Highs and Lows: An Examination of Academic Librarians’ Collective Agreements.

The following study is a textual analysis of collective agreements from Canadian Universities that include provisions for librarians. There has for many years been a focus on the “crisis in librarianship.” The hope with this research is to celebrate the victories and highlight how collective agreements are foundations upon which librarians can build. The collective agreements act as signposts of the gains that librarians have made over the years in negotiations with administration and as advocates on campuses across the country. This project documents the advances librarians have made and makes recommendations for areas where further activism may be needed. The research focusses on how Academic Librarian positions are described and codified in University collective agreements in Canada. What provisions are there in collective agreements to protect Academic Librarians\u27 from de‐professionalization, protect their academic freedom, control their workload, ensure job security and/or protect against contracting out? Collective agreements will be compared for their similarities and the gaps that may exist

The Author as Agent of Information Policy: the Relationship between Economic and Moral Rights in Copyright

A historical and theoretical analysis of the copyright environment demonstrates that both the economic rights associated with copyright and the moral rights often associated with copyright perform social functions. The latter have not been as universally embraced or adopted as the former. The lack of enthusiasm for moral rights is argued to be because the social utility of this aspect of the copyright regime has gone largely unrecognised. In fact, moral rights ensure that the information needs of the public are being met because they enhance the ability to assess the authority and reliability of information. While historically this has not been as important as enhancing the supply of information, a function performed by the economic rights of copyright, in the context of the new information environment, the role played by moral rights is becoming increasingly important. Our thesis also defines the appropriate scope of moral rights protection in copyright

The Information Context of Moral Rights under the Copyright Regime

Moral rights have not been so uniformly or widely adopted as economic copyrights for authors, perhaps because the actual and potential value of moral rights in ensuring information needs are met has gone unrecognized. The authors demonstrate that moral rights protection can enhance authority control in the new information environment

Taming the Mob: the Early Public Library and the Creation of Good Citizens

The article examines the principles upon which the public library operated in the 19th and early 20th Century. Gilles Deleuze’s philosophic work on the disciplinary and control societies is used as a theoretical framework to highlight the forms of governance that have been used in the last couple centuries. A discourse analysis is conducted of sample articles from the first forty years of the Library Journal. The article documents how librarians played a role in normalizing patron behaviour by associating the concept of the good citizen with a series of practices, including reading, abstention from the consumption of alcohol, homogeneity, order, acceptance of class status, and self-reliance.Cet article examine les principes sociopolitiques sur lesquels la bibliothèque publique a fonctionné aux 19e et au début 20e siècles. Les travaux philosophiques de Gilles Deleuze sur la discipline et les sociétés de contrôle est utilisé comme cadre théorique pour mettre en évidence les formes de gouvernance qui ont été utilisés au cours des deux derniers siècles. Une analyse du discours est réalisée sur un échantillon d'articles tirés des 40 premières années du Library Journal. Cet article documente le rôle que les bibliothécaires ont joué dans la normalisation du comportement des usagers en associant le concept du bon citoyen avec une série de pratiques, y compris la lecture, l'abstention de l'alcool, l'ordre, l'acceptation du statut de classe et l'autonomie

Taming the Mob: the Early Public Library and the Creation of Good Citizens

The article examines the principles upon which the public library operated in the 19th and early 20th Century. Gilles Deleuze’s philosophic work on the disciplinary and control societies is used as a theoretical framework to highlight the forms of governance that have been used in the last couple centuries. A discourse analysis is conducted of sample articles from the first forty years of the Library Journal. The article documents how librarians played a role in normalizing patron behaviour by associating the concept of the good citizen with a series of practices, including reading, abstention from the consumption of alcohol, homogeneity, order, acceptance of class status, and self-reliance

The Information Context of Moral Rights under the Copyright Regime

Moral rights have not been so uniformly or widely adopted as economic copyrights for authors, perhaps because the actual and potential value of moral rights in ensuring information needs are met has gone unrecognized. The authors demonstrate that moral rights protection can enhance authority control in the new information environment

The Author as Agent of Information Policy: the Relationship between Economic and Moral Rights in Copyright

A historical and theoretical analysis of the copyright environment demonstrates that both the economic rights associated with copyright and the moral rights often associated with copyright perform social functions. The latter have not been as universally embraced or adopted as the former. The lack of enthusiasm for moral rights is argued to be because the social utility of this aspect of the copyright regime has gone largely unrecognised. In fact, moral rights ensure that the information needs of the public are being met because they enhance the ability to assess the authority and reliability of information. While historically this has not been as important as enhancing the supply of information, a function performed by the economic rights of copyright, in the context of the new information environment, the role played by moral rights is becoming increasingly important. Our thesis also defines the appropriate scope of moral rights protection in copyright