Archive for 'human rights'
Rima Kupryte, Dorothy Eneya, eIFL, and Ada Lovelace Day
To celebrate the first (hopefully annual?) Ada Lovelace Day, I’d like to highlight the work of two remarkable women who work with an organization called Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL), which exists to enable and sustain access to knowledge by library users in developing and transitional countries. The organization does this by helping member [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2009 under eIFL-FOSS, human rights, libraries.
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Ada Lovelace Day
I just heard about Ada Lovelace Day and I think it’s a super idea.
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. [...] We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Entrepreneurs, innovators, sysadmins, programmers, designers, games developers, hardware experts, tech journalists, tech [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2009 under code4lib, human rights, libraries, sexism.
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Don’t forget about your library for out-of-print books!
The always excellent boingboing.net today again mentions a book I am quite fond of. Glorifying Terrorism is a book of short stories originally written to protest the 2006 UK Terrorism Act, a law which made it illegal to produce works of art or literature that “glorify terrorism.” As many were quick to observe, this makes [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2007 under human rights, libraries.
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“just domestic violence”: some thoughts on the VA Tech massacre
By now you’ve probably heard about the shootings at Virginia Tech. Like everyone else, I am horrified. The University of Virginia is deep in mourning for the people who were killed at our sister school. Almost everyone here has people they care about at VT. I send my heartfelt condolences to everyone who lost a [...]
Posted: April 17th, 2007 under human rights.
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Libraries tazering students, and Bess blocks a very broad array of lawful information
I was horrified by several library stories on boingboing today. The worst one is that security guards at UCLA’s Powell Library tazered a student for not showing a photo ID.
By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at [...]
Posted: November 17th, 2006 under human rights, libraries.
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