"Library Schools: Developing Librarians of the Future - Moving beyond Professionalism" | 20 August 2010

New entry by Ken Williment on the "Social Justice Librarian" blog, which looks at some of the issues around the mission for libraries. Also includes a quote from John Vincent.

Ken was a member of the Canadian libraries "Working Together" project.

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Equality Act 2010 | 22 July 2010

According to Race on The Agenda:

"The timetable for bringing the Equality Act into force is subject to a Reducing Regulation Committee that is chaired by the Business Secretary Vince Cable. The first tranche of clauses in the act will not be subject to this review and will be commenced and brought into force in October. The second tranche of clauses, including the Public Sector Equality Duty, will go through this review for which details on when it will be over are not clear.

The specific duty regulations that will form the detail of the Public Sector Equality Duty will be consulted on at some point before April 2011. We are yet to find out the exact dates of the consultation but it is expected over the summer. We will inform you when the next consultation will be as soon as the details com from the Government Equalities Office."

Posted in: Equality & Human Rights, Diversity, Positive Action | Network Briefings, news & opinion

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Social Justice - "Political Correctness" | 18 January 2010

I was interested (and pleased) to see this piece arguing in favour of looking at language and the harmful effects it may have.

Posted in: Network Briefings, news & opinion | Disability - general

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The Social Media Exchange 2009 - smex09 | 6 February 2009

On 26 January, I attended the lunchtime discussion at The Social Media Exchange 2009, organised by Sounddelivery. The discussion focused particularly on the deabte around content versus technology, with some interesting contributions from Google and the BBC. The key events from the whole day are on the dedicated website - some interesting content!

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