ONE BOOK, ONE WORLD:

Creating & Implementing the FAIFE Book Club

By Jonathan KelleyIFLA World Library and Information Congress

Helsinki, FinlandAugust 12, 2012

WHY the FAIFE Book Club?

Generate discussion of freedom of access and freedom of expression

Increase visibility of FAIFE through creative endeavors

Expose people to good books!

WHO is the intended audience?Intellectu

al Freedom Advocate

s

• Advocacy tools

• Communication

General

Public

• Education• Provocation• Awareness

Libraries, Librarian

s & Library Assns

• Programming• Connections

Stage IPick a book &

start discussing

Stage I:

by Evgeny Morozov

First book: The Net Delusion – How not to liberate the world

Kai Ekholm on The Net Delusion:Evgeny Morozov’s The Net Delusion has been my favourite book for a while.

It is a book that seems to open a whole new paradigm and hit in the heart of our time. He does not have any trouble hitting Google, Iran, China or USA for that matter in the belly and reveal their secret plans to master the people’s mind.

He debates ‘cyber-utopians’ for their naivety and closing their eyes for what is really happening in Internet. We all shared the naïve idea that Twitter was the tyrants worst nightmare. It was not. They use Internet even more effectively as a two-way mirror to track their citizens in action. There are bizarre examples how innocent Web 2.0 –users are hunted down.

After reading The Net Delusion we should understand better how censorship in the cyberage works. Look at China that has turned the whole country to a gigantic intranet, that has its parallels to Google, Twitter, cybercafes and happy cybermillionaires. 400 million people mastered this way with the help of tens of thousands of cyberpolice is a construction George Orwell could not even dream of. And what is most shameful: the major western ICT companies have happily helped China to build this.

We shouldn’t have too many illusions after reading his invaluable book. Morozov illustrates many cases that are globalization as its worst.

What was your illusion lost after reading this book?

Chapter-by-chapter analysisOn LibraryThing

(initially)Transferred to WordPress siteTranslated into

Finnish!Permanent

FAIFE Book Club on LibraryThing.org

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Email & TwitterTwitter Feed

@faife_book_club 42 followers

FAIFE Book Club email listfaife-bc@infoserv.inist.fr 24 subscribers

Stage IIPick another book &

improve capacity

Book should be widely available in multiple languages & formats

More interactive website, more multimedia, protect privacyBased on other online

book discussions - don’t reinvent the wheel!

Archive of past discussions

Guardian Book Group

Second book: Fahrenheit 451

Why Fahrenheit 451?Available in 60+

languagesAbout censorship(?)

Subject to censorshipAvailable in multiple

formats

New websiteWordpress site: faifebookclub.ala.org

•Blog - with comments (including anonymous)

• Multimedia – can post videos, podcasts

• Archive – all past analysis & discussions still available

• More attractive design

• Twitter feed integration

• Live chat functionality

• Event calendar

Stage IIIIncrease buy-in,

create & promote activities

Co-sponsoring organizationsHelp publicize the FAIFE Book ClubEncourage their members to participate in discussionsPlan and host in person or online events or activitiesHelp create information and events in additional

languagesProvide input on future FAIFE Book Club selections

Co-sponsors as of 9 August 20121. ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table2. Your library or organization!?

Future activitiesWebinars/webcastsLibrary-to-library Skype conversations?Banned Books WeekFacebook page?

Suggestions welcome!

Contact me!Jonathan Kelleyjokelley@ala.org+1 312 280-4226