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SfAA Podcasts

April 18th, 2007 1 Comment

[Cross posted at Savage Minds]
Jen Cardew has set up a website where you can download podcasts of sessions from this year’s SfAA meeting. Only a few are up so far, but more will be posted as they become available. Great work Jen!
It is worth noting that she did this using Wordpress.com’s free blog hosting – [...]

Tags: Case studies

Libraries and Indigenous Knowledge

April 8th, 2007 1 Comment

[Previously posted on Savage Minds]
I’m happy to inform you of a new open access book entitled Libraries and Indigenous Knowledge: A National Forum for Libraries, Archives and Information Services:
This book is an outcome of the Libraries and Indigenous Knowledge Colloquium held at the State Library of New South Wales in December 2004. The editors have [...]

Tags: Case studies · Indigenous Rights

Open access in action: a Pacific example

January 2nd, 2007 2 Comments

In November 2006, Tonga was swept by a wave of civil disorder. One of the casualities of this was the Friendly Islands Bookstore, one of the few places in Nuku’alofa (the capital of Tonga) where you could go to purchase academic books.
Enter Michael Evans, a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. [...]

Tags: Case studies · Open texts