LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION ACCESS
What is copyright? Is it not the right to give some selected people the authority to deny others information just because they are privileged to have what they have acquired freely published or in a form that is reproducible.
What should librarians do concerning the freedom of access to information? Refuse people to access the databases because the library has not yet paid up the subscription fee?
Encourage people to make copies of software that is necessary for access of information in the library?
The later would be the choice of every librarian who is concise of power of information and the right that every human being has to information.
The investors in technology should not be allowed to take control of who accesses the information that is available. This is because they would control demand by hiking prices, control the distribution of information and decide who will access information and who will not basing it the amount of money one has. This would eventually lead to inaccessibility of information by the poor. Who cannot pay the rising fee of access.
