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FLIF Freedom to Read Week at University of Alberta!

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The Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom are an amazing student group of volunteers at the University of Alberta. They hold events throughout the year in Edmonton promoting intellectual freedom within library and information services. They also arrange community events to help raise awareness about intellectual freedom and social responsibility.

Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom: Welcome to Freedom to Read Week!.

Dr. Toni Samek teaches courses on special populations and intellectual freedom & social responsibility at The University of Alberta’s School of Library and Information Studies. She just won a National Teaching Fellowship from 3M and the courses she teaches are well regarded and transformative. I would encourage students interested in these topics within an MLIS program to consider the University of Alberta.

UPDATE: GTA Technology Topics, Tips & Tricks: U.S. SOPA & Protect IP Acts – Censorship of the Internet

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Note: This is an update to an earlier post that can be found here.
 
If you hadn’t heard already, tomorrow Wikipedia (as well as Reddit and other websites) will be going “black” to protest the SOPA and PIPA acts. These websites will be effectively be taken offline. See more about this: English Wikipedia Anti-SOPA Blackout
 
Google will also be protesting SOPA tomorrow on its home page. More information here. I’m very curious to see if they will change their logo!
 
From the ALA Washington Office:  PIPA, SOPA and OPEN Act Quick Reference Guide
 
Also, the Obama Administration has come out in a recent announcement against SOPA.
 
Interesting to note – you may not had heard about SOPA and PIPA in US mainstream media or on the US broadcast networks, as many of these organizations are in support of these acts. For a review, please see the infographic below.
 
Stay informed!
 

GTA Technology Topics, Tips & Tricks: U.S. SOPA & Protect IP Acts – Censorship of the Internet

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I’ve rebranded this email series to include “Topics”, to be more inclusive of the scope of technology information I am discussing.
 
Did you know a group of organizations have declared today, November 16, 2011, as American Censorship Day?
 
For those of you interested in censorship and copyright infringement you may want to follow what is going on in the United States with the SOPA Act (Stop Online Piracy Act). The infographic below explains it better than I could. Also this video on the Protect IP Act.
 
 

SOPA blog post from Gizmodo

I grabbed this SOPA infographic from a WebProNews post.