Due to changes in my circumstances over the last year this blog will now cease.
Thank you to all my of my readers.
Best wishes
Ruth
Saturday, 25 February 2017
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Why Library Is Not A Dirty Word: Presentation Slides
Ruth Rikowski
Oxford, 2015
WHY LIBRARY IS NOT A
DIRTY WORD:
PRESENTATION SLIDES
The presentation slides for Ruth Rikowski’s talk at The
Froud Centre, Manor Park, London, on 10th June 2016 –are now
available at Academia.
Why Library Is Not A Dirty Word:
Reclaiming Its Power And Possibility
Presentation slides @ http://www.academia.edu/30467128/Why_Library_is_Not_a_Dirty_Word_Reclaiming_its_Power_and_Possibility_Presentation_
Ruth Rikowski @ Academia: http://lsbu.academia.edu/RuthRikowski
Glenn Rikowski
In addition, Glenn Rikowski also has a new post at Academia:
The
Woodhead Federation? The Business Takeover of Schools in England
This can be viewed at: http://www.academia.edu/31544770/The_Woodhead_Federation_The_Business_Takeover_of_Schools_in_England_Presentation_
Glenn Rikowski @ Academia: http://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
Saturday, 22 October 2016
Additions to Academia Posts: October 2016 - RUTH RIKOWSKI
Ruth Rikowski
@ Framlingham Castle, Essex
ADDITIONS TO ACADEMIA
POSTS:
OCTOBER 2016 – RUTH RIKOWSKI
Ruth Rikowski has
posted some new papers to Academia
These are as follows:
Rikowski, Ruth (2001) GATS:
private affluence and public squalor? Implications for libraries and
information, Managing Information,
Vol.8 No.10, December, pp.8-10, online at: http://www.academia.edu/27814491/GATS_private_affluence_and_public_squalor_Implications_for_libraries_and_information
Rikowski, R. (2002) The Corporate Takeover of Libraries, Information for Social Change, No.14,
winter 2001/02, online at: http://www.academia.edu/27807996/The_Corporate_Takeover_of_Libraries
Rikowski, R. (2002) The
WTO/GATS Agenda for Libraries, Talk prepared for a public meeting at Sussex
University, 23rd May 2002, online at: http://www.academia.edu/27815712/The_WTO_GATS_Agenda_for_Libraries_Talk_prepared_for_public_meeting_at_SUSSEX_UNIVERSITY
Rikowski, R. (2002) A First-Time in Glasgow: impressions of
the IFLA Conference, 2002, IFLA Journal,
Vol.28 Nos.5/6, pp.278-280, online at:
Rikowski, R. (2003) Globalisation
and Libraries – House of Lords Paper, in: Report by House of Lords, Select
Committee on Economic Affairs, Session 2002-03, 1st Report, Volume
of Evidence, Part 2, HL Paper 5-11, London: The Stationary Office, online at: http://www.academia.edu/27807221/Globalisation_and_Libraries_House_of_Lords_Paper
Rikowski, R. (2003) The Significance of WTO Agreements for
the Library and Information World, Managing
Information, January / February, Vol.16 No.1, p.43, online at: http://www.academia.edu/27814793/The_Significance_of_WTO_Agreements_for_the_Library_and_Information_Profession
Rikowski, R. (2003) Tripping Along With TRIPS? The World
Trade Organization’s agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights (TRIPS) and its implications for the library and information
world, Managing Information, Vol.10
No.3, April, pp10-12, online at: http://www.academia.edu/27814936/Tripping_Along_with_TRIPS_The_World_Trade_Organizations_agreement_on_Trade-Related_Aspects_of_Intellectual_Property_Rights_TRIPS_and_its_implications_for_the_library_and_information_world
Rikowski, R. (2003) The Role of the Information Professional
in Knowledge Management: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning
for the Library and Information Profession? Managing
Information, Vol.10 No.4, pp.44-47, online at: http://www.academia.edu/27814711/The_Role_of_the_Information_Professional_in_Knowledge_Management_The_Beginning_of_the_End_or_the_End_of_the_Beginning_for_the_Library_and_Information_Profession
Rikowski, R. (2004) Creating Value from Knowledge in the
Knowledge Revolution, Information for
Social Change, No.20, winter 2004, online at: http://www.academia.edu/27807687/Creating_Value_from_Knowledge_in_the_Knowledge_Revolution
Rikowski, R. (2008) Digital Libraries and Digitalisation: an
overview and critique, Policy Futures in
Education, Vol.6 No.1, pp.5-21, online at: http://www.academia.edu/27815559/Digital_Libraries_and_Digitisation_an_overview_and_critique
Rikowski, R. (2008) Computers / Information and
Communications Technology, the Information Profession and the Gender Divide:
Where are we going? Policy Futures in
Education, Vol.6 No.4, pp.482-506, online at: http://www.academia.edu/27815632/Computers_Information_and_Communications_Technology_the_Information_Profession_and_the_Gender_Divide_where_are_we_going
For all of Ruth
Rikowski’s papers at Academia, see: http://lsbu.academia.edu/RuthRikowski
For all of Glenn
Rikowski’s papers at Academia, see: http://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
Thursday, 18 August 2016
Reviewing Our History and Making Plans: The Social Science Centre - Lincoln
REVIEWING OUR HISTORY
AND MAKING PLANS
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE
CENTRE
LINCOLN
Saturday 27th August 2016
10.00 – 4.00
St. Swithin’s Community Centre
Croft Street
Lincoln
LN2 5AZ
Location: https://goo.gl/5Q5NNl
St. Swithin’s Community Centre: http://www.stswithinscroftstreet.org.uk/
The Social Science
Centre (SSC), Lincoln is hosting an event to look back at its activities
since it was founded in 2011 and to make plans for its future.
10:00–12:00: SSC on Reflection,
2011–2016 (SSC members only)
A chance for all past and present members of the Social
Science Centre to reflect on their experiences in the Centre, our activities,
roads we have not taken, changes we should make and hopes for the future.
Highlights to be shared with others later in the day.
12:30–1:30: Lunch (Public, everyone welcome)
Please join us for
lunch!
1:30–4:00: Co-operative
Higher Education in Lincoln (Public, all welcome)
Ideas and making plans for the term/year. It has already
been suggested we run courses on Brexit and the co-operative movement in
Lincoln and the UK
What is the SSC?
The SSC organises higher education that explores the
everyday experiences of its members – who are both students and teachers –
through concepts and ideas developed in the social sciences. This includes
making critical sense of social problems (like ‘austerity’, racism and
nationalism or the privatisation of schools) and important local and global
events like ‘Brexit’, learning how they affect us and how we might have an
effect on them. Our past courses – The Social Science Imagination, Co-operation
and Education, and Know How: Do-It-Ourselves Higher Education – all offered
different approaches to this learning.
We are a co-operative organisation that is owned and run by
our members. This means that we not only have an experience of higher
education, but can decide together what this education should be, how it works
and why it matters. All our members can help run the Centre by taking part in
democratic decision-making processes and collective ownership and
responsibility. No one pays for learning or gets paid for teaching at the SSC
because we do not believe knowledge should be for sale. Members with financial
means make small monthly contributions to the co-operative to pay for room hire
and other running costs.
For more information about the SSC, visit our website: http://socialsciencecentre.org.uk
***END***
‘Human Herbs’ –
a song by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-vyMtfDAs
Posted here by Glenn
Rikowski
Glenn Rikowski @ Academia: http://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
Ruth Rikowski @ Academia: http://lsbu.academia.edu/RuthRikowski
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
New Academia Posts - Ruth Rikowski
Richmond, River Thames
4th May 2016
Picture taken by Glenn Rikowski
NEW ACADEMIA POSTS –
RUTH RIKOWSKI
Ruth Rikowski has
posted some new papers to Academia. These are as follows:
Rikowski, R. (2005) Traditional Knowledge and TRIPS, Information for Social Change, winter,
Issue No. 22, at:
Rikowski, R. (2004) On the impossibility of determining the
length of the working-day for intellectual labour, Information for Social Change, summer, Issue No.19, at: http://www.academia.edu/27738919/On_the_impossibility_of_determining_the_length_of_the_working_day_for_intellectual_labour
Rikowski, R. (2003) TRIPS
into the Unknown: libraries and the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights, IFLA
Journal, Vol.29 No.2, pp.141-151, at: http://www.academia.edu/27738723/TRIPS_into_the_Unknown_libraries_and_the_WTO_Agreement_on_Trade-Related_Aspects_of_Intellectual_Property_Rights
Rikowski, R. (2003)
Library Privatisation: Fact or Fiction? Information
for Social Change, summer, Issue No.17, at: http://www.academia.edu/27765073/Library_Privatisation_Fact_or_Fiction
Rikowski, R. (2002) Globalisation and Libraries – Summary Paper,
House of Lords, Select Committee on Economic Affairs, Inquiry into the Global
Economy, 22nd January, London, at: http://www.academia.edu/27768077/Globalisation_and_Libraries_-_Summary_Paper
Rikowski, R. (2002)
The WTO, the GATS and the meaning of ‘services’, Public Library Journal, Vol.17 No.2, summer, pp.48-50, at: http://www.academia.edu/26196746/The_WTO_the_GATS_and_the_meaning_of_services
For all of Ruth
Rikowski’s papers at Academia, see: http://lsbu.academia.edu/RuthRikowski
Glenn Rikowski also has a new post at Academia:
Rikowski, G. (2002)
The great GATS buyout, Red Pepper,
No.101, November, pp.25-27, at: https://www.academia.edu/27735716/The_great_GATS_buyout
For all of Glenn
Rikowski’s papers at Academia, see: http://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
Friday, 20 May 2016
FOREST VOICES CHOIR: Singing at the Gate (Forest Gate Library)
FOREST VOICES CHOIR
SINGING AT THE GATE
On 16th
June 2016, from 6.30 to 8.00pm
Forest Voices will sing at The Gate
Library and Community Centre, 4 – 20 Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate, London
E7 0QH.
Come and join us for a free evening of song and
enjoyment!
Light refreshments provided.
Funded by a “Let’s Get the Party Started” grant
from the London Borough of Newham
See: https://forestvoicese7.wordpress.com/
and for the flyer relating to the event, see: https://forestvoicese7.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/flyer-forest-gate-sings-16-jun-164.pdf
Ruth Rikowski is a member
of the Forest Voices choir, and will be singing with them at The Gate on 16th
June.
***END***
‘Human Herbs’ –
a song by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-vyMtfDAs
Posted here by Glenn
Rikowski
Glenn Rikowski @ Academia: http://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
Ruth Rikowski @ Academia: http://lsbu.academia.edu/RuthRikowski
Volumizer: http://glennrikowski.blogspot.com
Rikowski Point: http://rikowskipoint.blogspot.co.uk/
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Why Library Is Not A Dirty Word: Reclaiming Its Power and Possibility - VENUE & PROGRAMME CHANGES
The Froud Centre
Ruth Rikowski
WHY LIBRARY IS NOT A
DIRTY WORD:
RECLAIMING ITS POWER AND POSSIBILITY
RECLAIMING ITS POWER AND POSSIBILITY
Friday, 10th June, @ 19:00 – 20.30 (BST)
Venue Change
Now at:
THE FROUD CENTRE
The Coffee Bar
1 Toronto Avenue
Manor Park
Newham
London
E12 5JF
(Only 3 minutes walk from the original venue, the Rabbits Road Institute, Old Manor Park Library, 835 Romford Road, Manor Park, London E12 5JY - just walk a bit further up the Romford Road, towards Ilford)
A talk and discussion about Library campaigns, radical
librarianship and re-imagining the library as a public space.
Programme Change:
Speaker: Ruth Rikowski –
writer, lecturer at London South Bank University, libraries professional and
campaigner, author of Globalisation,
Information and Libraries: The Implications of the World Trade Organisation’s
GATS and TRIPS Agreements (Chandos Publishing), and a freelance editor for
Chandos Publishing, part of the Elsevier group.
Followed by Discussion
Soft drinks provided
Free Admission
No Registration necessary
***END***
Posted here by Glenn
Rikowski
Glenn Rikowski @ Academia: http://independent.academia.edu/GlennRikowski
Ruth Rikowski @ Academia: http://lsbu.academia.edu/RuthRikowski
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