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Archive for February, 2008


Gilberto Gil on Rights and digital culture

Thanks to a colleage at Culture Libre for letting me know about a free conference in Montréal by Brazil’s culture minister, and musician, Gilberto Gil. The conference, entitled Digital Culture: Re-inventing America’s New World Dream, will:

explore innovative policies and practices at the cutting edge of issues like copyright, digital culture and Internet rights. (…) Gil recently hosted the United Nations Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro (November 2007) where he called for the establishment of an international Internet Bill of Rights. ‘As a creator of music, he is widely known as a central player in the search for more flexible forms of distributing artistic works, Internet rights, free and open source software, and digital culture,’ (…)

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Friday, 15 February, at 6 p.m. at the Hotel Omni Mt-Royal (map).

Librarian - Best Career 2008

U.S News and World Report just released its annual list of 31 careers with bright futures (i.e. that offer strong outlooks and high job satisfaction.) Librarians are listed as being part of that group. According to the description:

It’s an underrated career. Most librarians love helping patrons dig up information and, in the process, learning new things. Librarians may also go on shopping sprees, deciding which books and online resources to buy. They even get to put on performances, like children’s puppet shows, and run other programs, like book discussion groups for elders..

Librarians are actually on the list twice, as one of the other good jobs included on the list is Usability/User experience specialists (one of the training backgrounds they suggest for this job is library science).

- DD

Librarians, Open Access, and Student Engagement

Library Journal interviews student advocate (and new contributor to Open Access News) Gavin Baker about SPARC’s student engagement Right to Research campaign.

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