Information For Social Change

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Information For Social Change

http://libr.org/ISC

ISSN 1364-694X 

Published twice a year.  Current and future issues online.

Information for Social Change is an activist organisation that examines
issues of censorship, freedom and ethics amongst library and information
workers. It is committed to promoting alternatives to the dominant
paradigms of library and information work and publishes its own journal,
Information for Social Change.

The ways by which information is controlled and mediated has a serious
influence on the ways people think, how they communicate, what they
believe is the "real world", what the limits of the permissible are. This
applies equally to information that comes through the channels of the mass
media, through our bookshops or through our libraries.

Of course, free and equal access to information is a myth throughout the
world, although different situations pertain in different countries.  
Control is more explicit in cruder in some places, more "sophisticated"
and more invisible elsewhere (for example in Britain). One of the aims of
Information for Social Change is to document these situations.

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