INVITATION TO A BOOK LAUNCH FOR‘DIGITISATION PERSPECTIVES’
 
Digitisation Perspectives
Edited by Ruth Rikowski
Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2011
 
ISBN 978-94-6091-297-9 (pbk); 978-94-6091-6 (hdbk); 
978-94-6091-299-3 (e-book)
£35.00 (pbk); £75.00 (hdbk)
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Part of Book Series:
‘Educational Futures: Rethinking Theory and Practice’
Series Editor: Michael A. Peters
 
Digitisation Perspectives will be launched on Wednesday 16th February 2011,  
17.30 - 20.00
At: Wilkins Terrace Restaurant
University College London
Gower Street
London, WC1E 6BT, England
 
Digitisation Perspectives includes contributions from 22 experts worldwide. 
 
Foreword by Simon Tanner, Director Digital Consultancy, King’s College London, 
who says that the book: “…seeks to address and answer some of the big questions 
of digitisation…It succeeds on many levels…”
 
Topics covered include: electronic theses, search engine technology, 
digitisation of ancient manuscripts, citation indexing, reference services, 
digitisation in Africa, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources 
Coalition, new media and scholarly publishing. The final chapter explores 
virtual libraries, posing some interesting questions for possible futures. 

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
 
FOREWORD:  SIMON TANNER, DIRECTOR, KING’S DIGITAL CONSULTANCY SERVICES, KING’S 
COLLEGE, LONDON


INTRODUCTION:  RUTH RIKOWSKI


PART 1: BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW TO DIGITISATION AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES
 
Chapter 1:  The Rise of Digitization: An Overview - Melissa M. Terras          
Chapter 2:  Digital Libraries and Digitisation: an overview and critique –
Ruth Rikowski             
Chapter 3:  Digital Knowledge Resources – M. Paul Pandian               
Chapter 4: Digitisation: research, sophisticated search engines, evaluation: all 
that and more – Ruth Rikowski
 
 
PART 2: DIGITISATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION 
 
Chapter 5:  Improving student mental models in a new university information 
setting – Alan Rosling and Kathryn Chapman
Chapter 6:  Electronic Theses and Dissertations: promoting ‘hidden’ research – 
Susan Copeland
Chapter 7:  Learning Systems in Post-Statutory Education – Paul Catherall
Chapter 8:  Going Digital: the transformation of scholarly communication and 
academic libraries – Isaac Hunter Dunlap
 
        
PART 3: DIGITISATION AND INEQUALITIES 
 
Chapter 9:  Hegemony and the Web: the Struggle for Hegemony in a Digital Age – 
Tony Ward
Chapter 10: Digital libraries: an opportunity for African education – Dieu 
Hack-Polay     

Chapter 11:        Critical Perspectives on Digitising Africa – by Leburn Rose
 
 
PART 4: DIGITAL LIBRARIES, REFERENCE SERVICES AND CITATION INDEXING
 
Chapter 12: Digital Library and Digital Reference Service: integration and 
mutual complementarity – Jia Liu             

Chapter 13: The New Generation of Citation Indexing in the Age of Digital 
Libraries – Mengxiong Liu and Peggy Cabrera         

 
 
PART 5: DIGITISATION OF RARE, VALUED AND SCHOLARLY WORKS    
 
Chapter 14: Building the Virtual Scriptorium – Tatiana Nikolova-Houston and Ron 
Houston                

Chapter 15: SPARC: creating innovative models and environments for scholarly 
research and communication – Heather Joseph     

Chapter 16: Impacts of New Media on Scholarly Publishing – Yehuda E. 
Kalay                      

 
 
PART 6: FUTURISTIC DEVELOPMENTS OF DIGITISATION
 
Chapter 17: Meeting and Serving Users in Their New Work (and Play) Spaces – Tom 
Peters        

Chapter 18: Virtual Libraries and Education in Virtual Worlds: twenty-first 
century library services – Lori Bell, Mary-Carol Lindbloom, Tom Peters and Kitty 
Pope                                

 
CONCLUSION: RUTH RIKOWSKI
 
Cover designed by Victor Rikowski
 
Refreshments provided.

Confirmed speakers at the launch include:
 
An Introduction by Andy Dawson, Senior Teaching Fellow and MSc Information 
Science Programme Director, Department of Information Studies, UCL.
 
Ruth Rikowski is a Freelance Editor, commissioning books for Chandos Publishing, 
Oxford. She is an Associate of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered 
Librarian. Ruth Rikowski is the author of Globalisation, Information and 
Libraries (Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2005) and the editor of Knowledge 
Management: social, cultural and theoretical perspectives (Oxford: Chandos 
Publishing, 2007). She has also written numerous articles and given many talks; 
focusing in particular on the topics of globalisation, knowledge management and 
information technology. Ruth Rikowski is on the Editorial Board of Policy 
Futures in Education and Information for Social Change. The Rikowski website, 
‘The Flow of Ideas’ can be found at www.flowideas.co.ukand her blog, ‘Ruth 
Rikowski Updates’ is at http://ruthrikowskiupdates.blogspot.com/
 
Paul Catherall is a librarian currently working at University of Liverpool, UK. 
Paul has worked in E-Learning and technical support roles over a number of years 
and his current role involves providing library services to students studying 
online. Paul also worked for several years as a college lecturer in Information 
Communications Technology.  Paul is also undertaking a PhD within the area of 
E-Learning and is a graduate of Glyndŵr University, formerly the North East 
Wales Institute of Higher Education (B.A.) and John Moores University (M.A. 
Dist). Paul is also an associate of the Higher Education Academy and chartered 
member of Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). 
Paul has also been active in various CILIP affiliated groups, including the 
Career Development Group and is a member of the Editorial Board for the 
collective forum and journal Information for Social Change. Paul has authored 
various published journal articles and texts including a stand-alone book 
Delivering E-Learning for Information Services in Higher Education (Chandos 
2005). 

 
Julianne Nyhan – on behalf of Melissa Terras, who is a Senior Lecturer in 
Electronic Communication in the Department of Information Studies, University 
College London, and the Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Digital 
Humanities. With a background in Classical Art History and English Literature, 
and Computing Science, her doctorate (University of Oxford) examined how to use 
advanced information engineering technologies to interpret and read the 
Vindolanda texts.  She is a general editor of DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly) 
and Secretary of the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing. Her 
research focuses on the use of computational techniques to enable research in 
the arts and humanities that would otherwise be impossible.
 
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