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= Interesting Links and Articles = Here you will find some interesting links and articles that will inform your LIS studies. Please feel free to add your own. Report on the World Summit on the Information Society Stocktaking 2012

Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), Between July 2-10 in San Diego, United States, negotiators from nine countries are meeting in to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The TPPA is a multilateral trade agreement between Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Vietnam, Malaysia, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Peru and Singapore, covering all aspects of commercial relations between the countries.

The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), along with organisations representing the library community in some of the countries participating in the negotiations, is concerned that the TPPA's extensive intellectual property chapter does not reflect the balance necessary to protect the public domain and the ways in which society may access and use content. Presently, exceptions to copyright protection are noticeably absent from leaked drafts of this ‘gold standard' IP agreement for the 21st century.

As with the flawed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which was today rejected by the European Parliament, library groups have been concerned throughout the TPPA negotiations regarding the lack of transparency related to its procedures, provisions, and priorities. IFLA, alongside nine other library organisations, has today issued a statement on the TPPA which outlines our concerns and reiterates the role libraries play in fostering equitable access to information and cultural expression, while ensuring that the interests of creators are respected and protected.

ABS. (2012). //Reading: The home and the family context//. Retrieved May 29, 2012.

Crombie, L. (2012).//[| Are public libraries still relevant?]// Retrieved May 20, 2012.

Information Enterprises Australia. (2012). //Overload for registrants: Never stop learning//. (106).

Report on the //World Summit on the Information Society Stoicktaking 2012// - International Telecommunciation Union (ITU), Geneva. The Economist. (2012). //History flushed: The digital age promised vast libraries, but they remain incomplete//. Retrieved May 17, 2012.

Churches, A. (2012). Some libraries still have got it wrong ... //Educational Origami: ICT, pedagogy and education//. Retrieved May 17, 2012.

Buckland, M.K. (2008). Library reference service in a digital environment. //Library and Information Science Rsearch, 30//(2), 81-85. Retrieved May 17, 2012.

Paul, A.M. (2011). Digital literacy will never replace the traditional kind. //Time Magazine//. Retrieved May 17, 2012.

Local Government Association UK. (2011). Creat//ing future libraries//. Retrieved May 17, 2012.

Coffman, (2012). The decline and fall of the library empire. //Information Today//. Retrieved May 17, 2012.

Harvard University. (2012). The library is obsolete. Oxford Union Debate. Retrieved May 17, 2012.

American Library Association (ALA). (2012). State of America's Libraries report. Retrieved May 17, 2012.

Newman, B. & Howerton, E.D. (2012). //This is what a librarian looks like//. Retrieved May 17, 2012.

Coldewey, D. (2012). Necessary evil? Random House triples prices of library e-books. //AOL Tech//. Retrieved May 17, 2012.

King, D.L. & Porter, M. (2012). Create a library "tech shop". //American Libraries: Outside/In//. Retrieved May 17, 2012.

Mann, T. (2007). //The Peloponnesian War and the future of reference, cataloguing and scholarship in research libraries//. Library of Congress Professional Guild. Retrieved May 17, 2012.