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Globalisation, Information and Libraries: The Implications of the World Trade Organisation’s GATS and TRIPS Agreements (Chandos Information Professional Series) Paperback – March 14, 2005

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This book provides an overview of the World Trade Organisation; in particular, it focuses on two of the agreements being developed at the WTO, which are due to be strengthened in 2005, and are likely to have significant implications for libraries and information: the General Agreement on Trade in Services (the GATS) and the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The book argues that the library and information profession needs to be more aware of these agreements and the way in which they threaten some of the professional ethics and principles (such as the balance in copyright).

Explores a vital and very new, much undiscovered area – the WTO and libraries
Brings together facts about globalisation and the WTO, libraries and information, within a wider social and theoretical perspective
Draws on the author’s wealth of knowledge - building on her many published articles on this topic

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424 pages
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English
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Chandos Publishing
Publication date

March 14, 2005
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6.14 x 0.96 x 9.21 inches
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1843340844
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978-1843340843
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The thinking person's librarian's globalisation manual

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2005

The implications of the World Trade Organization's GATS and TRIPS agreements don't really make it to the library staff café (but neither do the issues of outsourcing, downgrading and job insecurity these days, so that should not surprise us). While the library sector is busy hiding its collective head in the sand, Ruth Rikowski has been carefully and iteratively constructing her theory of open Marxism (most librarians think that Marx just goes with Spencer). Be warned: this is not the usual dumbing down manual that you find in your information centre / career office (with obvious advice and "lots of pictures"). You are expected to read 400 pages (which could do without repetition in many parts, but then perhaps to communicate you do need to iterate - to the point that the TINA effect becomes the tinnitus effect). Rikowski uses historical data to contextualise the topics she explores (a rarity these days) and successfully deconstructs what "service" means in the rise of global capitalism. While intellectual property rights and services become under these agreements "tradable commodities", it might not be altogether undesirable to replace the present public library service (with their bad book provision) into a privatised service. When this happens, librarians from this sector will wake up to what could have been and wasn't, because of their lack of real culture and scholarly approach to collection building, and their inability to curate for the next generation.

This book's four parts should become compulsory reading (and essay setting) at Library school: globalisation and the World Trade Organisation; the general agreement on Trade in Services [GATS]; agreement on trade-related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights [TRIPS] and the Open Marxist theoretical perspective on global capitalism and the World Trade Organisation. The guilty parties are all discussed in the book - so ask your local library to stock a copy - while the public library still exists.

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Highly recommended - a must read

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2006

If you have ever taken for granted that public libraries are an established part of our society and if you cannot imagine our society without them, you must read Ruth Rikowski's book, Globalisation, Information and Libraries.

It provides an excellent overview of the main elements of the GATS and TRIPS agreements and how these treaties could negatively impact public access to information. Ms. Rikowski explains clearly and in great detail how the GATS especially could threaten public libraries the world over, examining the situation in the UK, Canada, New Zealand, the US, and other nations. I cannot recommend her work highly enough. She explains a technical topic clearly and simply, and provides detailed references in each section of the book so that the reader may follow up with further research.

This is an important book in a world that is rapidly becoming more corporate. The WTO's corporate agenda is not being called into question by the mainstream media, nor are its activities being reported to the public. Much of the WTO's activity is enacted behind closed doors, with no public input, and its negotiations are taking place between representatives with the corporate interest at heart. Representatives of the public interest have been, until now, absent from these proceedings.

I commend Ms. Rikowski for her work compiling the mass of existing evidence against the WTO's GATS and TRIPS agreements and for explaining the implications of this evidence clearly for the public.

Anyone who cares about the public's continuing right to access information and who cannot imagine a world bereft of public libraries must read this book.

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Helen Raduntz

Globalisation, Information and Libraries by Ruth Rikowski

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2005

Outside the legal profession and the sphere of economics Ruth Rikowski's book is a refreshing attempt to critically address and explain to information professionals and to the general public the implications of the World Trade Organization's GATS and TRIPS agreements with regard to the free flow of ideas, access to information, and effects on information services.

One of the distinctive features of Rikowski's book, which I found extremely thought provoking and useful, is her open Marxist theoretical perspective. It is an approach which by drawing on Marx's labour theory of value enables her to demonstrate how in an information based and globalising economy the GATS and TRIPS agreements make it possible for the value of intellectual labour embedded in iinformation processes and products to be converted into capital and transferred into the hands of those in big business who seek to augment their already massive capital assets at the expense of the interests of the general public.

Although the subject matter is by nature somewhat technical, nevertheless the book is based on thorough research and highly accessible and informative.

It is for all these reasons that I highly recommend Rikowski's book to readers.

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