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Valuing Local Knowledge: Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights.
Brush, Stephen B., Ed.; Stabinsky, Doreen, Ed. – 1996
Intellectual property enables individuals to gain financially from sharing unique and useful knowledge. Compensating indigenous people for sharing their knowledge and resources might both validate and be an equitable reward for indigenous knowledge of biological resources, and might promote the conservation of those resources. This book contains…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Biodiversity, Conservation (Environment)
A New Frontier: The National Information Infrastructure. Proceedings from the State-of-the-Art Institute (8th, Washington, D.C., November 3-4, 1994).
Special Libraries Association, New York, NY. – 1994
These conference proceedings address the key issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure, including social policy, cultural issues, government policy, and technological applications. The goal is to provide the knowledge and resources needed to conceptualize and think clearly about this topic. Proceedings include: "Opening…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Federal Legislation, Government Role
Digital Image Access & Retrieval.
Heidorn, P. Bryan, Ed.; Sandore, Beth, Ed. – 1997
Recent technological advances in computing and digital imaging technology have had immediate and permanent consequences for visual resource collections. Libraries are involved in organizing and managing large visual resource collections. The central challenges in working with digital image collections mirror those that libraries have sought to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Graphics, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Libraries
Legal Rights in Education: Pendulum Swings. Papers [of the] Education Law Association (ELA) Annual Conference (44th, Charleston, South Carolina, November 19-21, 1998).
Education Law Association, Dayton, OH. – 1998
This document is a collection of 32 1998 Education Law Association conference papers. The collection includes the following papers: "The More We Change: Meeting the Requirements of Unitary Status" (Angela M. Sewall and Ann E. Witcher); "Everything You Need To Know about Discipline of Students with Disabilities" (David T. Duff,…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Accountability, Affirmative Action, Court Litigation