THIRD DRAFT: Librarianship and Traditional Cultural Expressions: Nurturing Understanding and Respect
The document below represents the third draft of librarian principles concerning the management and protection of traditional cultural expressions. Once again, feedback is appreciated, either by writing in the comments section or sending an email to crussell [AT] alawash [DOT] org.
Librarianship and Traditional Cultural Expressions: Nuturing Understanding and Respect – Draft 3 (download PDF)
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Posted: June 29th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Comment from LaVerne L. Poussaint
Time July 11, 2009 at 5:36 pm
The link provided below is to an article published in Medical Library Association’s International Cooperation Section’s Spring 2009 newsletter pertaining to the creation of a traditonal knowledge
digital repository in response to India’s repeated appeals to WIPO and WTO
to protect that nation from the machinations of misappropriation of its traditional knowledge in the form of its indigenous medical systems.
The article is deemed appropriately placed here as India’s traditional medical practices, processes, and products can be viewed as other examples of TCE (derived as they were from the ancient Vedas). TKDL may prove to be a valuable guide in ALA’s considerations and deliberations.
http://ics.mlanet.org/newsletter/ICS%20Newsletter%20Spring%202009.pdf