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Alan Hopkinson

Alan Hopkinson
Technical Manager (Library Services)
Middlesex University
London

 

Email: 
a.hopkinson@mdx.ac.uk
Web site: 
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/

Alan Hopkinson works primarily in a consultancy role leading externally funded projects at Middlesex University Learning Resources. He is currently managing a project to modernise library and information science teaching in Armenia, Georgia and Uzbekistan and leading Middlesex input in improving information literacy in the Balkans as well as modernising library IT infrastructure in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzogovina. He is a member of IFLA's Committee on Standards established in 2012.

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Profile last updated: 
February 2012

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Peculiarities of Digitising Materials from the Collections of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia

Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition.

issue68 March 2012

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