Paul Rudd Information Professional

expertise gained through experience

Areas of Interest

I have a specific interest in the following:

  • All aspects connected with digital resources , which includes collection management of these types of resources, digital preservation, institutional repositories. and digitisation projects
  • Library and information services within HE institutions, their roles, the services they offer, how they function and how they are managed
  • Marketing (specifically how marketing can be used in the context of library and information services)
  • Cloud computing (particularly aspects connected with running instances of software such as Moodle, Koha and Dspace in the cloud.)
  • MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), such as Udacity, Coursera, and MIT and Harvard’s edX
  • Learning development and aspects connected with running learning development units (or departments that are involved with learning development activities)
  • Learning and teaching technologies such as eportfolio software and VLEs
  • Web development using content management systems, most notably Drupal and WordPress
  • Library/information service architecture and design projects
  • Communication within library and information services. The types of methods and technologies that staff use to communicate  with their colleagues within the service, and how they communicate information to the institution/university as a whole.
  • Enterprise software (particularly how this level of software offers solutions for the education sector and for businesses)