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Literature and websites
The beginning of a modest annotated list of selected readings and resources... You can send suggestions via the talkback-feature of this page
Documents, essays and articles on the role of the libraries in the democratization of information
The Right to Memory by Kay Raseroka, Chair, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). - The paper addresses issues around the right to memory - assuming that, as an ideal, such a right is accepted. It discusses barriers to the achievement of this ideal from a library and information perspective which is in the throes of addressing issues of relevance of its services to rural communities. The basic issues are that of orality, literacy and information technology, their relationship to a right to memory, and the challenges faced by the realisation of this ideal. (The paper was presented in a Virtual Conference on The Right to Communicate and the Communication of Rights, held 11 May 1998 - 26 June 1998)
Role and importance of national and state level associations in library development in India, paper by Dr CR Karisiddappa, President of Indian Library Association.
Now We Have a Basis for Library Strategy in Europe by Mirja Ryynänen, former MEP (ELDR) and former chairperson of the Finnish Library Association. Introduces the REPORT on the Green Paper on the Role of Libraries in the Modern World (1998) from the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media of the European Parliament.
Books and E-books
Orality and Literacy. The Technologizing of the Word, by Walter J. Ong (1982, 2002). This classic is perhaps found on your own bookshelf. If not, why not ask your local librarian, or borrow it from a friend? Also, there is an ebook edition, but it is in the extremely exclusive Microsoft Reader format (or maybe not that exclusive, after all), and the pricing is grotesque: USD 36,15 for the ebook, while this book is available in print as paperback from Amacon.com at USD 17,95 (prices per 31 Oct 2003) !
Websites
GKP The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is "an evolving network of public, private and not for profit organizations". The World Bank is a (the?) backbone of the GKP. The GKP Secretariat is presently located at Technology Park Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
ProPoor ProPoor is a nonprofit organisation registered in Kolkata (India), Singapore, and Atlanta, Georgia (USA). The site is descibed as a "a comprehensive Internet portal containing information about South Asian non-governmental organizations, funding agencies, events, projects, jobs opportunities in social development, success stories of individuals as well as organizations, and other relevant links."
Libr.org exists, in its own words "to provide communication services to librarians and library workers, individually and in groups, who believe in libraries as a social good and as an ideal pattern for the exchange of knowledge and ideas, and who wish to promote progressive thought and action and a concept of social responsibility within the library world and in the world at large." The site includes Library Juice, "Biweekly magazine "to promote the library paradigm (and to have fun)"" (italics added by the link-manager). What is "the library paradigm"? Read more!.
UNESCO Libraries Portal
The Public Library of Science Former director of US National Institutes of Health Harold Varmus explains the ideas behind the science library of the 21st century in an interview with New Scientist
SAT-3/WASC/SAFE (South Atlantic Telecommunications cable no.3 / West African Submarine Cable / South Africa Far East) - "a new submarine cable system has been established which closely follows the navigators route from Portugal, down the West Coast of Africa, around the Fairest Cape and finally landing in the East at India and Malaysia." Read report from its inauguration in Dakar 27 May 2002.
The beginning of a modest annotated list of selected readings and resources... You can send suggestions via the talkback-feature of this page
Documents, essays and articles on the role of the libraries in the democratization of information
The Right to Memory by Kay Raseroka, Chair, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). - The paper addresses issues around the right to memory - assuming that, as an ideal, such a right is accepted. It discusses barriers to the achievement of this ideal from a library and information perspective which is in the throes of addressing issues of relevance of its services to rural communities. The basic issues are that of orality, literacy and information technology, their relationship to a right to memory, and the challenges faced by the realisation of this ideal. (The paper was presented in a Virtual Conference on The Right to Communicate and the Communication of Rights, held 11 May 1998 - 26 June 1998)
Role and importance of national and state level associations in library development in India, paper by Dr CR Karisiddappa, President of Indian Library Association.
Now We Have a Basis for Library Strategy in Europe by Mirja Ryynänen, former MEP (ELDR) and former chairperson of the Finnish Library Association. Introduces the REPORT on the Green Paper on the Role of Libraries in the Modern World (1998) from the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media of the European Parliament.
Books and E-books
Orality and Literacy. The Technologizing of the Word, by Walter J. Ong (1982, 2002). This classic is perhaps found on your own bookshelf. If not, why not ask your local librarian, or borrow it from a friend? Also, there is an ebook edition, but it is in the extremely exclusive Microsoft Reader format (or maybe not that exclusive, after all), and the pricing is grotesque: USD 36,15 for the ebook, while this book is available in print as paperback from Amacon.com at USD 17,95 (prices per 31 Oct 2003) !
Websites
GKP The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is "an evolving network of public, private and not for profit organizations". The World Bank is a (the?) backbone of the GKP. The GKP Secretariat is presently located at Technology Park Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
ProPoor ProPoor is a nonprofit organisation registered in Kolkata (India), Singapore, and Atlanta, Georgia (USA). The site is descibed as a "a comprehensive Internet portal containing information about South Asian non-governmental organizations, funding agencies, events, projects, jobs opportunities in social development, success stories of individuals as well as organizations, and other relevant links."
Libr.org exists, in its own words "to provide communication services to librarians and library workers, individually and in groups, who believe in libraries as a social good and as an ideal pattern for the exchange of knowledge and ideas, and who wish to promote progressive thought and action and a concept of social responsibility within the library world and in the world at large." The site includes Library Juice, "Biweekly magazine "to promote the library paradigm (and to have fun)"" (italics added by the link-manager). What is "the library paradigm"? Read more!.
UNESCO Libraries Portal
The Public Library of Science Former director of US National Institutes of Health Harold Varmus explains the ideas behind the science library of the 21st century in an interview with New Scientist
SAT-3/WASC/SAFE (South Atlantic Telecommunications cable no.3 / West African Submarine Cable / South Africa Far East) - "a new submarine cable system has been established which closely follows the navigators route from Portugal, down the West Coast of Africa, around the Fairest Cape and finally landing in the East at India and Malaysia." Read report from its inauguration in Dakar 27 May 2002.
