Ask Your Senators to Support the OPEN Government Act of 2007, Urge for a Senate Vote Immediately!
Please contact your Senators and ask them to support the OPEN Government Act of 2007 (S. 849), and to urge Majority Leader Harry Reid or Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to support bringing the bill to the floor in early June. Unfortunately — and ironically, since this is an open government bill — there remains an [...]
During Memorial Day Recess, Contact Your Members of Congress; Tell Them to Support Library Funding!
We anticipate that when Congress returns from the Memorial Day recess, the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittees in both the House and Senate will meet to consider fiscal year (FY) 2008 funding levels for several library programs. The budget resolution passed by Congress provides Education and Related programs with [...]
Senate Confirms Library Professor, Others to National Museum and Library Services Board
On May 25, 2007, Lotsee Patterson, a Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma, was one of the three Presidential nominees confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as members of the National Museum and Library Services Board. The board advises the Institute of Museum and Library Services [...]
The Future of Technology and Libraries
In honor of the retirement of Dr. Fredrick (Rick) Weingarten, the Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) hosted a miniature conference entitled ‘The Future of Technology and Libraries’ on May 16th and 17th. Siva Vaidhyanathan kicked things off with a keynote address on Technofundamentalism. Several panels were led by prominant speakers, discussed [...]
Copyright Video: ‘A Fair(y) Use Tale’
This blog entry is intended for membership educational purposes and does not necessarily reflect the policy positions of the American Library Association.
Eric Faden of Bucknell University compiled a entertaining video about copyright. Entitled ‘A Fair(y) Use Tale’, the video consists of short, one-word segments from various cartoon movies to provide a narrative about copyright and [...]
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