[esocialaction] FW: Information for Social Change Issue 24

[Walker, Steve]

May be of interest,
 
Steve
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Steve Walker, Senior Lecturer
Leeds Metropolitan University
School of Information Management
Phone: (44) 113 283 7448
Skype: steve_walker

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From: Networked Learning in Higher Education on behalf of Paul Catherall
Sent: Tue 9/1/07 10:06
To: NETWORKED-LEARNING at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Information for Social Change Issue 24



Hi,
the latest issue of Information for Social Change is now available.

Information for Social Change issue 24 is a special issue on: Libraries & Information in World Social Forum Context. 

Special Issue Editors: Mikael Böök and Shiraz Durrani.

The full issue can be viewed in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format on the ISC Web site:

http://www.libr.org/isc/ <http://www.libr.org/isc/> 

Contents include:
 
Editorial: Welcoming people power on the occasion of the World Social Forum (Shiraz Durrani) 
Introduction: Waiting On The World To Change (Mikael Böök) 

* Politics of information: reality & vision 

Never be Silent. Three questions from BiS to Shiraz Durrani 
2015. The Public Library as a Political Category (Mikael Böök)

* World Social Forum

The World According to Chico (The Right Livelihood Award 2006) 
Social Movements Set to Assert Their Presence at WSF Nairobi 2007 (Oloo Onyango) 
From Event to Process (Martí Olivella and Nicolas Haeringer) 
Further readings on the World Social Forum

* World Public Finances

The Secret Making a Joke out of Development Efforts (Emma Lochery) 
New for 2007! (Advertisement) 
It's poor people's money that makes the wealthy rich (Francine Mestrum) 
World Public Finances Concept Paper (Matti Kohonen) 
Further readings on World Public Finances

* World Public Library 

* Mumbai, January 2004

Democratisation of Information with a focus on libraries - A report from two workshops (Mikael Böök) 
Libraries: Open Spaces (Kay Raseroka) 

* Bamako Experiences, January-February 2006

The Role of the Library in the WSF Process (Proceedings by Kingsley Oghojafor) 
On The Library Situation in Mali (Mamadou Keita) 
The Spirit of (West) African Libraries (Mikael Böök) 

* Training the Trainers Workshop, 2006

Proposal for a training of trainers workshop for librarians on the WSF at Nairobi Safari Club (Esther Obachi) 
Day to day reports about the Training of the Trainers (Jane Sang & Fred Kachero) 
The Management of the WSF Information (Esther Obachi) 
How to Share Information and Ideas Worldwide Completely Free Using the New Information Wonder Called Blogs (Kingsley Oghojafor) 

* Preparing for Nairobi WSF, January 2007

Workshop on documenting the World Social Forum (WSF) - East African School of Library and Information Science 12th-14th December 2006 (Joan Okune) 
The Khanya College Resource Centre - education and information for liberation and social change (Andi Kaiser) 
On "diffusion" and making distinctions (Alan Story) 
A comment on Copyrights, Author's Rights and Fair Use (Mikael Böök) 
Unlocking the Global Information Fortress (WSF activity info) 
Documenting of the WSF Information (WSF activity info) 
Further Reading 

* Equality & Social Justice

The immigrant and "Britishness" in Britain (Ronald Elly Wanda) 

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Information for Social Change is an activist organisation that examines issues of censorship, freedom and ethics amongst library and information workers. It is committed to promoting alternatives to the dominant paradigms of library and information work and publishes its own journal, Information for Social Change (freely available online at http://www.libr.org/isc <http://www.libr.org/isc> ). 

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