Showing posts with label librarians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label librarians. Show all posts
20 July 2013

After Muzzling Librarians And Scientists, Now Canada Starts Making It Difficult For Citizens To Express Their Views

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Last month, Techdirt wrote about the requirement for librarians employed by the Canadian government to self-censor their opinions, even...
31 March 2013

Canadian Librarians 'Owe Duty Of Loyalty To The Government,' Must Self-Censor Opinions Even In Private

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Librarians can play an important role in any society that depends increasingly on access to information to function. One of their jobs ...
01 August 2008

BL = Betrayed Library

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This kind of naive adulation is beginning to stick in my craw: The British Library is bringing some of the world's rarest books online,...
31 January 2008

Why Developing Nations Love Free Software

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How about for these reasons ? - In Georgia, most library management systems are available in English or Russian… any student of eastern Euro...
25 April 2007

EU + IPRED2 = EUdiots

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What were they thinking ? The European Parliament today accepted the IP Criminal Measures directive after its first reading in a vote of 374...
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22 December 2006

Open Source: Just the Ticket for Librarians

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Here's a well-written story about how librarians have undertaken a major open source project with great success: The system, Evergreen,...
03 March 2006

Beyond Parallel Universes

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One of the themes of this blog is the commonality between the various opens. In a piece I wrote for the excellent online magazine LWN.net,...
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