New Tactics in Human Rights Featured Monthly Tactical Discussions – “Information is Power: Librarianship and Human Rights” – begins September 26
Beginning in September the New Tactics in Human Rights project [New Tactics in Human Rights] will feature monthly tactical discussions on a specific tactic and its adaptability to other contexts and issue areas. Members will have the opportunity to dialogue with featured resource people from the New Tactics network who have used and implemented the tactic.
Join the on-line community at www.newtactics.org between 19 and 25 September to ensure your immediate participation in the “Information is Power: Librarianship and Human Rights” discussion taking place September 26 – October 2, 2007. Librarians (information experts/workers) can serve a critical role in helping organizations to research, document, collect, organize and store their information to be more efficient and effective in their mission and work. But librarianship means so much more! Featured on-line discussion resource practitioners for September are Saša Madacki, Toni Samek and Bert Verstappen.
§ Saša Madacki, Director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina is author of the Tactical Notebook, Making Sense of the Information Wilderness: Library and Information Services for the Improvement of Human Rights Work. [Read more]
§ Toni Samek, educator and scholar at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Canada is author of Librarianship and Human Rights: A 21st Century Guide through CHANDOS (Oxford) Publishing (www.chandospublishing.com). [Read more]
§ Bert Verstappen is Programme Coordinator with the Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International HURIDOCS and has a broad experience in developing tools for handling human rights information and providing training in them. Read more
Join the on-line community so you can be part of these inspiring tactical discussions.