Re: SLA-SF: Public Policy news

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From: Deborah Hunt (dhunt@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 22 2004 - 09:13:02 PDT


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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:13:02 -0700
From: Deborah Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Re: SLA-SF: Public Policy news

Dear Michele,
This is very useful to have all this information in one place with
clickable links.
Even if I don't click on all of them, your summaries help me keep
informed and up-to-date.
Thanks for taking the Government Relations Chair position in a new
direction that will keep us all on top of the latest news that
affects us and our profession.
Deb

At 3:48 PM -0700 7/21/04, Michele McGinnis wrote:
>Hi Friends,
>
>As new Government Relations Chair for SLA-SF, I'm experimenting with
>different models of keeping myself and you informed of important
>issues facing special librarians. I'm considering a bi-weekly or
>monthly e-newsletter to be posted on the SF-SLA list. Its current
>conception is in blog format, and it probably wants to be a blog,
>but I'm not ready to take that on yet. I've pulled together a sample
>of news items gleaned from other lists and from the SLA site. In the
>future, I plan to regularly monitor sites and blogs that address
>issues related the major SLA public policy platform including
>copyright, intellectual freedom, access to government information,
>privacy, etc.
>
>If you have a chance, please give me some feedback on this sample
>and on what issues of public policy/government relations would be of
>interest to you.
>
>Thanks, Michele
>
>
>US Patriot Act Survey - deadline today for survey!
>A group of alternative papers will investigate attempts by the US
>government to spy on citizens in libraries using provisions of the
>Patriot Act. This investigative report will appear in as many as 150
>papers this summer. According to Judith Krug, Director, Office of
>Intellectual Freedom, ALA, "the alternative press is seeking
>librarians who have had experience in the recent or distant past in
>which they have been contacted by government entities, formally or
>otherwise, for the purpose of attaining information on library
>users." Librarians can do their part by completing a survey
>conducted by the Library Research Center at the University of
>Illinois at Urbana-Champain. The survey is found at
>http://lrcsurvey.lis.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/qwebcorporate.cgi?idx=JCV473.
>The deadline for completing the survey is July 21, 2004.
>http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=issuesrelatedlinks&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=56583
>
>
>Freedom to Read Protction Act of 2003 was not passed
>This informative summary is from Blaine Daniel, University of
>Tennessee School of Information Sciences student.
>Rep. Bernie Sanders (bernie.house.gov) has recently been engaged in an
>attempt to amend the Patriot Act to remove those portions that allow federal
>authorities to search library and bookstore records. The original bill (HR
>1157 IH - "The Freedom to Read Protection Act of 2003") was, so far as I am
>able to tell (attempting to decode thomas.loc.gov gives me a headache...)
>killed in committee. Recently (8 July 2004) the bill was "re-introduced" as
>an amendment (H.AMDT.652) to H.R. 4754. The amendment was voted down.
>Interestingly, the amendment to the bill passed on first vote. However, it
>appears that the majority party in the House used procedural rules to keep
>the voting open until several members of the House could be persuaded to
>change their votes. The amendment was eventually voted down.
>
>Rep. Sanders' website has a re-posted news article regarding this story,
>here: http://bernie.house.gov/documents/articles/20040712181942.asp
>
>Schwarzenegger names new state librarian
>>From the Sacramento Bee (AP)
>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday named a new state
>librarian to replace Kevin Starr, who stepped down April 1 to become state
>librarian emeritus after 10 years.
>
>Susan Hildreth has more than 30 years' experience as a librarian, most
>recently as chief librarian for the City and County of San Francisco,
>managing 650 employees and a $59 million budget. She currently is president
>of the California Library Association.
>http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/10003221p-10924512c.html
>
>
>Over $14.7 Million to Recruit New Librarians for 21st Century
>The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal
>agency that supports the nation's museums and libraries, has awarded
>$14,790,543 to library schools and library service organizations to
>recruit and educate new librarians to help offset a looming national
>shortage.
>http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/071304-3.htm
>
>Fugitive documents published on the Web are not being preserved
>The Federal Depository Library Program has fallen behind in
>cataloging and preserving access to government documents published
>only on the Web. As a result, public access to those publications is
>spotty at best.
>http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0621/pol-crisis-06-21-04.asp
>
>
>GAO Changes its name
>Effective July 7, 2004, the GAO's legal name became the Government
>Accountability Office. The change, which better reflects the modern
>professional services organization GAO has become, is the most
>visible provision of the GAO Human Capital Reform Act of 2004, Pub.
>L. 108-271, 118 Stat. 811 (2004).
>http://www.gao.gov/about/namechange.html
>
>Public Policy Positions taken by SLA in June 2004
>
>* Faulkner v. National Geographic Society Amicus Brief
> http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/advocacy/AmicusCuriae.cfm
>
>* Joint Statement Regarding Cheney/ Energy Task Force Decision
>http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/advocacy/EnergyTaskForce.cfm
>
>* Libraries Support H.R. 107, Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act
> https://www.sla.org/PDFs/PublicPolicy/HR107Statement.pdf
>
>--
>Michele McGinnis, MSIS
>Research Librarian to Kevin Kelly
>
>149 Amapola
>Pacifica, CA 94044
>650-355-7676
>650-359-9701 fax
>
>mm@kk.org
>www.kk.org
>
>"They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the
>desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the
>revolution, man." --Michael Moore on librarians
>
>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can
>change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
> -- Margaret Mead
>
>
>
>

-- 
Deborah Hunt
Senior Information Specialist
Exploratorium
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San Francisco, CA 94123
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"A woman is like a tea bag; she never knows how strong she is until she's in hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt


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