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The copy/south dossier : issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global south
Story, Alan
Darch, Colin
Halbert, Debora
Mannan, Adam
Ngenda, Akalemwa
Busaniche, Beatriz
Nicholson, Denise
Heinz, Federico
De Beer, Jennifer A.
Mugambi, Norah
Smiers, Joost
Torres-Reyes, José Antonio
Triana Cordoví, Juan Publio
Liang, Lawrence
Stephan, Maud
Verzola, Roberto
Lemos, Ronaldo
Jha, Shishir Kumar
Muela-Meza, Zapopan Martín
Pereira de Souza, Carlos Affonso
Ndiaye, Papa Toumané
Yar, Majid
Hackett, Teresa
ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
B. Information use and sociology of information
The aim of the dossier is to open up debate on the real impact of copyright laws affecting the people of the more than 150 developing countries in the Global South, many of whom have never read a book, have no access to the Internet and are facing an indeterminate future. The dossier highlights issues that are not only unique to the Global South, but also focuses on those issues that affect both sides of the North - South divide. This dossier is addressed to the general public, researchers, educators, librarians, activists, and organizations concerned about access to knowledge who want to learn more about the global role of copyright and, in particular, copyright's largely negative role in developing countries of the global South. In more than 50 articles totalling 215 pages, we, in the Copy/South Research Group, who have researched and debated these issues over the past 12 months, have tried to critically analyse and assess a wide range of copyright-related issues that impact on the daily lives (and future lives) of those who live in the global South.
Copy/South Research Group
Story, Alan
Darch, Colin
Halbert, Debora
2006
Book
NonPeerReviewed
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Story, Alan and Darch, Colin and Halbert, Debora and Mannan, Adam and Ngenda, Akalemwa and Busaniche, Beatriz and Nicholson, Denise and Heinz, Federico and De Beer, Jennifer A. and Mugambi, Norah and Smiers, Joost and Torres-Reyes, José Antonio and Triana Cordoví, Juan Publio and Liang, Lawrence and Stephan, Maud and Verzola, Roberto and Lemos, Ronaldo and Jha, Shishir Kumar and Muela-Meza, Zapopan Martín and Pereira de Souza, Carlos Affonso and Ndiaye, Papa Toumané and Yar, Majid and Hackett, Teresa . The copy/south dossier : issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global south., 2006 Copy/South Research Group. [Book]
oai:eprints.rclis.org:8023
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University of Zambia Library as the National Reference Library of Zambia
Lungu, Charles B. M.
FA. Co-operation.
DF. Government libraries.
F. Management.
DB. National libraries.
BF. Information policy
Gives a historical outline of attempts for developing National Library in Zambia from the pre independence period when it was Northern Rhodesia. The study observes that no institution in the county could fulfill the responsibilities of national library even though governments built up huge collections. University of Zambia, National Council for Scientific Research, National Archives, etc are some organizations that merged large collections to form their libraries. Of this University of Zambia Library is later designated as National Reference Collection. So what has emerged in post independence Zambia is a proliferation of institutions performing selected functions of National Library. The study advocates a coordination of all these institutions to form an integrated national library system with a legal base. Observes that with the unique resources under its control University of Zambia Library is the apt institution to coordinate National Library System of the county. The need for Library Legislation in Zambia and library development plan for the country is discussed in detail.
New Delhi, Ess Ess Publications
Raman Nair, R.
1991
Book chapter
NonPeerReviewed
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Lungu, Charles B. M. . University of Zambia Library as the National Reference Library of Zambia., 1991 In: Academic Library Development. New Delhi, Ess Ess Publications, pp. 1-10. [Book chapter]
oai:eprints.rclis.org:9579
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Information and communication technologies: opportunities and challenges for national and university libraries in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa
Chisenga, Justin
DD. Academic libraries.
L. Information technology and library technology
LQ. Library automation systems.
DB. National libraries.
Organizations, including governments, in the world today are taking advantage of the many opportunities provided by modern Information and communication technologies (ICTs). To libraries, ICTs present an opportunity to provide value-added information services and access to a wide variety of digital-based information resources to their clients. Further, libraries are also using modern ICTs to automate their core functions, implement efficient and effective library cooperation and resource sharing networks, implement management information systems, develop institutional repositories of digital local content, and digital libraries; and initiate ICT-based capacity building programmes for library staff and information literacy programmes for library users. However, for most libraries in sub-Saharan Africa, including the SCANUL-ECS region, use of ICTs is largely restricted to traditional library automation, i.e. replacing manual operations by computerised methods. Innovative use of information and communication technologies in libraries is not widespread and it is made difficult, if not impossible, by several challenges or constraints, including lack of funds to sustain the ICT infrastructure, inability by librarians/libraries to keep up with the pace of developments in ICTs, inadequate ICT facilities in the libraries, lack of staff with appropriate skills to manage ICTs both at the strategic and operational levels, absence of institutional policies and strategies to support and guide the use of ICTs, and lack of adequate knowledge and skills to manage digital information resources and to deal with issues relating to copyright intellectual property rights in a digital information environment.
2006
Conference paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Chisenga, Justin Information and communication technologies: opportunities and challenges for national and university libraries in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa., 2006 . In Standing Conference of African National and University Libraries of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), 9 – 10 July 2006. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]
oai:eprints.rclis.org:11451
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El dossier copia/sur: problemas económicos, políticos, e ideológicos del copyright (derecho de autor) en el sur global
Story, Alan
Darch, Colin
Halbert, Debora
Mannan, Adam
Ngenda, Akalemwa
Busaniche, Beatriz
Nicholson, Denise
Heinz, Federico
De Beer, Jennifer A.
Mugambi, Norah
Smiers, Joost
Torres-Reyes, José Antonio
Triana Cordoví, Juan Publio
Liang, Lawrence
Stephan, Maud
Verzola, Roberto
Lemos, Ronaldo
Jha, Shishir Kumar
Muela-Meza, Zapopan Martín
Pereira de Souza, Carlos Affonso
Ndiaye, Papa Toumané
Yar, Majid
Hackett, Teresa
La-Rosa, Jumersi
Research Group, Copy/South
ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft, open access.
B. Information use and sociology of information
In 2005, a group of scholars and activists, mostly from the global South, created the Copy/South Research Group to analyse, criticise, and confront the oppressive nature of current global copyright regimes, such as those
defended by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and similar ones around the globe. In May 2006, 22 of us, including 15 people from the global South, published THE COPY/SOUTH DOSSIER: Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South.
The aim of the Dossier was to open up a critical and radical debate on the real impact of copyright laws and how they affect the daily lives of people living in more than 150 developing countries of the global South. We also highlighted issues that are not unique to the Global South, but also affect both sides of the North-South divide. This publication of more than 50 articles was addressed to researchers, educators, librarians, musicians, activists, organizations concerned about access to knowledge, and all of those who want to learn more about the oppressive global role of copyright laws and, in particular, their largely negative role in the developing countries of the global South.
Given the democratic objectives of the Copy/South Research Group, the Dossier was not restricted by copyright. Therefore, it has been accessed openly and freely in both electronic and paper formats by thousands of readers from around the world in English. But English is not spoken by all citizens in the global South. With this in mind, the entire 200-page Dossier was translated into Spanish in late 2007 by an enthusiastic team of voluntary translators from Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela.
As for this Spanish version, made with the support of the Intellectual Property Automous Service (SAPI), from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, we must acknowledge the prior SAPI's General Director Eduardo Samán for promoting the making of this translation. Besides the general revision of Gerardo Cárdenas and his labor as main translator, some other volunteers translated or revised important sections of the Spanish edition: María Jesús
Morillo (Spain), Oscar Pérez Peña and Gilda Gil (Cuba), Edgardo Civallero (Argentina) and Rafael Carreño (Venezuela), who coordinated the process of translation in 2007. Also it is worth to mention the additional colaboration of Ana Lía López (Bolivia), Richard Castro, Rafael Bellota and Carmen Chirinos (Venezuela), Zapopan Muela and Gonzalo Lara (Mexico), and Lilian Álvarez (Cuba).
But what is still more extraordinary about this Spanish translation is that it was completely coordinated and edited by the Servicio Autonomo de la Propiedad Intelectual (SAPI) of the democratic government of the Venezuelan Bolivarian Republic. The Dossier provides “useful material to introduce this topic to teachers and students” and does a good job of “summarizing a complex and conflicting situation” for developing countries, Jumersi La Rosa, SAPI’s new director, said last week in announcing the release of the Spanish edition. She has written a special
new introduction for the Spanish-language edition.
The Copy South Research Group is very pleased that the radical message of resistance found in the Dossier can now be read by thousands of Spanish-language speakers who are questioning the current copyright regime and who hopefully will be ignited by the ideas in the Dossier to take up
the fight against oppressive regimes based on copyright.
You can get a copy of the Dossier in Spanish and English by downloading it, free of charge, at http://www.copysouth.org . We also still have a limited number of printed and bound copies of the English-language version of the Dossier. If you would to be mailed a copy of the English-language version, which contains eight posters, send us an e-mail (contact@copysouth.org) and include your full postal details. COPY/SOUTH RESEARCH GROUP, 28 April 2008.
Copy/South Research Group
Halbert, Debora
Carreño, Rafael
Servicio Autónomo de la Propiedad Intellectual, República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Story, Alan
Darch, Colin
2008
Book
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Story, Alan and Darch, Colin and Halbert, Debora and Mannan, Adam and Ngenda, Akalemwa and Busaniche, Beatriz and Nicholson, Denise and Heinz, Federico and De Beer, Jennifer A. and Mugambi, Norah and Smiers, Joost and Torres-Reyes, José Antonio and Triana Cordoví, Juan Publio and Liang, Lawrence and Stephan, Maud and Verzola, Roberto and Lemos, Ronaldo and Jha, Shishir Kumar and Muela-Meza, Zapopan Martín and Pereira de Souza, Carlos Affonso and Ndiaye, Papa Toumané and Yar, Majid and Hackett, Teresa and La-Rosa, Jumersi and Research Group, Copy/South . El dossier copia/sur: problemas económicos, políticos, e ideológicos del copyright (derecho de autor) en el sur global., 2008 Copy/South Research Group. [Book]
oai:eprints.rclis.org:18920
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Social media and professional networking: a case of information professionals in the SCECSAL region
Chisenga, Justin
Chande-Mallya, Rehema
GZ. None of these, but in this section.
The purpose of the study was to establish the extent to which library and information professionals in the Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL) region are using social media applications for professional networking. The findings show that although the professionals are adopting social media applications, its use is more for social networking than professional networking purposes. Among those using the applications for professional networking, Social Networking Services (i.e. Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and MySpace) are their first choice applications; with Facebook being the most popular. They study also revealed that most of the professionals had taught themselves how to use social media. The major challenge faced in the use of social media was the lack of time in the effective use of the applications. The paper recommends that to enhance the use of social media for professional networking, social media must be integrated into individual networking activities and that library and information professionals and associations in the region should embrace social media applications.
Kenya Library Association
Omondi, Byroenne
Onyango, Christine
2012-05
Conference paper
PeerReviewed
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Chisenga, Justin and Chande-Mallya, Rehema Social media and professional networking: a case of information professionals in the SCECSAL region., 2012 . In XXth Standing Conference of Eastern, Cemtral and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL), Nairobi, Kenya, 4-8 June 2012. [Conference paper]