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State Secrecy: A Literature Review, Stephane Lefebvre Jan 2021

State Secrecy: A Literature Review, Stephane Lefebvre

Secrecy and Society

What is secrecy? What is a state secret? Which state secrets deserve protection from disclosures? How are state secrets protected from disclosure? In this review, I use these questions as an organizing framework to review the richness of a very disparate, largely US-centric, but also multidisciplinary literature. In doing so, I highlight the social nature of secrecy - that it is a social construct with social effects and consequences - and the need for further research to unveil those rationalities that specific discourses on state secrecy put forward to legitimize the nondisclosure of state secrets.


Copyright, Fair Use And The Digital Age In Academic Libraries: A Review Of The Literature, Amanda Mccormick Dec 2014

Copyright, Fair Use And The Digital Age In Academic Libraries: A Review Of The Literature, Amanda Mccormick

School of Information Student Research Journal

Copyright law in the United States has gained a certain notoriety for its complexity and ambiguity, which has only been compounded by the evolution (or, some would say, revolution) of print resources to electronic resources. The purpose of this literature review is to review the current understanding of copyright law within the context of academic libraries in universities and colleges. Additionally, this review will describe what issues academic librarians face in complying with copyright law in this new digital age while continuing to perform duties such as processing course reserve materials, developing an institutional repository, and maintaining a digital collection. …


Closing The Research/Practice Gap: The Journey From Student To Practitioner, Stacey Nordlund May 2012

Closing The Research/Practice Gap: The Journey From Student To Practitioner, Stacey Nordlund

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.


Participating In The Conversation, Maria Otero-Boisvert Dec 2011

Participating In The Conversation, Maria Otero-Boisvert

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.


Collection Development Of Hiv/Aids Information Resources In American Libraries, Joseph G. Andrews Jr Jul 2011

Collection Development Of Hiv/Aids Information Resources In American Libraries, Joseph G. Andrews Jr

School of Information Student Research Journal

HIV/AIDS remains an incurable epidemic in the United States that disproportionately affects men who have sex with men (MSM) and African Americans. Library and information science (LIS) professionals can play a vital role in keeping these higher risk groups informed about preventing HIV/AIDS and living with the disease, through a variety of current information resources that addresses their specific questions. This paper reviews collection development policies proposed by LIS professionals and library agencies since the late 1980s, and evaluates how such policies took higher-risk user groups into consideration. The findings of this paper are that collection development policies have become …


Reaching Escape Velocity And The Purpose Of Slis Student Research Journal, Anthony Bernier Jul 2011

Reaching Escape Velocity And The Purpose Of Slis Student Research Journal, Anthony Bernier

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.


Collaborative Scholarship In Library And Information Science, Suzanne Scott Jul 2011

Collaborative Scholarship In Library And Information Science, Suzanne Scott

School of Information Student Research Journal

No abstract provided.