Library Juice 1:2 - January 28, 1998
This is LIBRARY JUICE No. 2 It will be published weekly. If you missed number 1 and would like to see it, let me know. mailto:rlitwin[at]earthlink.net Send me your suggestions & items for inclusion. Contents: 1. Current Outline of LC Classification 2. On Anarchist Librarian's website - Anarchy 'n' Kidz 3. STREET LIBRARIAN - Chris Dodge's new web page 4. Orange County Register Profiles Librarian Activist Daniel Tsang 5. frAme - A Journal of Culture & Technology 6. Corporate Takeover of Homeless Newspaper 7. Copyright Tutorial that Happens to be Online 8. Call for papers - Legal Reference Services Quarterly 9. Call for Papers: Rhetorics and Politics of the Information Society _______________________________________________________________ 1. Current Outline of LC Classification Outline of the Library of Congress Classification--CPSO http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html Originally developed for the classification of materials held in the US Library of Congress, today the LCC is used to classify and arrange materials from academic libraries to virtual collections of Internet resources, such as the Scout Report Signpost. The LCC is maintained by the Cataloging Policy and Support Office of the Library of Congress. The twenty-one broad classes of LCC listed on the main page are further broken down by subclass for browsing. While not as easy to read as the tables in the "Unofficial Guide" to the Library of Congress Classification System (discussed in the September 13, 1996 Scout Report), the CPSO outline is the authoritative source for the LC Classification; it contains the latest additions and changes to the classification scheme. [AG] [from the Internic Scout Report] http://rs.internic.net/scout/report/ _____________________________________________________________________ 2. On Anarchist Librarian's website - Anarchy 'n' Kidz Food for thought for Children's Librarians - on the Anarchist Librarians page, it's "Anarchy 'n' Kidz": http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/kidz.html _____________________________________________________________________ 3. STREET LIBRARIAN - Chris Dodge's new web page Chris Dodge is editor of MSRRT Newsletter and an activist librarian who learned the ropes working with Sandy Berman (and works with him currently in the Hennepin County, MN library system). He has a new web page, STREET LIBRARIAN, at: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/7423 The subtitle is "Zines, alternative press, & other seditions stuff." It's good. It's got links to MSRRT Newsletter on the web, zines, alternative press, anarchism, radical librarians, infoshops, mail art, ethnic-related directories, and other stuff. Check it out. _____________________________________________________________________ 4. Daniel Tsang profiled in Orange County Register Chris Dodge also forwarded this mail from Daniel Tsang, another activist librarian: ============ A profile of my library and activism work following the CIA's changing its Web site on data collection on Americans (which also applies to US permanent residents) appeared in today's Orange County Register for anyone interested. The URL of the piece is: http://www.ocregister.com/news/1998/0198/012598/cia025w.shtml Daniel C. Tsang Bibliographer for Asian American Studies & Social Sciences (Economics, Politics) Machine-Readable Data Files Librarian Lecturer, School of Social Sciences 380 Main Library University of California PO Box 19557 Irvine CA 92623-9557 USA dtsang[at]uci.edu (714) 824-4978 (714) 824-5740 fax homepage: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang add suffix for news: /netnews1.htm politics: /pol.htm economics: /econ.htm asian american studies: /aas.htm soc sci data archives: /ssda.htm public opinion: /pod.htm AWARE: awarefs/htm host, "Subversity" on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Orange County each Tuesday from 5-6 p.m.; selected shows w/ audio online: http://www.kuci.uci.edu/~dtsang/subversity N.B.: This is NOT official University of California correspondence. ____________________________________________________________ 5. frAme - A Journal of Culture & Technology frAme is a new on-line journal publishing work focussing on the core area of the inter-relation between culture and technology. frAme will feature critical essays, digital artwork/multimedia, interviews with artists/musicians/writers etc, reviews of techno-cultural artefacts, and writing relevant to this area. The journal is connected to the trAce International Online Writing Community (http://trace.ntu.ac.uk) based at The Nottingham Trent University. Submissions for the first edition are being accepted now through February 7th, 1998. All submissions must be previously unpublished and a payment of Thirty Pounds Sterling will be made for those used. Those interested in submitting work might like to point their browsers at Freebase (http://human.ntu.ac.uk/foh/freebase/freebase.html), a former incarnation of frAme. The reason for this is that the trAce project has just been awarded a large amount of funding and is expanding and relaunching. From: simon mills <samills[at]innotts.co.uk> ____________________________________________________________________ 6. Corporate Takeover of Homeless Newspaper - - ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 21:08:30 -0800 (PST) From: Bathrobespierre <norse[at]netcom.com> Subject: San Francisco Street Sheet's Take on The Big Issue The following article will be coming out in the February issue of the San Francisco Street Sheet. Anyone who wants to reprint it has permission to do so, according to author, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness worker Paul Boden. THE BRITISH ARE COMING! Yet another aspect of homelesness has gone corporate. Street newspapers. The Big Issue, a slick, glossy paper started in England and sold by homeless people has olanded on the shores of Los Angeles. Having already spread throughout Europe, South Africa, and Australia they have turned their greedy little eyeson here. The paper calls itself The Big Issue leaving people (especially advertisers) with the impression that the big issue is homelessness. Yet homeless issues by their own admission is only aboutg 20% of the paper's content and homeless people are an even smaller percentage of the paper's multi-national staff. The vendors, who are charged per issue to sell this product, don't reap any of the economic benefits of the millions that are brought in annually through the vendor charges, advertising sales, and foundation support. Instead, the Big Issue has established their own foundation so as to dole out grants and gifts in communities (countries) where they plan to set up shop. If they have this kind of money, why can't they pay the salespeople (vendors) a living wage with benefits, etc.? You can bet their advertising staff are paid and paid well. The Big Issue is about big bucks pure and simple. Dishing out a few nickles and dimes to some homeless people doesn't change that and doesn't make them any less of a "Poverty Pimp". They are exploiting homelessness to sell their advertising and homeless people as a cheap (charged) labor source to sell their product. For The Big Issue to claim, as they do, that they lift people out of poverty through the sales of their paper is nothing short of bullshit. No street newspaper can claim the vendors leave poverty with the money they get from selling the paper. That kind of life is right up there with "the wealthy panhandler" and "the Cadillac-driving AFDC recipient". The inevitable consequence of this corporate move is the licensing of the sale of homeless street papers and thus less opportunity for homeless people to vend them. Street papers in their simplicity benefit everyone involved. The organization that publishes them gets to present to the general public homeless and poverty issues froma perspective/depth that will never be in the mainstream press or even the alternative press. Homeless and poor people have an opportunity to positively express themselves through writing, artwork and poetry and to see their works and feeling out int he community, while at the same time others are able to panhandle with their dignity intact. The general public gets the best benefit of all: They get to learn about an issue that people seem to universally agree is tearing this country apart. And they get to learn about it without the barrage of commercialism and sensationalizing so common in the mainstream media today. "The Big Issue" corporate approach to this important social contract severely threatens to kill it. Please don't buy one and please write them at: The Big Issue, Fleet House, 57-61 Clarkenwell Road, Farringdon, London EC1 M5NP or e-mail them at london[at]bigissue.co.uk and tell them that their exploitation of poor people will never sell here. ___________________________________________________________________ 7. Copyright Tutorial that Happens to be Online From: Judy Homer <jhomer[at]iupui.edu> Subject: Online Copyright Tutorial ***************************************************** Educators! Researchers! Librarians! Authors! Artists! Graphic Designers! Webmasters! ***************************************************** WHICH OF THESE STATEMENTS DO YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUE? * The publisher owns the copyright when you write an article for publication. * A published work is in the public domain if it has no copyright notice. * If you write a report for someone, that person owns the copyright. * If you are using materials for educational purposes on your website, it is fair use. * The amount of photocopying that you can do for your class is set by guidelines. ARE YOU SURE? The answers may surprise you! And they will not necessarily disappoint you! ********** Here is an opportunity for easy, honest learning: INDIANA UNIVERSITY ONLINE COPYRIGHT TUTORIAL A series of short, readable, and helpful (we hope) electronic messages will be provided via listserv from February 9 through the end of Spring Semester 1998. To subscribe, simply send e-mail to listserv[at]iupui.edu. Put nothing in the subject line. In the message body type: sub Copyright-Online-L yourname. Do not use a signature block. For additional details, visit http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo/Online_Tutorial.html For more information about the CMC, visit http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo _____________________________________________________________________ 8. Call for papers - Legal Reference Services Quarterly ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 08:59:47 -0800 (PST) From: Samuel Trosow <strosow[at]wahoo.sjsu.edu> To: rlitwin[at]wahoo.sjsu.edu Subject: Call for papers (Legal Reference Services Quarterly) I know from teaching 200 that there are many students in the program who are quite capable of writing an article for this journal. Yet I think that students are often intimidated when they see a call for papers for a professional journal. So please try to encourage people to do this. People can work in groups if they like and submit joint articles. Maybe I could even interest you in submitting an idea for an article. Sam _____________________ CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Legal Reference Services Quarterly A special topic issue of Legal Reference Services Quarterly (LRSQ) will be published in the Fall of 1998 on the "Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape." The guest editor for this special issue will be Samuel E. Trosow of the Boalt Hall Law Library at the University of California at Berkeley. "The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape" The past few years have seen great changes in the legal publishing industry and in the manner in which legal information is produced, stored, disseminated and used. A new landscape of legal information has emerged along with the convergence of two factors: - the trend towards concentration in the legal publishing industry; and - an information environment increasingly characterized by electronic forms of publishing and communications. What is the relationship between these factors? While the lower entry costs into electronic publishing might be expected to decrease concentration, the opposite seems to be occurring. What accounts for this paradox? How should librarians and other information professionals best comprehend, cope with and even try to influence the factors which comprise the new legal information landscape? Papers addressing these and related issues are sought. Specific broad topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - The political economy of information; - Concentration and ownership trends in the information/ publishing industry; - Licensing and intellectual property issues; - Electronic publishing / scholarly communication; - Access to and provision of government information; - Cost studies/ budget issues; - Impacts on reference services. Potential authors are encouraged to submit a short abstract or proposal by February 15, 1998. Inquiries and submissions should be addressed to: Samuel E. Trosow Boalt Hall Law Library University of California Berkeley, CA 90020 Phone: (800) 832-4586 strosow[at]library.berkeley.edu ____________________________________________________________________ 9. Call for Papers: Rhetorics and Politics of the Information Society Please forward this message to others who are interested on the topic. World wide web version of this message can be found from http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/hallinto/cocta/1998cfp1.htm ************************************************************ International Social Science Council, Standing Committee on Conceptual and Terminolocical Analysis (ISSC/COCTA) ------------------------------------------------------------ First call for papers RHETORICS AND POLITICS OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: Behind the Theories, Visions, Texts, and Programs ---------------------------------------------------------- Information Society is one of the most popular catch words of our time. For many of us Information Society is the slogan for technological paradise, the Brave New World of the turn of the Century. Thus Information Society is the promise, the salvation and the ultimate solution for many of our current economic, social and political problems: Information Society is the Way out of the Darkness into the Light. International Social Science Council, Standing Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (ISSC/COCTA) is organizing a set of sessions on the topic of RHETORICS AND POLITICS OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY. Papers which take a deeper look to and beyond this topic are invited to these sessions. The expression "Rhetorics and Politics" should be understood broadly, to cover a wide variety of approaches analysing * basic underlying assumptions, motives, strategies and goals * cognitive categories, concepts and conceptualizations * argumentative structures and reasoning * discoursive styles, patterns and contexts of the recent texts, visions and programs for and against Information Society, or theories about Information Society. The main target is to scrutinize how the topic "information society" is socially constructed or conceptualised and how these conceptualizations are related to different theoretical, practical or political contexts. The organizers are planning to compile a book based on a selection of papers presented at these sessions. During 1998 sessions are organized at the occasion of two international conferences. The first part of these sessions will be organized at conference "Crossroads in Cultural Studies: 2nd International Conference", to be held at Tampere, Finland, June 28th - July 1st, 1998. For general information on this conference see http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sosio/culture/index.html The second part of the sessions will be organized at the International Sociological Association's 14th World Congress of Sociology, to be held at Montreal, Canada, July 26th - August 1st, 1998. The ISA sessions (2 sessions) will be part of the program of the Research Committee 35, Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (ISA/COCTA). For more information concerning the ISA World Congress see http://www.BCOC.UMontreal.CA/socio98/ or http://www.ucm.es/OTROS/isa/cong.htm PARTICIPATION Persons interested in participating these sessions should offer their papers, including a provisional title and short abstract (about 150 words), to the gonvenor (address below) as soon as possible. More information on the sessions, including final deadlines and the provisional programs will be emailed or sent to the participants and to the persons expressing their interest to participate. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For further information, please contact Matti Mälkiä University of Tampere Department of Administrative Science P.O. Box 607 FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland Tel. +358-40-5042498 (cellular); +358-3-2156362 (office) Fax: +358-3-215 6020 Email: malkia[at]uta.fi WWW-Information page: http://www.uta.fi/~malkia Additional information on International Social Science Council and its Standing Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (ISSC/COCTA) can be found from: http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/hallinto/issc.htm/ ********************************************************************** Matti Malkia Matti Mälkiä University of Tampere Tampereen yliopisto Dept of Administrative Science Hallintotieteen laitos P.O. Box 607 PL 607 FIN-33101 TAMPERE 33101 TAMPERE Finland ********************************************************************** Email Internet: malkia[at]uta.fi ********************************************************************** Fax +358-3-215-6020 Tel. +358-3-215-6362 (office) Telex 22263 tayk sf Tel. +358-40-504-2498 (mobile phone) ********************************************************************** WWW information page: http://www.uta.fi/~malkia/ ____________________________________________________________________ Library Juice #2 Library Juice (LJ) is a Newsletter published weekly by Rory Litwin. Send me me your suggestions & items for inclusion. Pass it on to a friend. -- __________________________________________________________________ Rory Litwin mailto:rlitwin[at]earthlink.net PO Box 720511 phone: (408) 286-6409 San Jose, CA 95172 http://home.earthlink.net/~rlitwin __________________________________________________________________
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