Posted in IFC/IPC on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Check out the BCLA’s Information Policy Committee blog, where I’ll be posting occasionally on IF issues that are also information policy issues. I’ve also signed up to post about trade agreements, like TILMA and SPP.
Posted in IFC/IPC, events on November 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: The Morrissey, 1227 Granville Street
Whether you are a BCLA member or not, come out and mingle with folks from the various BCLA committees, including the Intellectual Freedom Committee. Library tech and school students are welcome. So are public, academic and special librarians. Info [...]
Posted in IFC, IFC/IPC, Word on the Street, events on October 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Heather noticed that perhaps because of the rain there were less people, but the people who did come by our booth wanted to talk a little more. Here are some of them.
First, there was Robert Chaplin. I bought two copies of his independently published book Ten Counting Cat. I love picture books that [...]
Posted in IFC, IFC/IPC, Word on the Street, events, photos on October 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in IFC, IFC/IPC, Word on the Street, events on October 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday 11 members of the Intellectual Freedom and Information Policy Committees braved the cold, wet, windy weather to entertain and educate at the Word on the Street literacy and book festival.
Everyone had their own unique way of drawing people in. Sylvia was like a carnival barker, or the guy who [...]
Posted in IFC, IFC/IPC, Word on the Street, events on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Look for our booth (with the Information Policy Committee) at Word on the Street. Spin the wheel, answer an information policy or intellectual freedom question and get some candy.
Get there early to buy a treasure hunt book bag for $18 at the information tent. We are one of the booths that is giving [...]
Posted in IFC/IPC, open access, open medicine on September 11, 2007 | No Comments »
One of my favourite sessions at the PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference was Dr. Anita Palepu speaking about the history of Open Medicine. This is a prime example where intellectual freedom and information policy issues (like open access) connect. The abstract says the session:
Presents the experience of founding a new independent open access medical journal [...]
Posted in BCLA conference, IFC/IPC, Little Sister's, events, fundraiser on August 24, 2007 | No Comments »
At the BCLA conference this April we ran a no-bake sale with the Information Policy Committee to raise awareness and money for the Little Sister’s Defense Fund. We asked conference participants to make a donation for a brochure that explained the history of the Canadian Boarder Services Agency’s ongoing seizures of books bound [...]
Posted in IFC/IPC, Word on the Street, events on August 23, 2007 | No Comments »
At our last meeting we banged out 200 buttons with slogans like I read banned books, There’s something in my library to offend everyone, and a bunch of anti-DRM slogans. Did you know that the BCLA has a button maker that you can use? Well, now you do…
We will be at Word on the Street [...]
