Related activities at OCLC Symposiums

Property law and privacy rights discussed at ALA Annual 2007

OCLC Symposium: “Is the Library Open?”

Over 300 attended the OCLC Symposium on the issues of information property law, copyright, digital communication, intellectual property and user privacy rights in relation to library policies. The event was held June 22 during the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

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Cathy De Rosa, Vice President of Global Marketing and Vice President of the Americas, OCLC, was moderator.

Listen to Cathy De Rosa’s introduction to the OCLC Symposium

Watch a short video clip of Cathy De Rosa’s introduction

The expert panel included:

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  Marc Rotenberg Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, consumer protection, computer security, and communications privacy. He is editor of The Privacy Law Sourcebook and co-editor of Information Privacy Law (2006).

Listen to Marc Rotenberg’s portion of the OCLC Symposium

Watch a short video clip of Marc Rotenberg’s presentation

Listen to Marc Rotenberg’s question and answer period

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  Siva Vaidhyanathan Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar, and in the fall will be an associate professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (2004). He is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, Nation, and Salon.com, and he maintains a blog, Sivacracy.net.

Listen to the introduction of Siva Vaidhyanathan

Listen to Siva Vaidhyanathan’s portion of the OCLC Symposium

Watch a short video clip of Siva Vaidhyanathan’s presentation

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  Mary Minow Mary Minow is a library law consultant with LibraryLaw.com. She is the coauthor of The Library’s Legal Answer Book, with Tomas Lipinski, published by the American Library Association, 2003. Mary edits the Library Law blog and is an advisory board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Mary, a librarian, worked in public libraries for ten years before going to law school.

Listen to the introduction of Mary Minow

Listen to Mary Minow’s portion of the OCLC Symposium

Watch a short video clip of Mary Minow’s presentation

Listen to Mary Minow’s question and answer period

Social networking discussed at ALA Midwinter 2007

OCLC Symposium: “Who’s Watching YOUR Space?”

Michael Stephens

Howard Rheingold

danah boyd

Marc Smith

More than 400 attended the OCLC Symposium, a discussion about social networking practices and trends. The event was held January 19 during the American Library Association Midwinter Conference in Seattle, Washington.

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(also posted on YouTube)

Listen to the introduction to the OCLC Symposium by OCLC’s Cathy De Rosa

Michael Stephens, Instructor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University and author of Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software, was moderator.

Listen to Michael Stephen’s portion of the OCLC Symposium

The expert panel included:

• Howard Rheingold, a leading thinker on the cultural, social and political implications of communications media and virtual communities

  Listen to Howard Rheingold’s portion of the OCLC Symposium

• danah boyd, PhD candidate at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley and Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Communications

  Listen to danah boyd’s portion of the OCLC Symposium

• Marc Smith, Senior Research Sociologist, who leads the Community Technologies Group at Microsoft Research

  Listen to Marc Smith’s portion of the OCLC Symposium

Discussion group video clips

During the OCLC Symposium at ALA Midwinter 2007, OCLC shared the following five segments of video clips from social networking discussion groups. In each of the video clips, you’ll hear participants’ thoughts on communication, privacy, and security on social networking sites as well with the Internet in general. Participants also describe what social networking sites are and what would happen to them without social networking sites.

View photos on Flickr from the OCLC Symposium and other OCLC-related events from ALA Midwinter 2007