Call
to participate in the virtual and live
phases
Second Social Forum of
Information, Documentation, and Libraries
(FSIDyB)
September 7th- 8th, 2006
Mexico City
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PRESENTATION
Dear
Colleagues,
We
are pleased to tell you about the first Social Forum
of Information, Documentation and Libraries (SFIDL)
which was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina August 26-28,
2004 and which met its planning goals and became the
first step for building a professional community that
identifies with the highest social values and political
commitment.
We
can state that our expectations were fulfilled thanks
to the high level of participation by the attendees.
The Organizing Committee publicly thanks each
and every one of the colleagues who formed part of
the Forum: those who sent a paper, those who participated
in the virtual debate, and those who attended the
Foro in Buenos Aires.
There
was an attendance of 150 people who met in Buenos
Aires coming primarily from various countries of Latin
America and the Caribbean. Six round tables were developed
during two days which culminated in the plenary session
on Saturday, August 28. Attendees could also visit
a poster exhibition about human rights, view documentary
videos from an alternative collective, The Fourth
Patio, and participate in a video conference with
Richard Stallman, driving force of free software,
as part of additional activities offered.
The
main outcome was that it raised the need to continue
a permanent forum that has its presence through committes
and working groups which will focus primarily on subjects
like user formation, preservation of heritage documents,
prison libraries, a School of Latin American Library
Science Thought, the impact of OMC/ALCA on libraries,
etc
It has been launched weblogs for these committes and
tables and you can join them to discuss topics mentioned
above.
Our main document which has been cited in several
articles and websites is the Declaration of Buenos
Aires. You can read it clicking in the following link:
