1. Informaton Management in
the Era of Advanced
Technology
Rick Bahague
Legal Information for Librarians: Basis
for Effective Library Management
24 October 2011
Teachers Camp, Leonard Wood Rd.,
Baguio City
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2. Our Agenda
● Introduction
● A brief on Information Systems
● Libraries and Librarians
● Technology in Information Management
● Legal Issues in Information Management
● Libraries to the Future
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3. Local Libraries as Information
Access Points
● 12% computer penetration
● 4 telephone line per 1M population
● 7 out of 10 Filipinos have access to internet
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4. Activities online
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5. Digital Divide
● Limited access to information in rural areas
using technology
● If access is available, technology should be
used to organize, coordinate, study, deliver
services, encourage transparency in
governance and harness technology to
advance people's struggles
● Local libraries as access points of information
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6. Leveraging Technology
● Libraries are yet to take advantage of
information and communications technology
(ICT)
● How many of our local libraries actually have
online searchable selections?
● Use of Library Information Management System
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7. Information Systems
● Ancient “information systems” through
● oral traditions
● Writings
● Early information systems
● Temple collections
● Government and royal archives
● Organized business or economic records
● Family or genealogical papers
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8. Garbage In. Garbage Out.
● Information system is an integrated
workflow
● collecting,
● storing,
● processing,
● and communicating information
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9. Information System and Technology
● Technology has also facilitated access to various
informaton systems.
● Online newspapers
● Online journals
● Digital libraries
● Requires new skills to build, operate and maintain
such systems.
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10. Librarians and Libraries
● Libraries must not remain as edifces housing
collectons of serials, periodicals, books and other
archives.
● Must have updated collectons
● Must transcend its image of being a “boring” place
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11. Libraries and Librarians v2.0
● Transform into an environment where learners
and researchers are guided to information they
need
● Be an active research and learning partner of
education institutions
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12. Libraries and Librarians v2.0
● “must contnue to perform one of the most
important functon it now performs in the print-on-
paper world: to organize the universe of resources in
such a way that those most likely to be of value to
the user community”
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13. Libraries and Librarians v2.0
● Librarians' skills in cataloguing, classifcaton,
indexing, enquiry work and user educaton [5] is
much needed to organize the ocean of informaton
in the era of technology.
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14. Libraries and Librarians v2.0
● Technology has speed up the retrieval of
informaton
● it has also drown researchers and learners whom
are not able to discern relevant or irrelevant
informaton.
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15. Libraries and Librarians v2.0
● librarians should be advocates of freedom of
informaton
● Libraries should be a haven for freedom of
informaton
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16. TECHNOLOGY IN INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
● Integrated Library Systems like Koha – local libraries
will improve in collecton and retrieval of
informaton with this tool.
● Digital Libraries – there is a growing trend in
publicatons where materials are only produced in
digital formats.
● Digitzaton projects – various digitzaton eforts are
being undertaken by diferent organizatons.
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17. TECHNOLOGY IN INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
● Open Access Initatves – is the publicaton of works
without copyright restrictons.
● Open Content – is similar to open access but allows
modifcaton of the work.
● Optcal media archives
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18. TECHNOLOGY IN INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
● Wikipedia and other open content compilaton like
Khan Academy
● Syndicaton of online contents – rss of news,
educatonal materials covering a range of topics.
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19. Legal Issues in Information
Management
● Most legal restrictons in informaton management
are to protect copyright
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20. Legal Issues in Information
Management
The Philippine Consttuton of 1987 (Artcle III Sec 7)
states:
“The right of the people to informaton on maters of
public concern shall be recognized. Access to ofcial
records, and to documents, and papers pertaining to
ofcial acts, transactons, or decisions, as well as to
government research data used as basis for policy
development, shall be aforded the citzen, subject to
limitatons as may be provided by law.”
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21. Legal Issues in Information
Management
Public Libraries and Reading Centers Act 2004
“Every congressional district, city and municipality
should establish public libraries and reading centers.
These centers are mandated to provide a wide array of
reading materials and be used for audiovisual
presentatons in the community.”
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22. Intellectual Property Code
● Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (Republic Act No.
8293) ("RA 8293 ")
The State recognizes that an efectve intellectual and industrial
property system is vital to the development of domestc and
creatve actvity, facilitates transfer of technology, atracts
foreign investments, and ensures market access for our
products. It shall protect and secure the exclusive rights of
scientsts, inventors, artsts and other gifed citzens to their
intellectual property and creatons, partcularly when benefcial
to the people, for such periods as provided in this Act. “
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23. Intellectual Property Rights
● copyrights and related rights,
● trademark and service marks,
● geographic indicatons,
● industrial designs,
● patents,
● layout-designs (topographies) of integrated circuits
● protecton of undisclosed informaton
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24. IPR Code
● Instead of facilitatng access to educatonal
materials and informaton, the IPR code has
restricted access to it.
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25. Creative Commons
● The Creative Commons licenses enable
copyright holders to:
● grant some or all of their rights to the public while
retaining others through a variety of licensing and
contract schemes including dedication to the public
domain or open content licensing terms.
● The intention is to avoid the problems current
copyright laws create for the sharing of information.
● The project provides several free licenses that
copyright owners can use when releasing their
works on the Web.
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26. Creative Commons
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27. E-Commerce Act 2000
● defnes penaltes to piracy through the use of
telecommunicatons networks, such as the internet.
● Criminalizes hacking/cracking
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28. Optical Media Act 2003
● Restrictons on
● unregulated mastering,
● manufacture,
● replicaton,
● importaton and exportaton of optcal media
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29. Libraries to the Future
● Privacy, censorship and copyright respect
● Accessibility
● Freedom of Information
● Start using Free and Open Source Software
● Library information management system
● Document processing
● Advocate and Use Open Access and Open
Content materials
● Network and Internet Use
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30. Libraries to the Future
● While there are legal issues to be followed, libraries
and librarians should primarily consider facilitatng
informaton access to the people.
● Libraries and librarians should combine technology
and fundamental skills in informaton management
to provide service to consttuents.
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31. Thank you
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