News

• Ricky Tomlinson – comedian and actor Campaign for Justice and E-Petition
• Information for Social Change – New Open Access Policy
• Public Libraries and Social Justice
• LWPM – Celebrating a part of the origins of ISC.
• The European Social Forum is coming to Malmö, Sweden!
• Freedom to Read Week (February 24th – March 1st 2008)
• Aerospace and Defence Librarians Group (ADLG)
• Forthcoming UK Agency Staff Bill
• 26 January – Global Day of Action of the WSF
• Toni Samek is winner of the first annual LJ Teaching Award
• Blockade of Cuban Libraries
• UK Government approves 14 firms to help the NHS
• Online Tactical Discussions
• Public Libraries in the 21st Century
• St. Athan Military Academy (Wales)
• Reed Elsevier pulls out of organising arms fairs
• 2007 CLA award for the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada
• Library able to privatize
• West Virginia Labor History Association Votes Unanimously to Support Preservation of Blair Mountain at Press Conference
• Information for Social Change Polices
• Exhibition Reviews by John Pateman
• Library of Congress to Outsource Auxiliary Cataloging Functions
• Feminist Library Under Threat Of Closure
• PAINSWICK LIBRARY CAMPAIGN
• Knowledge Management: Social, Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives Edited by Ruth Rikowski
• Occupation of Sidgwick Lecture Theatre at Cambridge University
• Two Cheers for Inclusion
• Protest against Tuition Fees and the Marketisation of Higher Education, and For a Free Education – a Student Action Week event at Cambridge University
• National Climate March Saturday 4th November 2006
• The International Convention of Local Communities against GATS
• Glenn Rikowski will be talking at the Green Party Autumn Conference at the Hove Centre, Hove Town Hall, Brighton, 21st-24th September 2006
• MARXISM AND EDUCATION: RENEWING DIALOGUES IX
• Blackboard Sues Rival Provider of Course-Management Software, Alleging Patent Infringement
• Librarians are freedom fighters, says author
• INFORMATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (ISC) Summer 2007
• UN World Press Freedom Day at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI) 03/05/06
• Reed Elsevier and the Arms Trade
• Mikael Böök and Kingsley Oghojafor at The library workshop in Bamako, Jan. 2006
• IN THE DENTIST’S CHAIR: A RESPONSE TO RICHARD HATCHER’S CRITIQUE OF HABITUATION OF THE NATION By Glenn Rikowski
• Upcoming Talks by Toni Samek, Associate Professor School of Library & Information Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta
• Upcoming Talks by Ruth Rikowski (Visiting Lecturer, London South Bank University) and Glenn Rikowski (Senior Lecturer in Education Studies and Acting Head of Education Studies in the School of Education at University College Northampton)