Intellectual Property:

US stonewalling treaty that would help disabled people access copyrighted works

http://boingboing.net/2012/07/23/us-stonewalling-treaty-that-wo.html

Obama Administration Blocks International Treaty To Benefit The Blind

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/obama-blind-treaty_n_1695363.html?1343064474

U.S. support sought for treaty to allow blind people access to copyrighted works

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/us-support-sought-for-treaty-to-allow-blind-people-access-to-copyrighted-works/2012/07/23/gJQAR0Hr4W_story.html

Latest text on the definition of authorized entity: Proposals for revised text for document SCCR/23/7

http://keionline.org/node/1489

 

Conference Alerts (2013) – Call for papers:

2ndInternational Conference on Academic Libraries

12-15 February 2013 – New Delhi, India

http://www.ipu.ac.in/ical2013/index.htm

3rd International Conference of Asian Special Libraries

April 10-12, 2013, Philippine International Convention Centre

http://units.sla.org/chapter/cas/ICoASl-2013.htm

34th Annual IATUL Conference

14-18 April 2013 -  Cape Town, South Africa

http://active.cput.ac.za/iatul2013/public/index.asp?pageid=640

Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication:

Why panning for gold may be detrimental to open access research

http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/jul/23/finch-report-open-access-research?newsfeed=true