The Special Issue on Globalisation and Information of
Information for Social Change (number 14, winter 2001/2002)
is now out.

It includes the following:

Introduction - by Ruth Rikowski (South Bank University, and
Information for Social Change)

One Law for the Rich... - Bill Lehm (University College
London Branch, UNISON)

Transfiguration: Globalisation, the World Trade
Organisation and the National Faces of the GATS - Glenn
Rikowski (University College Northampton, and author of The
Battle in Seattle: Its significance for education)

Trading Away Our Basic Rights: the General Agreement on
Trade in Services (GATS) - Clare Joy (World Development
Movement)

GATS: Higher Education and Public Libraries - Anneliese
Dodds (Edinburgh University, and Cuba Solidarity Campaign)

The Corporate Takeover of Libraries - Ruth Rikowski (South
Bank University, and Information for Social Change)

The WTO and the Threat to Libraries - Fiona Hunt
(Information Literacy Librarian at Zayed University, in the
United Arab Emirates, and Progressive Librarians Guild)

Information, Censorship and Gender Relations in Global
Capitalism - Shahrzad Mojab (University of Toronto, Canada,
and editor of the Convergence journal)

Interpreting the 'Knowledge Economy' Cacophony: The
extension of commodification to information, production,
dissemination and storage - Alex Nunn (Researcher for the
Association of University Teachers)

The Learning Society Revisited - Patrick Ainley (University
of Greenwich, and author of Learning Policy: Towards the
Certified Society)

The Knowledge Economy vs. the Learning Society - Jonathan
Rutherford (Middlesex University, and author of The Art of
Life)

ISC - A Statement on State Terrorism, Censorship and
Repression - drafted by Martyn Lowe


If you want to go straight to the Special Issue, you can
see it at: http://libr.org/ISC/TOC.html

The Information for Social Change home page (with an
archive of previous issues) is: http://libr.org/ISC/

If you would like a hard copy, please contact John Pateman
(Head of Merton Libraries) at: [log in to unmask]
or write to John Pateman, 32 Petton Grove, Orpington, Kent,
BR5 4PU

Comments, observations and feedback welcome. Contact John
Pateman at [log in to unmask] and/or Ruth Rikowski
at [log in to unmask]

If you would like to become a member of Information for
Social Change, contact John Pateman at
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Best wishes

Ruth Rikowski - Editor of the Special Issue of Information
for Social Change on Globalisation and Information



















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