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ISC Editorial BoardJohn Pateman (UK) - Cuban Libraries Solidarity Groupemail: johnpateman9
John Pateman has worked in public libraries for 28 years in six local authorities. He has been Head of Libraries in Hackney, Merton and Lincolnshire. He is particularly interested in social exclusion, internationalism and libraries as an agent of social change. He was a founding member of The Network- tackling social exclusion in libraries, museums, archives and galleries. He was a founding member of the Quality Leaders Programme for Black Library Workers. He was a founder of Information for Social Change and is part of its editorial collective; he was also the founder of the Cuban Libraries Solidarity Group. He is International Officer for the Lincolnshire branch of UNISON and he is secretary of the Lincolnshire Cuba Solidarity Campaign. He is a Fellow of CILIP and of the Institute of Public Sector Management. He has been an active member of the Branch & Mobile Libraries Group, the International Group, the Diversity Group and LINK: a network for North-South library development. John was Head of Libraries in Merton when it won the Libraries Change Lives Award (2001) for services to asylum seekers and refugees. In 2002 he received the National Culture Award from the Cuban government for his services to Cuban libraries. He was Head of Libraries in Lincolnshire when it won the CILIP Diversity Award for Organisational Change (2005) and the CLIP/LiS Libraries Change Lives Award for services to guest workers (2006). In June 2003 John shared a platform with Fidel Castro at the International Congress of Culture and Development in Havana. In December 2004 he attended the World Gathering of Intellectuals and Artists in Defence of Humanity which was held in Caracas, Venezuela. In May 2005 he gave two key note addresses at the Vancouver Public Library staff conference: Developing a Needs Based Library Service; and Public Libraries and Social Exclusion. In September 2005 he presented a paper at the Public Libraries and Social Exclusion conference in Medellin, Colombia. In June 2006 he attended the Canadian Library Association conference in Ottowa and presented a paper on the Systemic Barriers to Library Use: Libraries Engage the Socially Excluded. John has written many articles on aspects of social exclusion ' especially social class ' community development, internationalism and libraries in Cuba. He was a member of the government working group which produced Libraries for all: social inclusion in public libraries (1999) and of the research team which produced Open to All' The Public Library and Social Exclusion (2000). He was a member of the CILIP Policy Action Group on Social Exclusion which produced Making a Difference - Innovation and Diversity (2002). He has written a publication on Developing a Needs Based Library Service (2003) as part of the NIACE Lifelines in adult learning series. In 2006 he co-authored with John Vincent two chapters in the British Librarianship and Information Work series: 'From Equal Opportunities to Social Exclusion' (1991-2000) and 'From Social Inclusion to Community Cohesion' (2001-2005). Ruth Rikowski (UK) - London South Bank University and Commissioning Editor for Chandos Series for Information Professionals Ruth Rikowski has been an information professional for some 25 years and has worked in a variety of organisations, in both the public and the private sector. She began her professional career in public libraries, working in the London Borough of Newham. Having gained an MSc in Information Science (Computerised Systems) from University College London in 1994, she then worked on the Support Desk of a library software company (Dynix). Following on from this, she implemented library management computer systems at Clifford Chance London Ltd, an international law company, (implementing Unicorn) and Havering College of Further and Higher Education (implementing Dynix). She also took the Tate Gallery through a large upgrade of its Unicorn library management computer system. Ruth is particularly interested in the gender/I.T. issue ? the inequalities between the sexes appear to be increasing rather than decreasing in this regard. Her first article was published in April 2000, in Managing Information (the monthly Aslib magazine), which was about the relationship between library and I.T. departments. Following on from this, she became the Book Reviews Editor for Managing Information, from 2001-2004. She has written several articles and book reviews for Managing Information. Ruth now has over 50 published articles and reviews, in a variety of journals, largely on the topics of globalisation, knowledge management and computers/information technology. She is developing a whole body of theory around these topics - an Open Marxist theoretical perspective ? see, for example, her article On the impossibility of determining the length of the working-day for intellectual labour, in Information for Social Change, Issue 19. Her book Globalisation, Information and Libraries: the implications of the World Trade Organisation?s GATS and TRIPS Agreements was published in February 2005, with Chandos publishers. The book builds on her many published articles on the topic, which have been published in a variety of journals, including the IFLA Journal, Managing Information, Business Information Review and The Commoner. A paper of hers on Globalisation and Libraries was also published in the UK House of Lords Report on Globalisation, in 2002. Ruth has given many talks around her subject interests to a variety of audiences, including students and staff in universities, various left-wing organisations and library and information conferences and shows. She has also been on radio programmes. Ruth has also edited a book on Knowledge Management published by Chandos Publishing in 2007. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at London South Bank University and the University of Greenwich, and is the Commissioning Editor for the Chandos Series for Information Professionals. Also see the website of Ruth and Glenn Rikowski, The Flow of Ideas and see Ruth's Web log (blog). Martyn Lowe (UK) - Founder, Librarians Within the Peace Movementemail: martynlowe
Also see Martyn's paper - The working politics of a Pragmatic Anarchist. Born November 3rd 1949. Martyn has been working in libraries since April 1972 and has been a pacifist activist since 1968. Martyn was initially active within Peace Pledge Union (the British Section of WRI - War Resisters International) and campaigned against the French *nukiller bomb tests in the pacific and nukiller power within Greenpeace (London) 1974-1985; you can view the Mcspotlight website, which gives a brief history of Greenpeace (London group) in which Martyn was involved from 1973 to 1985. Martyn has also been a volunteer within the WRI International Secretariate from 1985 up to the present day (see Martyn's WRI news page). Martyn is also a regular contributor to Peace News and the Housmans Peace Diary & directory. Martyn as been a vegetarian since Jan 26th 1970, & has a particular interest in vegetarian information resouces, he also has an interest in the circa 9,000 clandestine publications which existed throughout Europe during the Nazi occupation and dictatorship. Martyn was also involved in Anti-Fakland War activities. You can read about Martyn's experiences as an activist within the peace movement on the Danish Peace Academy Web site. For information on the Euston Road Peace Walk, contact Housemans bookshop via their web site. Also see Martyn's ISC and LWPM archives, held at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. You can also see an alternative picture of Martyn... * slang - Nuclear. Mikael Böök (Finland)email: book
I'm a member of the Finnish Library Association, and a lover of wisdom. My formal education includes a MA from the university of Helsinki (1973). My working experience is varied. I have served ship-builders as an electrician, taught children at schools, and spent over a decade, the 1980s, as director of Folkets bildningsfönd, (The people's Educational Association) a Leftist Finland-Swedish organiser of study-circles, local history projects, etc. Since the beginning of the 1990s, I have earned my living as a provider of services to internet users and publishers of digital information. The cooperative society "Katto-Meny" (Kaapeli.fi), which has been my employer, grew out of its cooperation with Helsinki City Library 1993-1995 in the creation of a first webserver for the public library. Now I'm retiring from my work at Kaapeli.fi. However, I intend continue as a library and World Social Forum (WSF) activist. My second name, "Böök", probably means "book", but not exactly the thing you read. Rather, it has to do with the European beech (fagus sylvatica). John Vincent (UK) - The Network: tackling social exclusion in libraries, museums, archives and galleriesemail: john
John Vincent has worked in the public sector (primarily in public libraries) since the 1960s. He worked for Hertfordshire and Lambeth library services, and, most recently, for Enfield library service. Since 1999, John has been the Networker for "The Network - tackling social exclusion in libraries, museums, archives and galleries", running training courses and conferences, producing a monthly newsletter, and working on specific projects (such as the Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded project to advocate the role that libraries play in supporting children and young people in care; and Phase 2 of "Welcome to Your Library"). John contributes regularly to Public Library Journals and to CILIP Update, and also leads workshops and gives talks at a number of events. In 2006 he co-authored with John Pateman two chapters in the British Librarianship and Information Work series: ?From Equal Opportunities to Social Exclusion? (1991-2000) and ?From Social Inclusion to Community Cohesion? (2001-2005). Toni Samek (Canada) - Chair, Canadian Library Association's Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedomemail: Toni.Samek
I have been working as an educator and scholar-activist at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta since 1994. My teaching, research, and service interests include critical librarianship, intercultural information ethics, global information justice, human rights, intellectual freedom, academic freedom, and social justice.
Anders Ericson (Norway) - Journalist and librarianemail: frilanders
I'm a librarian by profession, but since 1999 a freelance journalist and consultant, on library issues and for library journals mainly. For the time being I'm the editor of the news column of the web site of the Norwegian Library Association. I have been chief librarian of a small public library and librarian at two university colleges, in pedagogy and engineering; I was also a consultant at the Norwegian State Directorate for Public Libraries in Oslo for 17 years. The democratic potential of public libraries made me choose library education in 1973, and I've been engaged in democracy issues since then; I published a book on The Independent Public Library in 2001 ( in Norwegian only), but I wrote a short version in English for ISC. I'm member of the City Council of my home town, Moss (28 000 inhabitants), very nicely situated by the Oslo Fjord, 60 km south east of Oslo. My party is a small, but rather lively radical (ex-)Maoist party, the Red Electoral Alliance (RV). Paul Catherallemail: p.catherall
Paul has helped to re-design the ISC Web pages for World Wide Web Convention (W3C) Web standards and accessibility compliance, manages the compilation of the ISC issue, developed the ISC policies and contributes occassional papers to ISC. A qualified librarian and Chartered member of CILIP, Paul has worked in a range of library related roles. Paul is currently working as an e-Learning support librarian at the University of Liverpool. Paul also works as a visiting lecturer for Further Education and Higher Education in the area of IT and Information Science and is an Associate of the Higher Education Academy Paul's current research includes educational applications of the World Wide Web, e-learning and Web accessibility. Paul has written a text on e-learning entitled Delivering e-learning for Information Services in Higher Education, available from Chandos Publishing in addition to articles and monographs on his research interests. Paul's initial degree reflected his personal interest in the history of the Nineteenth Century radical movement, including the influence of revolutionary writers on the Romantic school of poetry, the Radical works of the poet Shelley and the prophetic writings and art of William Blake. Paul also dabbles in illustration seen in his illustrated book of poems Foibles, Frolics and Phantasms - Illustrated Poems 1995 - 2005. |
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