UID:
edoccha_9960073214002883
Format:
1 online resource (423 p.)
ISBN:
1-78063-077-8
Series Statement:
Chandos Information Professional Series
Content:
This book provides an overview of the World Trade Organisation; in particular, it focuses on two of the agreements being developed at the WTO, which are due to be strengthened in 2005, and are likely to have significant implications for libraries and information: the General Agreement on Trade in Services (the GATS) and the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The book argues that the library and information profession needs to be more aware of these agreements and the way in which they threaten some of the professional ethics and principles (such as the
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Globalisation, Information and Libraries: The implications of the World Trade Organisation's GATS and TRIPS Agreements; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; About the author; 1 Introduction; Part 1 Globalisation and the World Trade Organisation; 2 Globalisation and an overview of the WTO; 2.1 Globalisation; 2.2 Overview of the World Trade Organisation; 2.3 Conclusion; Part 2 The General Agreement on Trade in Services; 3 An overview of the GATS; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historical perspective - GATT and the GATS
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3.3 What is the General Agreement on Trade in Services?3.4 Links between the GATS and the commercialisation, privatisation and capitalisation agenda of state-funded services; 3.5 Summary; 4 The GATS, libraries, information and cultural services within an international perspective; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Public goods, private goods and commodities; 4.3 'Library service' categorisations in the GATS; 4.4 Countries that have committed their library services to the GATS; 4.5 Canada: libraries and the GATS; 4.6 USA: libraries, cultural services and the GATS
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4.7 Japan: libraries, education services and the GATS4.8 Australia: libraries, cultural services and the GATS; 4.9 New Zealand: libraries, education services and the GATS; 4.10 The developing world: libraries, the digital divide and the GATS; 4.11 India: libraries, education services and the GATS; 4.12 South Africa: libraries, education services and the GATS; 4.13 Europe: libraries and the GATS; 4.14 The UK: libraries and the GATS; 4.15 Chile, the USA and Singapore: multilateral free trade agreements and cultural services; 4.16 Audio-visual industry and the GATS; 4.17 Conclusion
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5 Real-life examples of how the GATS is impacting on libraries in the UK5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The future role of public state-funded libraries in the UK; 5.3 Implications of the GATS for libraries and information: the development of a framework; 5.4 Commercialisation of libraries in the UK; 5.5 Privatisation of libraries in the UK; 5.6 Capitalisation of libraries in the UK; 5.7 The national faces of the GATS in the UK; 5.8 Conclusions; 6 Positions taken by various library and cultural bodies on the GATS; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
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6.3 British Columbia Library Association6.4 Canadian Library Association; 6.5 Other Canadian library bodies; 6.6 European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations; 6.7 American Library Association; 6.8 Writers' Guild of America, West; 6.9 Australian Library and Information Association; 6.10 Australian Writers' Guild; 6.11 The UK's Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals; 6.12 Library Association of Ireland; 6.13 Professional Associations from the Cultural Milieu
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6.14 Concluding comments: responses of library, information and cultural bodies to the GATS
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84334-084-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84334-092-5
Language:
English
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