With my new life of retirement, this blog is morphing into a CURRENT EVENTS BLOG...
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All around the world, shadow libraries keep growing, filled with banned materials. But no actual papers trade hands: everything is digital, and the internet-accessible content is not banned for shocking content so much as [for] that modern crime, copyright infringement.
But for the people who run the world’s pirate libraries, their goals are no less ambitious for their work’s illicit nature.
“It’s the creation of a universal library of the best stuff,” says Joe Karaganis, who studies media piracy at Columbia University’s policy think tank, American Assembly. “That will not include the latest Danielle Steel novel.”
It does, however, include hundreds of thousands of books and millions of journal articles that otherwise are found only through expensive academic journals. Scanned or downloaded from journal sites, they are available through pirate libraries for free.
"The day will soon come when we'll sardonically ask ourselves: 'Remember when we had to visit a website and look around for what we needed?' Now the data comes to us."
What will it do?
1. It will revolutionize the competition.
2. It will provide unprecedented personalization.
3. It will strengthen already lucrative programs.
What does this mean to you?
How do you feel about this?
Won't your opinion be shaped by what information you are fed?
Do you want to lose one more choice in your information sources?
It's a surprise to your MHS Librarian; but it seems that a number of people actually have a fear of going to any library. Read about this in an article on The Atlas Obscure Newsletter website,
"Library anxiety is real. The phenomenon, which involves feeling intimidated, embarrassed, and overwhelmed by libraries and librarians, was first identified by Constance A. Mellon in 1986."
