Archive for the ‘commons’ Category

“Everybody wants to save the library in Darby, PA.” [No.12.1.2009. 153.

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Darby officials, facing the possible closing of the historic library founded in 1743, say they are committed to keeping it open, even if taxes go up.

“The residents said that if we had to raise taxes, they would appreciate that we do,” Mayor Helen Thomas said. “Everybody wants to save the library.”

Still, in a community where industry crumbled long ago, officials aren’t sure how they’ll find the money. Library director Susan Borders said she hoped the township would fund the library with $50,000, about $5 per person, almost double the $2.70 per person it receives now through a dedicated real estate tax.

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The Commons and Libraries. No. 8.4.2008. 134.

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Some recent inclusions relating to libraries in the Digital Library of the Commons:
Kranich, Nancy, and Jorge R. Schement. 2008. “Information Commons.” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 42:547-592.

Understanding Knowledge as a Commons; edited by C. Hess and E. Ostrom. Cambridge: MIT Press

Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented access to information through the Internet but at the same time is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, and lack of preservation. Looking at knowledge as a commons–as a shared resource–allows us to understand both its limitless possibilities and what threatens it. In null, experts from a range of disciplines discuss the knowledge commons in the digital era–how to conceptualize it, protect it, and build it.

Morgan, George. 2006. “Aboriginal Politics, Self-Determination and the Rhetoric of Community.” Critical Studies 28:367-385.

Garwood-Houng, Alana. 2005. “Protocols: Meeting the Challenges of Indigenous Information Needs.” Australian Academic and Research Libraries. 36(2):149-158.

Information and Knowledge Commons:
Includes: anticommons, copyright, indigenous, local, scientific knowledge issues, intellectual property rights, the Internet, libraries, patents, virtual commons, etc.

The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. This site contains an author-submission portal; an archive of full-text articles, papers, and dissertations; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.

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Mission statement

The International Journal of the Commons (IJC) is a new journal set-up by the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). As an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal, the IJC is dedicated to furthering our understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.

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