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From the informative information contained in The Political Economy
of Legal Information: The New Landscape, you will discover how you,
as a librarian or other information professional, can comprehend,
cope with, and even try to influence the factors which comprise the
new legal information landscape. You will discover the great
changes in the legal publishing industry that have occurred within
the last few years and the new ways in which legal information is
produced, stored, disseminated, and used. The Political Economy of
Legal Information will provide you with valuable tips to help you
make sense of this new landscape so your library can reap the
benefits of this new age. This informative book provides you with a
collection of essays that describe, asses, and evaluate the
political economy of information in the changing realm of legal
publishing to keep you and your library on top of this dynamic
situation. Through The Political Economy of Legal Information, you
will find valuable insight into how you can make adjustments to
constant technological changes by: confronting the cost efficiency
model which promises both lower prices and greater effectiveness to
help you make informed decisions about your library's technology
learning about the economic logic of copyright laws to safeguard
your library's reliance on big-name databases exploring the new
Legal Publishers'List that provides a roadmap to the mergers and
acquisitions that have characterized the publishing industry in
recent years in order to choose the best manufacturer of the legal
products in your library exploring case studies to help you
understand how educational institutions, governmental entities, and
small publishers can successfully cope with the new information
landscape and to keep you informed of all the options available to
your libraryWritten by a wide cross section of people who are
working with legal information,The Political Economy of Legal
Information provides essential information to assist you and your
library in staying informed regarding the fast-paced world of legal
publishing.
In the age of easily downloadable culture, messages about copyright
are ubiquitous. If you?re an artist, consumer, or teacher,
copyright is likely a part of your everyday life. Yet no resource
exists to explain Canadian copyright law to ordinary Canadians. In
accessible language, using examples and case studies, this book
parses the Copyright Act and explains issues pertinent to a range
of particular groups of Canadians; it also makes a case for
grassroots engagement in balanced legal reform.
"Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide" is not an alarmist call to
stop the pirating of culture, but an articulate assertion that
artists and consumers need not see each other as enemies. It should
be essential reading for all Canadians concerned by how Canadian
copyright law and policy affects them.
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endorsements of "Canadian Copyright"
In Constraining Public Libraries: The World Trade Organization's
General Agreement on Trade in Services, the authors present a
compelling argument for why the library community should be
concerned about the effect of international trade agreements on the
ability to deliver library and information services to the public.
The book begins with a rigorous yet succinct description of the
relevant provisions of the General Agreement on Trade in Services
(GATS), proceeds to discuss how it is likely to impact particular
public library services, and then discusses how the library
community could best respond to these challenges. While there
cannot be certainty when considering how GATS will ultimately
impinge upon public libraries, this book pinpoints potential
problem areas. It is a valuable tool in informing the dialogue
within public libraries on the World Trade Organization, and
providing the foundation for effective advocacy at the domestic and
international levels to ensure that public libraries continue to
play a central role in their communities for generations to come.
Those in library and information science, as well as public
administrators, educators, students, political and policy science
professionals, government officials, and trade negotiators, will
find this book to be an informative resource.
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