URGENT: Act now to reform the PATRIOT Act!
Call your member in the House of Representatives and urge her/him to reform the USA PATRIOT Act now! Please ask your representative to co-sponsor the USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009 (H.R. 3845), introduced by Rep. Conyers (MI-14) and others on October 20, 2009.
Mr. Conyers and the other cosponsors should be thanked for introducing [...]
CPSC Issues Rule Regarding Lead Standards; More Guidance To Come for Libraries
As the American Library Association (ALA) has emphasized since first enactment of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), concern for children’s safety is our first priority in providing materials to young patrons. On August 26, 2009, the CPSC’s final rule on children’s products containing lead was released. In the rule, CPSC confirmed [...]
ALA mourns the loss of Senator Edward M. Kennedy
The American Library Association mourns the loss of the great legislator, Edward M. Kennedy. Senator Kennedy was a strong proponent of libraries and worked tirelessly with our nation’s librarians to make sure everyone in this country could get access to quality library services, no matter what type of library or where they were located.
His [...]
FAQs Posted on Know Your Stimulus and Broadband USA
On Wednesday, July 24, the ALA Washington Office hosted a Webinar on the Broadband and Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) to assist participants in the application process. The Webinar focused on two of the three BTOP programs: Public Computing Center and Sustainable Broadband Adoption. The third program is Broadband Infrastructure.
BTOP [...]
Webinar on broadband stimulus funding now available
Yesterday, the ALA Washington Office held an interactive webinar on the broadband stimulus funding programs led by John Windhausen from Telepoly, Chris McLean (former Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service) and Greg Rohde (former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration), now partners in the [...]
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