Drained-pool Politics Versus Digital Libraries in U.S. Cyberspace

IF 1.5 4区 管理学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Mary Guillory
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Abstract

Though the capability to ban one book exists as it does in the physical world, access to digital libraries has become all-or-nothing in many instances around the nation. States, municipalities, nor school districts are united on the issue with federal law applying only on a case-by-case basis. Call it switch flipping or drained-pool politics: just don’t call it right. A refusal to share digital shelf space should not result in the eradication of digital libraries. Intellectual freedom is wrapped up in a possessive kind of love for libraries with the cost being the loss of millions of books in cyberspace. In the United States of America, the land of the free, a nation-wide balancing act is taking place that makes the horror of Fahrenheit 451 seem more like a documentary on our already eerily futuristic world.
美国网络空间的枯竭池政治与数字图书馆
尽管禁书的能力与实体世界一样存在,但在全国各地的许多情况下,数字图书馆的使用已变得非禁即入。在这个问题上,各州、各市和各学区都没有统一的意见,联邦法律只适用于个案。你可以说这是 "拨乱反正",也可以说这是 "涸泽而渔":但不要说这是正确的。拒绝共享数字书架空间不应导致数字图书馆的消亡。知识自由被一种对图书馆的占有欲所包裹,其代价是数百万册图书在网络空间的流失。在美国这片自由的土地上,正在发生着一场全国范围内的平衡之战,这让《华氏 451》的恐怖看起来更像是一部关于我们这个已经令人毛骨悚然的未来世界的纪录片。
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Information Technology and Libraries
Information Technology and Libraries 管理科学-计算机:信息系统
CiteScore
2.90
自引率
5.60%
发文量
25
审稿时长
1 months
期刊介绍: Information Technology and Libraries publishes original material related to all aspects of information technology in all types of libraries. Topic areas include, but are not limited to, library automation, digital libraries, metadata, identity management, distributed systems and networks, computer security, intellectual property rights, technical standards, geographic information systems, desktop applications, information discovery tools, web-scale library services, cloud computing, digital preservation, data curation, virtualization, search-engine optimization, emerging technologies, social networking, open data, the semantic web, mobile services and applications, usability, universal access to technology, library consortia, vendor relations, and digital humanities.
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