“Alternative Spring Break” with OITP
This week, two students from the University of Michigan’s School of Information joined the ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy for an “Alternative Spring Break.”
Alina Johnson and Timothy Vollmer, who share similar interests in policy work, took part in several meetings here in the Washington Office, but also on Capitol Hill; for example, a meeting [...]
Speak Up for Libraries
To help library advocates “speak up” about the library message, the ALA Washington Office is offering a series of new resources in the coming months, including webinars, podcasts, online classes and materials to make your federal grassroots lobbying experience as easy and painless as possible. Join us for our first “Speaking Up!” webinar on Thursday, [...]
Host the Sunshine Week Webcast @ your library!
For the past several years, ALA has participated in a national Sunshine Week dialogue and webcast on access to government information, organized by OpenTheGovernment.org. This year’s webcast – Government Secrecy: Censoring Your Right to Know – will take place on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 1:00 – 2:30pm (EDT), and features a panel on privacy in [...]
ALA Washington Office Debuts Legislative Scorecard 2007
ALA members often inquire as to how their Members of Congress voted on issues of particular importance to libraries. In response, the ALA Washington Office has created the Legislative Scorecard.
Covering votes from 2007, the scorecard lists several key pieces of federal library-related legislation that ALA supported, and places a check mark beside the names of [...]
MacArthur grant to bolster public interest, advocacy in digital copyright
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WASHINGTON — The American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) announces that its major digital copyright programs and initiatives to strengthen the public access to information, especially in libraries, will be supported by a generous grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The grant of $385,000 will cover [...]
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