The meeting will also hear from Paul Gilroy, branch secretary for the library workers' union Unison.

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That isn't to say that Bruce Ennis, lead counsel for a coalition of 20 plaintiffs that included the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Library Association, didn't suffer his share of interruptions.

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French President Jacques Chirac took up the cause, and last month six countries petitioned the European Union to fund an alternative library scanning initiative.

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With a grant of USD34.000 the project "Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: copyrights and libraries" will work with networks of library consortia, mainly in former Soviet Union countries to raise awareness, build capacity, expertise and resources in current copyright issues and identify how they relate to the application of ICTs.

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This can mean more hours studying in the library and fewer gab fests at the student union.

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