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ONE BOOK, ONE WORLD: Creating & Implementing the FAIFE Book Club

ONE BOOK, ONE WORLD: Creating & Implementing the FAIFE Book Club. By Jonathan Kelley IFLA World Library and Information Congress Helsinki, Finland August 12, 2012. WHY the FAIFE Book Club?. Generate discussion of freedom of access and freedom of expression

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ONE BOOK, ONE WORLD: Creating & Implementing the FAIFE Book Club

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  1. ONE BOOK, ONE WORLD:Creating & Implementing the FAIFE Book Club By Jonathan Kelley IFLA World Library and Information Congress Helsinki, Finland August 12, 2012

  2. WHY the FAIFE Book Club? • Generate discussion of freedom of access and freedom of expression • Increase visibility of FAIFE through creative endeavors • Expose people to good books!

  3. WHO is the intended audience?

  4. Stage I Pick a book & start discussing

  5. Stage I: First book: The Net Delusion – How not to liberate the world by Evgeny Morozov

  6. Kai Ekholm on The Net Delusion: Evgeny Morozov’s The Net Delusion has been my favourite book for a while. It is a book that seems to open a whole new paradigm and hit in the heart of our time. He does not have any trouble hitting Google, Iran, China or USA for that matter in the belly and reveal their secret plans to master the people’s mind. He debates ‘cyber-utopians’ for their naivety and closing their eyes for what is really happening in Internet. We all shared the naïve idea that Twitter was the tyrants worst nightmare. It was not. They use Internet even more effectively as a two-way mirror to track their citizens in action. There are bizarre examples how innocent Web 2.0 –users are hunted down. After reading The Net Delusion we should understand better how censorship in the cyberage works. Look at China that has turned the whole country to a gigantic intranet, that has its parallels to Google, Twitter, cybercafes and happy cybermillionaires. 400 million people mastered this way with the help of tens of thousands of cyberpolice is a construction George Orwell could not even dream of. And what is most shameful: the major western ICT companies have happily helped China to build this. We shouldn’t have too many illusions after reading his invaluable book. Morozov illustrates many cases that are globalization as its worst. What was your illusion lost after reading this book?

  7. Chapter-by-chapter analysis

  8. FAIFE Book Club on LibraryThing.org

  9. Features of LibraryThing Members have ability to post comments No comments 

  10. Email & Twitter • Twitter Feed • @faife_book_club • 42 followers • FAIFE Book Club email list • faife-bc@infoserv.inist.fr  • 24 subscribers

  11. Stage II Pick another book & improve capacity

  12. Guardian Book Group • Book should be widely available in multiple languages & formats • More interactive website, more multimedia, protect privacy • Based on other online book discussions - don’t reinvent the wheel! • Archive of past discussions

  13. Second book: Fahrenheit 451

  14. Why Fahrenheit 451?

  15. New website Wordpress site: faifebookclub.ala.org • Blog - with comments (including anonymous) • Multimedia – can post videos, podcasts • Archive – all past analysis & discussions still available • More attractive design • Twitter feed integration • Live chat functionality • Event calendar

  16. Stage III Increase buy-in, create & promote activities

  17. Co-sponsoring organizations • Help publicize the FAIFE Book Club • Encourage their members to participate in discussions • Plan and host in person or online events or activities • Help create information and events in additional languages • Provide input on future FAIFE Book Club selections Co-sponsors as of 9 August 2012 • ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table • Your library or organization!?

  18. Future activities • Webinars/webcasts • Library-to-library Skype conversations? • Banned Books Week • Facebook page? Suggestions welcome!

  19. Contact me! Jonathan Kelley jokelley@ala.org +1 312 280-4226

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