Information for Social Change goes all digital

Information for Social Change is now an electronic-only
publication.


Issue 17, Summer 2003, is now published and on the web at
http://libr.org/ISC/TOC.html


The issue is available as a single Word document or as
individual html
articles.


Table of Contents, No. 17, Summer 2003


Editorial.

Developing a Needs Based Library Service. John Pateman


Activist and Archivist. Martin Lowe

Globalisation, Libraries and Information. Ruth Rikowski


Library privatization: fact or fiction?. Ruth Rikowski


Still at your service? GATS, privatization and public
services in the UK.
Ruth Rikowski

Free trade with library services: no ‘all clear’ regarding
GATS. Anders
Ericon interviews Frode Bakken

Framework for the future. John Pateman

The People’s Network. John Pateman

Building Better Library Services. John Pateman

Overdue: how to create a modern public library service.
John Pateman

Here’s the editorial from this issue:

Information for Social Change is now an electronic-only
publication.


Issue 17, Summer 2003, is now published and on the web at
http://libr.org/ISC/TOC.html


The issue is available as a single Word document or as
individual html
articles.


Table of Contents, No. 17, Summer 2003


Editorial.

Developing a Needs Based Library Service. John Pateman


Activist and Archivist. Martin Lowe

Globalisation, Libraries and Information. Ruth Rikowski


Library privatization: fact or fiction?. Ruth Rikowski


Still at your service? GATS, privatization and public
services in the UK.
Ruth Rikowski

Free trade with library services: no ‘all clear’ regarding
GATS. Anders
Ericon interviews Frode Bakken

Framework for the future. John Pateman

The People’s Network. John Pateman

Building Better Library Services. John Pateman

Overdue: how to create a modern public library service.
John Pateman

Here’s the editorial from this issue:
Welcome to issue 17 of Information for Social Change. In
common with many
other LIS journals we have now become an electronic
publication. This means
that we will no longer be producing hard copies of ISC. If
you want a hard
copy go to our website at www.libr.org/ISC/ and download a
copy to print
out.


This issue is in three parts. Part one features articles
by John Pateman
(Developing a Needs Based Library Service) and Martyn Lowe
(Activism and
Archivist). These are intended to stir up interest and
debate so please
send us your views.


Part two continues our theme of discussing the impact of
globalization and
privatization on library services. Ruth Rikowski has
become our resident
expert on this subject and she has made three further
valuable
contributions to this debate in this issue :
Globalisation, libraries and
information; Library Privatisation: fact or fiction?; and
Still at your
service – GATS, privatization and public services in the
UK. We also
feature an interview by Anders Ericson with Frode Bakken,
on the subject of
Free trade with library services ? no “All clear”
regarding GATS.


Part three is a round up of recent publications which
affect public
libraries in the UK – Framework for the future; The
People’s Network;
Building Better Library Services; Overdue ? how to create
a modern public
library service. This last title, by Charles Leadbetter of
Demos, is
particularly thought provoking. Its final sentence –
“Libraries are sleep
walking to disaster; it is time they woke up” – should
give us all food for
thought.


Our next issue, due out in January 2004, will include a
report on the
Libraries in the Third World Forum which is being held
during the Culture
and Development 3rd Congress in Havana, Cuba, between 9-12
June 2003.
Participants at the Forum include ISC editor John Pateman,
who will be
taking part in a Round Table discussion on the theme of
“libraries
contribution to solidarity and social justice in a world
of neo-liberal
globalization”.


We are also exploring the possibility, with our sister
organization in the
US, the Progressive Librarians Guild, of producing a joint
issue of ISC and
PLG, possibly on the theme of how the so-called “war on
terror” is
affecting library and information services.