South Africa's copyright law must not continue ignoring the principles of fair use.
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Sharing seeds was common practice among farmers throughout history until the rise of agribusiness. Now seeds are trademarked and regulated, but there's a new place to get them for free: the library.
While many jobs are being replaced by technology, those that participate in the making of (good) social experiences for people are bucking the trend.
South Africa has a history of burning books. The ashes of burnt books tell of the barbarism to which a society can descend.
Only a small fraction of the data from archaeological fieldwork is made accessible to the public or preserved for future research.
In the digital age, libraries got creative about how to translate services they've always offered into new formats. And they've transformed their spaces to have a variety of community uses.
Interdisciplinary research led to the discovery that three historic books were covered in a layer of arsenic.
For Ethiopia, there is no connection between the Maqdala war in 1868 and the stolen treasures at Maqdala
A new room will open at the NSW State LIbrary today, furnished with objects from Donald and Myfanwy Horne's study. Their daughter, Julia, reflects here on a writing partnership and the room that fostered it.
Wikipedia's coverage on women is less comprehensive, and its volunteer editor base is mostly male. What can be done to change the numbers?
Every year South Africans spend twice as much on chocolate than they do on books
Essays On Air: Why libraries can and must change.
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The much heralded 'death of the book' has nothing to do with the death of reading or writing. It's about a radical transformation in reading practices, as explained in this episode of Essays On Air.
Technologies for accessing information need to be somehow future-proofed.
Three innovative projects set to be completed this year are geared toward strengthening communities that have been left out of the economic recovery.
In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.
A Puerto Rican librarian with a personal relationship to hurricanes describes the brutal reality of life on this Caribbean island more than a month after Maria and Irma left their mark.
One reason why the steel magnate spent so much of his fortune building libraries across the nation and abroad is that he saw handing large fortunes to the next generation as a waste of money.
The history of the library is replete with mechanical marvels. More than collections of books, libraries are social, cultural and technological institutions that house the very idea of a society.
With a little advance planning and creativity, librarians can help keep kids and teens busy and safe during emergencies.
Why keep buying and chucking when you can rent and return?
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Donald A. Barclay is a Friend of The Conversation.Deputy University Librarian, University of California, Merced
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Director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Associate Professor, Art & Design: UNSW Australia. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, UNSW
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Digital Archivist
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University Historian and Principal Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Media Communications, Aston University
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Lecturer, University of Strathclyde
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
