Access to information

Policing the Internet is not a Job for a Corporation

[PDF]... In light of recent legislation in the US (SOPA and PIPA), and a decision last week in the Netherlands that orders Dutch ISPs to block access to the Pirate Bay website, this excellent ne...

Publication - 18 January 2012 (created)

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FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression), Access to information, Censorship, Publication

EMMILE: European Meeting on Media and Information Literacy Education in Libraries

"EMMILE in Libraries (and beyond)" is a joint three-day meeting that, through a set of joint initiatives—organized thanks to the collaboration of IFLA SLRC, IASL, AIB, AIB Lombardia, ...

Event - 12 January 2012 (created)

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Access to information, Conference, Information Literacy, Italy

Call for Papers—Subject Access now: Inspiring, surprising, empowering

For the Classification & Indexing Section Open Session we invite presentations showing new and innovative ways of providing subject access to users from all types of libraries – approaches ...

News - 10 January 2012 (created)

Tagged:
Access to information, Access to knowledge, Audiovisual and multimedia, Children, Classification and Indexing, Classification and indexing, Collections, Conferences, Digital resources, Electronic collections, Electronic delivery, Electronic resources, Finland, Indexing, Information technology, Metadata, Public access catalogues, Resource discovery

Taller de la IFLA sobre transparencia y buen gobierno: Argentina

Por Magdalena Biota... English... El 28 de septiembre de 2011, en coincidencia con el “Día del acceso a la información”, se realizó en Buenos Aires el Taller sobre transpar...

News - 2 January 2012 (created)

Tagged:
Access to information, Access to information, Argentina, Government Libraries, Transparency

IFLA workshop on transparency and good governance: Argentina

Español... On September 28, 2011, simultaneously with the “Access to information day”, the Workshop on transparency and good governance was carried out in Buenos Aires. Cosponsored by...

News - 1 January 2012 (created)

Tagged:
Access to information, Argentina, Government Libraries

Call for papers: Copyright Law and Legal Deposit for Audiovisual Materials

IFLA WLIC 11-16 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland... Copyright laws have been established in many countries in the print age and have not been updated to meet the new needs of the digital era.  Ther...

News - 19 December 2011 (created)

Tagged:
Access to information, Audiovisual and Multimedia, Copyright, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Information policy, Intellectual property, Policy

UNESCO endorses the IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries

[العربية]... The Hague/Paris... UNESCO has endorsed the IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries at its General Conference 2011. The Manifesto provides principles to assist libraries in undertaking ...

News - 13 December 2011 (created)

Tagged:
Digital Libraries, Access to information, Digitisation, Preservation, Press Release

An attempt to understand what the proposed Internet filtering system in Turkey means

[PDF]... As of March 2011, Reporters Without Borders would include Turkey on its 2011 list of 16 countries "under surveillance" (the less serious of two Internet censorship lists that it ...

Publication - 19 November 2011 (created)

Tagged:
FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression), Access to information, Censorship, Publication

Intellectual Freedom across the Globe

Registration is now open for “Intellectual Freedom across the Globe,” a series of three webinars on international issues related to free speech, censorship and access to information in ...

Event - 24 October 2011 (created)

Tagged:
FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression), Access to information, Censorship, Freedom of information, Webinar

Registration now open for November “Intellectual Freedom across the Globe” webinar series

CHICAGO - Registration is now open for “Intellectual Freedom across the Globe,” a series of three webinars on international issues related to free speech, censorship and access to inform...

News - 21 October 2011 (created)

Tagged:
FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression), Access to information, Electronic collections

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