FYI France: Front National (reprise) and some good new books etc. In case any of you think that the issue of the Front National and libraries -- extremist right - wing mayors removing left - wing publications from library shelves -- is moot or resolved or going away in France (see FYI France issues of April 15, June 15): it could happen elsewhere (think of your own town, wherever you are ) -- September 8, 1997 08:13 GMT -- Agence France Presse Headline: Far-right mayor fined over racist comments "Catherine Megret of the far - right National Front (NF) was found guilty over the comments about racial equality made to the German daily Berliner Zeitung... Megret told the paper that blacks are genetically different to whites while immigrants -- who she said are often synonymous with crime -- should have their benefits cut and given to French people. 'We are going to withdraw all public funding for immigrants, and give the money to French people," she said. 'You'll see how quickly they disappear, those who are only here for the money.'" A friend points out that news like this sometimes is reassuring, in that it proves that all the jerks in the world aren't just in your own town... On November 10 the French fined Mayor Megret 50,000 francs for what she said, and gave her a 3 month suspended jail sentence, for "incitation a` la discrimination racial" / "complicite' de provocation publique a' la discrimination a` l'e'gard d'un groupe de personnes en raison de leur origine ou de leur appartenance ou de leur non-appartenance a` une ethnie ou a` une nation de'termine'e". I am not sure that the US even has such a law, and I don't think that it could be enforced against a public official, legally, even if we did. But then aren't we lucky not to need it: Mme. Megret's husband runs the Front National, which polled 15% of the popular vote in the last French national election -- a problem which the US does not have either, at the moment. I wonder what we would be doing here legally if we did? So, on the theory that extremists of any type relish the scrutiny of public opinion -- and that public opinion well - informed is better than public opinion ill - informed -- a favor to both may be found in the new listings of no less than 7 Valence libraries, which now appear at, http://www.fyifrance.com/fyi1plib.htm -- if you can't find it on the shelves at Vitrolles or Marignane or Orange, in France's imperilled South, head over to nearby Valence. And the Front National's own site, complete with their Mein Kampf written by Monsieur Megret, "L^ŇAlternative nationale" -- fulltext online at http://www.front-nat.fr/livremegret/lmegret.htm -- and sound files of Jean - Marie Le Pen speeches to which you can listen online (see / hear "Ine'galite' des Races", "Racisme", "De l'antiracisme" and "Message a` la jeunesse"), all is available at http://www.front-nat.fr -- sad de'ja vu for those of you who remember or have an interest in the European 1930's. --oOo-- One of the harsher realities in the latest library funding crises, on both sides of the Atlantic, is the demise of international acquisitions in library budgets: to FIFO and LIFO we now add MEFO -- most expensive / first out -- or at least I can't find too many books about French digital information and Internet developments, nowadays, outside of France. So in hopes, as always, of spurring interest -- among the French for things French, and among the non - French for things "foreign" (sometimes I think the "crises" are not financial but more a periodic isolationist trend) -- here is a list: some new books and even videos hopefully of interest, for law and business and medicine and Java and LANs and policy and other things -- Websites in a later issue -- what the French / one example of the non - Anglo world (the customers!) are reading -- TITRE Big Browser, l'impact d'Internet sur les entreprises EDITE A Boulogne : Informatique professionnelle, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * 96 p. ; 30cm TITRES LIES Fait partie de : L'informatique professionnelle VOL.148,novembre 1996 AUTEUR Michel Bonjour, Gilles Falquet, Jacques Guyot et Andre Le Grand TITRE Java : de l'esprit a la methode : distribution d'applications sur Internet EDITE A Paris : Albany [N.Y.] : Bonn [etc.] : International Thomson publ. France, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * XIX-442 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm ISBN 2-84180-134-9 TITRE Le marche de l'internet : avenir ou illusions? EDITE A Paris : Mediaspouvoirs, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * 195 p. : ill. ; 24cm TITRES LIES Fait partie de : Mediaspouvoirs VOL.43-44, 3e-4e trimestres 1996 AUTEUR Andrieu, Olivier * Lafont, Denis TITRE Internet et l'entreprise EDITION 2e tirage EDITE A Paris : Eyrolles, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * XVIII-395 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 23 cm ISBN 2-212-08906-6 AUTEUR Bauche, Gilles TITRE Tout savoir sur Internet EDITE A [Paris] : Arlea, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * 249 p. ; 21 cm ISBN 2-86959-294-9 AUTEUR Guedon, Jean-Claude TITRE La planete cyber : Internet et cyberespace EDITE A [Paris] : Gallimard, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * 128 p. : ill. en noir et en coul., couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm COLLECTION (Decouvertes Gallimard : techniques ; 280) ISBN 2-07-053349-2 AUTEUR Masse, Alain TITRE Internet : la revolution est pour demain EDITE A Paris : les Ed. du Telephone, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * 335 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 22 cm ISBN 2-909879-22-4 AUTEUR Nora, Dominique TITRE Les conquerants du cybermonde EDITION Nouv. ed. rev. EDITE A [Paris] : Gallimard, 1997 SUPPORT LIVRE * 530 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm COLLECTION (Folio . Actuel ; 52) ISBN 2-07-032946-1 AUTEUR Toutain, Laurent TITRE Reseaux locaux et Internet : des protocoles a l'interconnexion EDITE A Paris : Hermes, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * XVIII-526 p. : ill. ; 24 cm COLLECTION (Reseaux et telecommunications) ISBN 2-86601-567-3 AUTEUR Trifot, Alain TITRE Extranet / Alain Trifot EDITE A Paris : Hermes, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * 123 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm COLLECTION (Documentation multimedia) ISBN 2-86601-574-6 AUTEUR Virga. pseud. TITRE Le grand dictionnaire Marabout de la micro-informatique et de l'Internet EDITE A Alleur (Belg): Marabout; [Paris]: [diff. Hachette], 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * 736 p. ; 20 cm ISBN 2-501-02524-5 AUTEUR Bensoussan, Alain TITRE Internet, aspects juridique EDITE A Paris : Hermes, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * 127 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm ISBN 2-86601-543-6 AUTEUR Cassagne, Herve TITRE Internet pour les medecins : decouverte, utilisations, sites medicaux EDITE A Paris (11 Bd. de Sebastopol, 75001) : Ed. medicales specialisees, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * X-165 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 21 cm COLLECTION (Collection Medistrategies) ISBN 2-901227-10-4 AUTEUR Fraser, Bruno ; realisateur TITRE Internet EDITE A [s.l.] : L. Regimbald : Sodinart international, 1996 SUPPORT VIDEO * 1 videocassette V.H.S. 1/2 pouce (70 mn) : couleur SECAM, sonore COLLECTION (Connaitre et pratiquer) AUTRES AUTEURS Regimbald, Lucien ; commentateur AUTEUR MaranGraphics [adapt. franc,aise par Michel Dumontier, Robert Velogier] TITRE Internet et le World Wide Web, c'est simple EDITE A Paris : F1RST, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * V-213 p.: ill.en coul., couv.ill.en coul. ; 26 cm COLLECTION (Collection 3-D visuel de F1RST) ISBN 2-87691-335-6 TITRE Securite' Internet pour l'entreprise / Terry Bernstein, Anish B. Bhimani, Eugene Schultz et Carol A. Siegel ; trad. de Catherine Reclus EDITE A Paris ; Albany [N.Y.] ; Bonn [etc.] : International Thomson publ. France ; [New York] : Wiley, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * XII-425 p. : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm TITRES LIES Titre original : Internet security for business ISBN 2-84180-133-0 AUTEUR Knobel, Marc TITRE Racisme et neo-nazisme sur le reseau Internet : Un rapport du Centre Wiesenthal EDITE A Paris : Centre Simon Wiesenthal, 1997 SUPPORT LIVRE * 100 p. AUTEUR Reboul, Pierre TITRE Le commerce electronique : techniques et enjeux EDITE A Paris : Eyrolles, 1997 SUPPORT LIVRE * ISBN 2-212-08963-5 AUTEUR Piette-Coudol, Thierry TITRE Internet et la loi EDITE A Paris : Dalloz, 1996 SUPPORT LIVRE * ISBN 2-247-02589-7 AUTEUR Colombain, Jerome TITRE La Cyberculture EDITE A Toulouse : Editions Milan, 1997 SUPPORT LIVRE * ISBN 2-84113-525-X AUTEUR Haard, Peter [trad. de l'allemand] TITRE Amour, sexe et Internet EDITEUR (Paris : Micro application, c1996) TITRE Le livre : la fin d'un regne / Fabrice Piault. EDITEUR [Paris] : Stock, c1995. EDITION Series title: Au vif. ISBN 2-234-04475-8 AUTEUR Nicole Tortello, Pascal Lointier. TITRE Internet pour les juristes EDITEUR Paris : Dalloz, 1996. AUTEUR Guisnel, Jean TITRE Guerres dans le cyberespace : services secrets et Internet EDITION Nouv. ed. rev. et augm. EDITEUR Paris : la Decouverte, 1997 AUTEUR Bryan, Adrian TITRE Internet et la securite du systeme informatique de l'entreprise EDITION [Nouv. ed.] EDITEUR Clichy - Espace Clichy 21, 68 rue Villeneuve, 92587 Cedex : Learning tree international, 1996 AUTEUR Havinga, Gerry TITRE Internet pour les applications de l'entreprise: travaux pratiques EDITION [Nouv. ed.] EDITEUR Clichy - Espace Clichy 21, 68 rue Villeneuve, 92587 Cedex: Learning tree international, 1996 AUTEUR Hoeltgen, Dominique TITRE Les marchands de l'Internet EDITEUR Paris : les Ed. du Telephone, 1996 (Many thanks once again to Patrick Bazin and the able staff of the BMLyon for their excellent selection, formatting, and provision of one of the easier - to - reach - and - use international library resources to be found anywhere: http://www.bm-lyon.fr/ -- also telnet://134.214.24.3/ . Many -- not all -- of the citations which appear here are from BMLyon records, and I have used their formatting to present the others.) No I don't know where you are going to find the books and videos themselves if you are not in France -- that is getting increasingly hard these days. It really shouldn't be. This is not a time of the "franc fort". French publishers should be pushing. Online access is getting easier and cheaper, by the way: hint! -- to those French publishers. France and the French do not seem to be energized to sell overseas at the moment, and "overseas" doesn't have the interest in France and the French that they once had: something needs to be done, if we are not all to retreat further into our separate little isolationist shells. Try your library -- push your selector, and selectors push that committee and that budget -- and your local bookstore and be sure to check, and push, the amazing new http://www.amazon.com and of course its rivals as well. These are good things to read: know what your international customer is reading -- it's an international world. --oOo-- FYI France (sm)(tm) e-journal ISSN 1071 - 5916 * | FYI France (sm)(tm) is a monthly electronic journal, | published since 1992 as a small - scale, personal, | experiment, in the creation of large - scale | "information overload", by Jack Kessler. Any material / \ written by me which appears in FYI France may be ----- copied and used by anyone for any good purpose, so // \\ long as, a) they give me credit and show my e - mail --------- address and, b) it isn't going to make them money: if // \\ if it is going to make them money, they must get my permission in advance, and share some of the money which they get with me. Use of material written by others requires their permission. 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