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FYI France: Front National (reprise) & good new books etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Kessler)
Mon Nov 17 20:40:48 1997
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:48:20 -0600
From: Jack Kessler <kessler@well.com>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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FYI France: Front National (reprise) and some good new books etc.
In case any of you think that the issue of the Front National and
libraries -- extremist right - wing mayors removing left - wing
publications from library shelves -- is moot or resolved or going away in
France (see FYI France issues of April 15, June 15): it could happen
elsewhere (think of your own town, wherever you are ) --
September 8, 1997 08:13 GMT -- Agence France Presse
Headline: Far-right mayor fined over racist comments
"Catherine Megret of the far - right National Front (NF) was found guilty
over the comments about racial equality made to the German daily Berliner
Zeitung... Megret told the paper that blacks are genetically different to
whites while immigrants -- who she said are often synonymous with crime --
should have their benefits cut and given to French people. 'We are going
to withdraw all public funding for immigrants, and give the money to
French people," she said. 'You'll see how quickly they disappear, those
who are only here for the money.'"
A friend points out that news like this sometimes is reassuring, in that
it proves that all the jerks in the world aren't just in your own town...=
=20
On November 10 the French fined Mayor Megret 50,000 francs for what she
said, and gave her a 3 month suspended jail sentence, for "incitation a`
la discrimination racial" / "complicite' de provocation publique a' la
discrimination a` l'e'gard d'un groupe de personnes en raison de leur
origine ou de leur appartenance ou de leur non-appartenance a` une ethnie
ou a` une nation de'termine'e".=20
I am not sure that the US even has such a law, and I don't think that it
could be enforced against a public official, legally, even if we did. But
then aren't we lucky not to need it: Mme. Megret's husband runs the Front
National, which polled 15% of the popular vote in the last French national
election -- a problem which the US does not have either, at the moment. I
wonder what we would be doing here legally if we did?=20
So, on the theory that extremists of any type relish the scrutiny of
public opinion -- and that public opinion well - informed is better than
public opinion ill - informed -- a favor to both may be found in the new
listings of no less than 7 Valence libraries, which now appear at,
=09http://www.fyifrance.com/fyi1plib.htm=20
-- if you can't find it on the shelves at Vitrolles or Marignane or
Orange, in France's imperilled South, head over to nearby Valence.=20
And the Front National's own site, complete with their Mein Kampf written
by Monsieur Megret, "L=92Alternative nationale" -- fulltext online at
http://www.front-nat.fr/livremegret/lmegret.htm -- and sound files of Jean
- Marie Le Pen speeches to which you can listen online (see / hear
"Ine'galite' des Races", "Racisme", "De l'antiracisme" and "Message a` la
jeunesse"), all is available at http://www.front-nat.fr -- sad de'ja vu
for those of you who remember or have an interest in the European 1930's.
=09=09=09=09--oOo--
One of the harsher realities in the latest library funding crises, on both
sides of the Atlantic, is the demise of international acquisitions in
library budgets: to FIFO and LIFO we now add MEFO -- most expensive /
first out -- or at least I can't find too many books about French digital
information and Internet developments, nowadays, outside of France.=20
So in hopes, as always, of spurring interest -- among the French for
things French, and among the non - French for things "foreign" (sometimes
I think the "crises" are not financial but more a periodic isolationist
trend) -- here is a list: some new books and even videos hopefully of
interest, for law and business and medicine and Java and LANs and policy
and other things -- Websites in a later issue -- what the French / one
example of the non - Anglo world (the customers!) are reading --
TITRE Big Browser, l'impact d'Internet sur les entreprises
EDITE A Boulogne : Informatique professionnelle, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * 96 p. ; 30cm
TITRES LIES Fait partie de : L'informatique professionnelle
VOL.148,novembre 1996
AUTEUR =09 Michel Bonjour, Gilles Falquet, Jacques Guyot et Andre Le
=09 Grand=20
TITRE Java : de l'esprit a la methode : distribution
=09 d'applications sur Internet=20
EDITE A Paris : Albany [N.Y.] : Bonn [etc.] : International Thomson
publ. France, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * XIX-442 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
ISBN 2-84180-134-9
=20
TITRE Le marche de l'internet : avenir ou illusions?
EDITE A Paris : Mediaspouvoirs, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * 195 p. : ill. ; 24cm
TITRES LIES Fait partie de : Mediaspouvoirs VOL.43-44, 3e-4e
=09 trimestres 1996
=20
AUTEUR Andrieu, Olivier * Lafont, Denis
TITRE Internet et l'entreprise=20
EDITION 2e tirage
EDITE A Paris : Eyrolles, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * XVIII-395 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 23 cm
ISBN 2-212-08906-6
AUTEUR Bauche, Gilles
TITRE Tout savoir sur Internet=20
EDITE A [Paris] : Arlea, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * 249 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN 2-86959-294-9
=20
AUTEUR Guedon, Jean-Claude
TITRE La planete cyber : Internet et cyberespace=20
EDITE A [Paris] : Gallimard, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * 128 p. : ill. en noir et en coul., couv. ill. en
=09 coul. ; 18 cm
COLLECTION (Decouvertes Gallimard : techniques ; 280)
ISBN 2-07-053349-2
=20
AUTEUR Masse, Alain
TITRE Internet : la revolution est pour demain
EDITE A Paris : les Ed. du Telephone, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * 335 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 22 cm
ISBN 2-909879-22-4
=20
AUTEUR Nora, Dominique
TITRE Les conquerants du cybermonde
EDITION Nouv. ed. rev.
EDITE A [Paris] : Gallimard, 1997
SUPPORT LIVRE * 530 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm
COLLECTION (Folio . Actuel ; 52)
ISBN 2-07-032946-1
=20
AUTEUR Toutain, Laurent
TITRE Reseaux locaux et Internet : des protocoles a
=09 l'interconnexion=20
EDITE A Paris : Hermes, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * XVIII-526 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
COLLECTION (Reseaux et telecommunications)
ISBN 2-86601-567-3
=20
AUTEUR Trifot, Alain
TITRE Extranet / Alain Trifot
EDITE A Paris : Hermes, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * 123 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
COLLECTION (Documentation multimedia)
ISBN 2-86601-574-6
=20
AUTEUR Virga. pseud.
TITRE Le grand dictionnaire Marabout de la micro-informatique et
=09 de l'Internet=20
EDITE A Alleur (Belg): Marabout; [Paris]: [diff. Hachette], 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * 736 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN 2-501-02524-5
=20
AUTEUR Bensoussan, Alain
TITRE Internet, aspects juridique
EDITE A Paris : Hermes, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * 127 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
ISBN 2-86601-543-6
=20
AUTEUR Cassagne, Herve
TITRE Internet pour les medecins : decouverte, utilisations,
=09 sites medicaux=20
EDITE A Paris (11 Bd. de Sebastopol, 75001) : Ed. medicales
specialisees, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * X-165 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 21 cm
COLLECTION (Collection Medistrategies)
ISBN 2-901227-10-4
=20
AUTEUR Fraser, Bruno ; realisateur
TITRE Internet
EDITE A [s.l.] : L. Regimbald : Sodinart international, 1996
SUPPORT VIDEO * 1 videocassette V.H.S. 1/2 pouce (70 mn) : couleur
SECAM, sonore
COLLECTION (Connaitre et pratiquer)
AUTRES AUTEURS Regimbald, Lucien ; commentateur
=20
AUTEUR MaranGraphics [adapt. franc,aise par Michel Dumontier,
=09 Robert Velogier]
TITRE Internet et le World Wide Web, c'est simple
EDITE A Paris : F1RST, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * V-213 p.: ill.en coul., couv.ill.en coul. ; 26 cm
COLLECTION (Collection 3-D visuel de F1RST)
ISBN 2-87691-335-6
=20
TITRE Securite' Internet pour l'entreprise / Terry Bernstein,
=09 Anish B. Bhimani, Eugene Schultz et Carol A. Siegel ; trad.
=09 de Catherine Reclus
EDITE A Paris ; Albany [N.Y.] ; Bonn [etc.] : International Thomson
publ. France ; [New York] : Wiley, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE * XII-425 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
TITRES LIES Titre original : Internet security for business
ISBN 2-84180-133-0 =20
AUTEUR Knobel, Marc
TITRE Racisme et neo-nazisme sur le reseau Internet : Un rapport
=09 du Centre Wiesenthal
EDITE A Paris : Centre Simon Wiesenthal, 1997
SUPPORT LIVRE * 100 p.
AUTEUR Reboul, Pierre
TITRE Le commerce electronique : techniques et enjeux
EDITE A Paris : Eyrolles, 1997
SUPPORT LIVRE *
ISBN 2-212-08963-5 =20
AUTEUR Piette-Coudol, Thierry
TITRE Internet et la loi
EDITE A Paris : Dalloz, 1996
SUPPORT LIVRE *
ISBN 2-247-02589-7 =20
AUTEUR Colombain, Jerome
TITRE La Cyberculture
EDITE A Toulouse : Editions Milan, 1997
SUPPORT LIVRE *
ISBN 2-84113-525-X =20
AUTEUR=09 Haard, Peter [trad. de l'allemand]=20
TITRE =09 Amour, sexe et Internet=20
EDITEUR (Paris : Micro application, c1996)
TITRE =09 Le livre : la fin d'un regne / Fabrice Piault. =20
EDITEUR [Paris] : Stock, c1995.
EDITION Series title: Au vif.
ISBN 2-234-04475-8 =20
AUTEUR=09 Nicole Tortello, Pascal Lointier. =20
TITRE=09 Internet pour les juristes
EDITEUR Paris : Dalloz, 1996.
AUTEUR=09 Guisnel, Jean
TITRE=09 Guerres dans le cyberespace : services secrets et Internet=
=20
EDITION Nouv. ed. rev. et augm.
EDITEUR Paris : la Decouverte, 1997
AUTEUR=09 Bryan, Adrian
TITRE=09 Internet et la securite du systeme informatique de
=09 l'entreprise =20
EDITION=09 [Nouv. ed.]
EDITEUR=09 Clichy - Espace Clichy 21, 68 rue Villeneuve, 92587 Cedex
=09 : Learning tree international, 1996 =20
AUTEUR=09 Havinga, Gerry
TITRE=09 Internet pour les applications de l'entreprise: travaux
=09 pratiques =20
EDITION [Nouv. ed.]
EDITEUR Clichy - Espace Clichy 21, 68 rue Villeneuve, 92587 Cedex:
Learning tree international, 1996 =20
AUTEUR=09 Hoeltgen, Dominique
TITRE=09 Les marchands de l'Internet
EDITEUR=09 Paris : les Ed. du Telephone, 1996=20
=20
(Many thanks once again to Patrick Bazin and the able staff of the BMLyon
for their excellent selection, formatting, and provision of one of the
easier - to - reach - and - use international library resources to be
found anywhere: http://www.bm-lyon.fr/ -- also telnet://134.214.24.3/ .
Many -- not all -- of the citations which appear here are from BMLyon
records, and I have used their formatting to present the others.)
No I don't know where you are going to find the books and videos
themselves if you are not in France -- that is getting increasingly hard
these days. It really shouldn't be. This is not a time of the "franc
fort". French publishers should be pushing. Online access is getting
easier and cheaper, by the way: hint! -- to those French publishers.
France and the French do not seem to be energized to sell overseas at the
moment, and "overseas" doesn't have the interest in France and the French
that they once had: something needs to be done, if we are not all to
retreat further into our separate little isolationist shells.=20
Try your library -- push your selector, and selectors push that committee
and that budget -- and your local bookstore and be sure to check, and
push, the amazing new http://www.amazon.com and of course its rivals as
well. These are good things to read: know what your international customer
is reading -- it's an international world.=20
=09=09=09=09--oOo--
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