Working with the SDGs, Working with Politicians: Interview with the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia

Engaging with the UN Sustainable Development Goals opens up possibilities for libraries to create connections with United Nations agencies, while focusing initiatives on the individual topics they cover can help build support for the work of our institutions across governments, among politicians. We talked with Maia Simonishvili, from the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, to […]

The 10-Minute Library Advocate #43: Tell a Friend to Tell a Friend

Advocacy is about being convincing. As mentioned a few times in our series (exercises 14 and 36), it can be more powerful when your message comes from someone other than you. You can try to get a celebrity to speak on your behalf. But you don’t have to focus on public figures. Your own visitors […]

An Internet of Trust vs an Internet of Confidence

While the optimism and ambition that helped create the internet are still plentiful, recent years have seen a rise in the feeling that it has brought both good and bad. Fortunately, and despite dramatic headlines in newspapers and speeches by politicians, it seems that for now it is realism rather than fear that is taking […]

What’s on in copyright?

After our blog post Copyright for Libraries in 2018, we have engaged with the CLM network to keep up the effort of spotting copyright changes around the world. Here’s an update at the start of the second half of the year: The Marrakesh Treaty Recent Marrakesh Treaty ratification/accession United States, Ghana, Afghanistan, Dominican Republic, Jordan, […]

Alternative Facts and Fake News – Verifiability in the Information Society

This week sees the continuation of Wikipedia’s #1lib1ref (One Librarian, One Reference) campaign (highlights from the first week here!). The thematic thread of this week’s activities is fake news, an expression that has been at the tip of people’s tongues lately, along with “alternative facts”. This blog explores the library take on this. The relationship […]

Friends or Foes? Copyright and Free Speech

Copyright is regularly held up in public debates as both a barrier to, and a pre-condition of free speech. Given the emotive power of human rights arguments, as well as how readily they are used, it is worth exploring these claims. The answer, to both, is ‘not necessarily’. Foe? Taking the Universal Declaration of […]

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