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Information Policies and Strategies

By: Ian Cornelius

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Paperback | 23 March 2010

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All librarians and libraries have information policies, and so do most people. The big issues, like censorship, intellectual property, freedom of information, privacy and data protection, crowd our minds, but the process of decision making is the same at every level and in every context, whether we are concerned with government secrets, advertising standards or our childrenâs reading and viewing habits.
This book examines the issues from varying standpoints, including the human rights approach, the commercial approach, and the states-interest approach. These are all placed within the context of arguments about the public sphere. The working librarian has to be in a position to justify every stock purchase and information access decision, and in the strategies they follow to legitimate the library. The discussion of issues in this book will give librarians the context and arguments they need to identify and apply appropriate information policies and strategies.
The key areas covered are:

contexts for information policy
globalization and information societies
information rights and information policy
information policy sectors.

Readership: This book is essential reading for library students, researchers and policy makers as well as for all LIS practitioners wishing to widen their awareness of the important issues surrounding information policy.

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"I would recommend the book to most of the academic libraries as long as they have any programme in political, social science or humanities."

-- Information Research

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Non-Fiction Library & Info Sciences Library & Information Services Acquisitions & Collection Development

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
How governments control information policies	p. 4
Other bodies that generate and control information	p. 8
Information policy as about any means by which the generation, distribution, and use of information is regulated	p. 9
What non-governmental agencies do within the realm of Information policy	p. 10
Information policy must provide for different sorts of needs	p. 11
Information policy, public policy and other disciplines	p. 12
Conclusion	p. 16
Contexts for information policy	p. 19
Understanding the international contexts	p. 21
Globalization and technology	p. 24
Globalization and information societies	p. 27
Information societies and information policy	p. 29
The information society: alternative views	p. 37
Information policy and the public sphere	p. 43
The idea of a public sphere	p. 44
The structure of the public sphere	p. 48
The character of the public sphere	p. 52
Epilogue to Chapter 3	p. 59
Information rights and information policy	p. 63
The rights of government	p. 66
The interests of business	p. 68
Common good	p. 70
Ann Wells Branscomb's information rights	p. 72
Internationally recognized rights	p. 78
Information policy sectors	p. 83
Censorship, freedom of speech and freedom of expression	p. 87
Powers of intervention	p. 91
Other forms of censorship	p. 97
The history of censoring	p. 99
Making arguments for free speech	p. 101
Arguments for protecting speech	p. 103
Cohen's analysis of freedom of speech	p. 104
Implications of Cohen's strategy	p. 117
Structural strengths	p. 121
Privacy and data protection	p. 125
The need for legislation	p. 128
Confidentiality	p. 130
Problems of power	p. 132
General questions	p. 134
Putting principles into effect	p. 138
Freedom of information	p. 143
Confronting governments	p. 145
Building commitment	p. 147
Constructing the case	p. 148
Questions of model building	p. 151
Competing principles and pressures	p. 153
Intellectual property	p. 157
The market reward system	p. 160
Recognized types of intellectual property	p. 161
Policy analysis questions	p. 164
Rules and practices	p. 167
Copies and originals	p. 169
Policy responses	p. 171
Conclusion	p. 175
Final considerations	p. 177
Information policies in non-democratic societies	p. 178
Non-state information policy	p. 180
Obligations	p. 181
Policy formation	p. 183
Outcomes: desires, intentions and objectives	p. 189
Do we really need information policies?	p. 195
References and reading list	p. 197
Index	p. 199
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