Each year, thousands of refugees flee the oppressive North Korean regime. Today, nearly 30,000 such defectors live in South Korea.[1] Their stories attest to the important role that access to outside ...

As I was gathering books for this column, I saw a title that needed reshelving: The Information-Poor in America, by Thomas Childers (Scarecrow, 1975). Yes, it was written a whole library career ago, ...

From Dedicated Terminals and Dial-Up Service to the Power of the Enterprise Web Until the late 1960s, school districts had no access to computing power, electronic teaching resources or centralized ...

The International Day for Universal Access to Information was proclaimed on 15 October 2019 at the 74th UN General Assembly to be held on 28 September. The global celebrations in Oxford, United ...

Keep up with knowledge needs in developing countries: Libraries must be cognisant of the amount of illiteracy still prevalent in some communities among developing countries and therefore come up with ...

UNESCO advocates for access to information as a fundamental freedom and a key pillar in building inclusive knowledge societies. The organization promotes rights and values outlined in the Article 19 ...

Charles Byekwaso uses a computer that has audio. Many people with seeing impairments are unable to access much-needed information on radio, TV and newspapers. Photo by Stephen Otage In 2006, when the ...

Easy access to quality medical care is considered a benchmark standard of a first world nation, distinguishing it from developing countries. In such healthcare systems, high-quality treatment is ...

This Standard applies to everyone who accesses RIT Information Resources, whether affiliated with RIT or not, whether on campus or from remote locations, including but not limited to students, faculty ...