Modeling Information Diffusion in University Libraries: Assessing Peer Interaction Patterns as a Complex Dynamic System

This presentation was offered as part of the CUNY Library Assessment Conference, Reinventing Libraries: Reinventing Assessment, held at the City University of New York in June 2014.

The Nine Circles of Surveillance Hell: An Institutional View of Information Flows and Information Threats in Libraries

In the past few years, libraries have started to design public programs that educate patrons about different tools and techniques to protect personal privacy. But do end user solutions provide adequate safeguards against surveillance by corporate and government actors? What does a comprehensive plan for privacy entail in order that libraries live up to their privacy values? In this paper, the authors discuss the complexity of surveillance architecture that the library institution might confront when seeking to defend the privacy rights of patrons. This architecture consists of three main parts: physical or material aspects, logical characteristics, and social factors of information and communication flows in the library setting. For each category, the authors will present short case studies that are culled from practitioner experience, research, and public discourse. The case studies probe the challenges faced by the library—not only when making hardware and software choices, but also choices related to staffing and program design. The paper shows that privacy choices intersect not only with free speech and chilling effects, but also with questions that concern intellectual property, organizational development, civic engagement, technological innovation, public infrastructure, and more. The paper ends with discussion of what libraries will require in order to sustain and improve efforts to serve as stewards of privacy in the 21st century.

Library exceptions in the copyright laws of Ibero-American countries

The development of the digital setting has made it absolutely necessary to revise copyright legislation as a whole, including the exceptions that benefit libraries and similar institutions. Unfortunately, adaptation to the new technological reality is not taking place satisfactorily in most countries - the predominating trend is a refortification of copyright as opposed to user interests, and the maintenance of a certain pre-digital philosophy. In the case of Ibero-America the problem is twofold: aside from obsolescence or a lack of adaptation to the new technological setting, there are countries that have not yet included library-related exceptions in the national laws. Moreover, these happen to be developing countries, whose needs and interests do not coincide with those of the richer nations who paved the path to be followed by international treaties and copy- or copyright agreements. This study looks into the situation of exceptions to copyright to benefit libraries in the countries constituting Ibero-America, with a comparative analysis of the most significant characteristics of their national laws. It is concluded that it is crucial for these countries to take advantage of the options offered through the WIPO Copyright Treaty of 1996 and the results of the WIPO Development Agenda to update their legislation, in order that copyright will be respected, while at the same time making it easier for libraries to continue carrying out their social function in an adequate manner, always with the understanding of the developmental context of these countries.

Building an information society: a Latin American and Caribbean perspective

Includes bibliography

Monitoring eLAC2007: progress and current state of development of Latin American and Caribbean information societies

Includes bibliography

The Latin American and Caribbean Population Information Network Red IPALCA: 2 years progress report 1989-1990""

Includes bibliography

Knowledge and data for population in development: information activities of CELADE and the Latin American and Caribbean Population Information Network (IPALCA)

Includes bibliography

Education, communication and culture in the information society: a Latin American perspective

Includes bibliography

Acceso a las fuentes de información estadística sobre el comercio exterior de América Latina = Access to information sources on Latin American foreign trade statistics

Incluye Bibliografía

Antecedentes para la participación de los países latinoamericanos en el Vigesimocuarto Período de Sesiones de la Comisión de Estadística de Naciones Unidas = Background information for the participation of Latin American countries in the Twenty-fourth Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission

Describe la agenda de la proxima reunion, comenta temas de esa agenda en los que hay programas previstos o en ejecucion, y enumera elementos del programa de trabajo de la Oficina de Estadistica de las NU sobre los cuales la Comision debe tomar decisiones.

Information activities of the Latin American Demographic Centre (ECLAC

Includes bibliography

Report of the Joint Seminar of the Latin American Demographic Center (CELADE) and the Latin American Programme for Population Activities (PROLAP). Information on Population for Development

Publicado anteriormente en español con el mismo símbolo