Conference Session 75

Sleepwalking into a control society?

Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)

Congress track 1: Open access and digital resources.

12 August 2012 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Session Room 1 | SI

NOTE: this session will be live-streamed!

• Introduction and welcome
  KAI EKHOLM (Chair of FAIFE)
• The Internet is dead!
  SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN (Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA)
• Response: new media control in Europe
  ERKAN SAKA (Istanbul Bilgi University, School of Communication, Istanbul, Turkey)
• The IFLA Code of Ethics for librarians and other information workers
  PAUL STURGES (Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire United Kingdom)
• FAIFE update
  KAI EKHOLM (Chair of FAIFE) and PÄIVIKKI KARHULA (FAIFE Committee Member)

FAIFE Maker's mark:

• The FAIFE Advent calendar
  PANU SOMERMA and JANI NIEMINEN (Entresse Library, Espoo, Finland)
• FAIFE Book Club
  JONATHAN KELLEY (ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
• ALA most banned books in USA 2011
  BARBARA JONES (ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom, Chicago, Illinois, USA)