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CPSR Newsletter Summer 1997

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Coyle's Information Highway handbook:
A Practical File on the New Information Order
Chicago, American Library Association, 1997; 297p.

by Karen Coyle

CPSR News Volume 15, Number 3: Summer 1997

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From the Information Society to the Information Economy, to the policy questions surrounding intellectual property, censorship and privacy, and to the all-important question of universal access, this book provides background information on the social impact of our travels along the information highway. Based around a series of essays by Karen Coyle, the book exposes the major tensions and issues that are arising as our communications and business transactions move from analog to digital. Included for each topic area are excerpts from key documents that have shaped the debate: the 1993 "Agenda for Action" which defined the National Information Infrastructure; the Department of Commerce "White Paper" on copyright; the Benton Foundation on universal service; Voter's Telecommunications Watch on the Communications Decency Act.

Written for the American Library Association, the book also addresses the role of libraries in relation to the "new information order." As our only institution with the express purpose of making information available equitably and without prejudice, the library is without a doubt the cornerstone of intellectual freedom and how it fares in this time of change will have a great impact on the future of democracy in our nation.

Table of Contents (partial)

  1. The New Information Society
  2. The Promise of the Information Highway
    • Serving the Community: A Public-Interest View of the National Information Infrastructure (Executive Summary & Principles) Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
  3. Stakeholders and the Information Marketplace
    • Cyberspace and the American Dream: Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age (Excerpts) Progress and Freedom Foundation
  4. Copyright in the Digital Age
    • Intellectual Property and the National Infrastructure: the Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights (Executive Summary) U.S. Department of Commerce
    • Taking On the Green Paper on Copyright: The Concerned Parties Karen Coyle
  5. Privacy and Intellectual Freedom in the Digital Age
    • Why We Made PFPfone, and Why You Need It Philip R. Zimmermann
    • Privacy in Cyberspace: Rules of the Road for the Information Superhighway Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
  6. Censors Take On the Net
    • Access to Electronic Information, Services, and Networks: an Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights American Library Association.
  7. Accessing the Digital Universe
    • Universal Service and the Information Highway Benton Foundation
    • Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications (Summary) Center for Information Revolution Analyses-RAND

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