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Re: "The Perfect Library"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sloan, Bernie)
Tue Jan 4 20:02:56 2005
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:52:56 -0600
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Siva Vaidyanathan gave a lecture on this topic as part of the Library of
Congress "Luminary Lectures @ Your Library" series in 2003:
Vaidyanathan, Siva. The Anarchist in the Library: The Moral Panics over
Copyright and Free Speech. May 9, 2003.
A cybercast of this talk may be viewed online at:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/vaidhyanathan.html
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[mailto:PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Hart
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Subject: "The Perfect Library"
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Found in The Hindu, Madras's leading newspaper:
In a brilliant, scintillating new book called The Anarchist in the
Library by Siva Vaidyanathan (a rising young academic star who teaches
at New York University) which looks at "how the clash between freedom
and control is hacking the real world and crashing the system", you
learn that the library is the biggest threat to commercial information
systems and content industries because libraries are leaks in the
information economy. "The perfect library", writes Vaidyanathan,
"would offer you access to any text, song, film, image, or video game.
It would be easy, convenient and free. The perfect library would be
built and stocked by volunteers who donated their time, labour,
creativity and passion."
