Free Government Information

April 3, 2013.

Librarians and information advocates Jim A. Jacobs (UCSD) and James R. Jacobs (Stanford University) talk about their organization, Free Government Information and their efforts to raise all Congressional, Executive & Judicial Branch information, publications and data, including current fee-based services, to the level of federally funded scientific information, and the publication of all government information as Open Access.

49:15 minutes.

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Alex Byrne

April 8, 2008.

Alex Byrne, University Librarian at the University of Technology, Sydney, and 2005-2007 President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), discusses intellectual freedom advocacy, libraries, internationalism, and his book: The Politics of Promoting Freedom of Information and Expression in International Librarianship, published by Scarecrow.

49:48 min.

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Emily Sheketoff

April 3, 2007

Emily Sheketoff, Associate Executive Director of the American Library Association and head of the Washington Office of the ALA, talks about the important public policy issue of Network Neutrality and the threat that AT&T, Verizon, and other corporate media giants pose to equal access to information on the Internet.

27:17 min.

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