Ruth Rikowski
Libr@ries: changing information space and practice (Cushla Kapitzke & Bertam C. Bruce, Eds), reviewed by Ruth Rikowski
Open Source Database Driven Web Development: a guide for information professionals (Isaac Hunter Dunlap), reviewed by Ruth Rikowski

Access to the full texts of current articles is restricted to those who have a Personal subscription (at a very reasonable rate), or those whose institution has a Library subscription. However, all articles become free-to-view 18 months after publication.

Free-to-view articles in Policy Futures in Education by Ruth and Glenn Rikowski:

Rikowski, R. (2003) Value - the Life Blood of Capitalism: knowledge is the current key, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.1 No.1, pp.160-178: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=1&issue=1&year=2003&article=9_Rikowski_PFIE_1_1&id=195.93.21.68

Rikowski, G. (2004) Marx and the Education of the Future, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.2 Nos. 3 & 4, pp.565-577, online at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=2&issue=3&year=2004&article=10_Rikowski_PFEO_2_3-4_web&id=195.93.21.71

Subscriptions

PERSONAL SUBSCRIPTION (single user access). Subscription to the 2008 issues (i.e. full access to the articles in Volume 6, Numbers 1-6) is available to individuals at a cost of US$44.00. Personal subscriptions automatically include free access to ALL PAST ISSUES. If you wish to subscribe you may do so immediately at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/subscribePFIE.asp

LIBRARY SUBSCRIPTION (institution-wide access). If you are working within an institution that maintains a Library, please urge them to purchase a Library subscription so access is provided throughout your institution; full details for libraries can be found at: http://www.symposium-journals.co.uk/prices.html 

For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact Professor Michael A. Peters: mpet001@uiuc.edu

In the event of problems concerning a subscription, or difficulty in gaining access to the journal articles, please contact the publishers at: support@symposium-journals.co.uk

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