Af Steen Bording Andersen, Pia Henriette Friis og Tine Segel
Henholdsvis formand for Danmarks Biblioteksforening, formand for Bibliotekschefforeningen og formand for Bibliotekarforbundet
Den gældende bibliotekslov blev vedtaget i 2000.
Förra veckan inträffade den internationella bibliotekskonferensen Next Library 2017 i danska Aarhus. 250 deltagare från ett ca 30 länder träffades i tre dagar för att samtala om biblioteksutveckling och framtidens utmaningar för folkbiblioteken. Jag var en av de tursamma som fick möjlighet att delta. Naturligtvis är det helt omöjligt att beskriva allt som hände, men…
Mariann Scheide 2014: Biblioteka – og biblioteksjefane – er i ein utprøvingsfase som debattarena. Dette er nybrottsarbeid for mange, og det må vere nokre rom for noko prøving og feiling i denne fasen, skriv Mariann Schjeide.
The Libraries for Peace (L4P) initiative promotes the role of libraries to advance peace internationally. This website and social media provide resources for libraries and others to learn about what libraries are doing to promote peace, how they can initiate their own efforts, and where these actions are taking place; to discuss and share ideas of libraries and peacebuilding; and to serve as an information hub for an international library celebration and action day for peace. This Libraries for Peace (L4P) Day calls on libraries and librarians around the world to annually observe International Day of Peace on 21 September, and to pledge to act to advance peace. This international web portal supports and promotes libraries and librarians to collectively promote, support, build on and celebrate our peacebuilding efforts.
Det finns en överhängande risk att EU missar chansen att uppdatera upphovsrätten för en digital verklighet, skriver Svensk biblioteksförenings ordförande Johanna Hansson, och påpekar att det är avgörande att den kommande regeringen agerar snabbt.
By Zeynep Tufekci, part of MIT Technology Review's September/October 2018 Issue. "To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves." and perhaps also to look beyond the USA...
"Dissidents can more easily circumvent censorship, but the public sphere they can now reach is often too noisy and confusing for them to have an impact. Those hoping to make positive social change have to convince people both that something in the world needs changing and there is a constructive, reasonable way to change it. Authoritarians and extremists, on the other hand, often merely have to muddy the waters and weaken trust in general so that everyone is too fractured and paralyzed to act. The old gatekeepers blocked some truth and dissent, but they blocked many forms of misinformation too."
"Perhaps the simplest statement of the problem, though, is encapsulated in Facebook’s original mission statement (which the social network changed in 2017, after a backlash against its role in spreading misinformation). It was to make the world “more open and connected.” It turns out that this isn’t necessarily an unalloyed good. Open to what, and connected how? The need to ask those questions is perhaps the biggest lesson of all."
"Vapaakappaletyöasemat", osa artikkelia Työskentely kirjastossa | Kansalliskirjasto
Kokoelmiimme tutustuminen edellyttää joskus mikrofilmilukulaitteiden ja vapaakappaletyöasemien käyttöä. Joskus aineistoon on tutustuttava kirjaston tiloissa, joko lukusaleissamme tai kuunteluhuoneessa perinteisen kotilainauksen sijasta.
Bokomtalen ble opprinnelig publisert på World Socialist Web Site; oversatt av Knut R. for WSWS den 3. september 2018. Av Andre Damon
Seymour Hersh, gravejournalisten som spilte en ledende rolle i avsløringen av My-Lai-massakren i 1968 og av Bush-administrasjonens tortur av fanger i Abu Ghraib, har utgitt en etterlengtet selvbiografi. Hersh er en av verdens…
World Beyond War , By Marc Eliot Stein, June 8, 2018
In early April, more than 3100 Google employees signed a letter that begins with the words “Google should not be in the business of war”. The letter is a response to the company’s participation in a new US Department of Defense artificial intelligence program called Project Maven, which it describes as a “customized AI surveillance engine” designed to interpret visual images from drones, and concludes with a powerful request from Google employees to their management:
“Recognizing Google’s moral and ethical responsibility, and the threat to Google’s reputation, we request that you:
1. Cancel this project immediately
2. Draft, publicize, and enforce a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology”
av Rasmus Fleischer. Referat av hans teser om e-böcker från 2013. T ex:
"Bibliotek som hanterar e-böcker måste ha en idé om vad e-böcker ska vara
E-böcker representerar en maktfördelning och ett tolkningsföreträde.
Övervakningsfrågan är en parameter som måste vara med i e-boksförhandlingar.
Bibliotek sysslar traditionellt med litteraturförmedling även för människor som inte vet riktigt vad de vill ha. Det är en viktig funktion som inte finns i e-bokhandel.
Det är avgörande att man äger, eller åtminstone förfogar eller har kontroll över den. Om Elib äger och kontrollerar samlingen, är det de som är biblioteket.
Om inte biblioteken står upp för en egen idé om vad e-böcker bör vara så kommer de att köras över. Biblioteken borde vara en utmaning för e-boken. Det kommer att uppstå konflikter kring detta. Dessa konflikter bör tas. Debatt bör uppmuntras."
From Brewster Kahle's blog 29.11.2016
"The history of libraries is one of loss. The Library of Alexandria is best known for its disappearance.
Libraries like ours are susceptible to different fault lines:
Earthquakes,
Legal regimes,
Institutional failure.
So this year, we have set a new goal: to create a copy of Internet Archive’s digital collections in another country. We are building the Internet Archive of Canada because, to quote our friends at LOCKSS, “lots of copies keep stuff safe.” "
"Our mission: to give everyone access to all knowledge, forever. For free. The Internet Archive has only 150 staff but runs one of the top-250 websites in the world. Reader privacy is very important to us, so we don’t accept ads that track your behavior. We don’t even collect your IP address. But we still need to pay for the increasing costs of servers, staff and rent."