From: Lapachet, Jaye (Jhl@cpdb.com)
Date: Tue Aug 24 2004 - 12:47:02 PDT
Subject: RE: SLA-SF: Public Policy News August 24, 2004 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:47:02 -0700 Message-ID: <33F5C292AD72904792A8069A11221E48033FF1B8@mail2000.cpdb-nt.com> From: "Lapachet, Jaye" <Jhl@cpdb.com>
This is a great newsletter.
I am curious about the US Archivist issue. I keep hearing little blurbs,
but nothing definitive. Does anyone know if this issue been resolved?
Jaye
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From: SLA-SF@exploratorium.edu [mailto:SLA-SF@exploratorium.edu] On
Behalf Of Michele McGinnis
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:36 AM
To: SLA-SF@exploratorium.edu
Subject: SLA-SF: Public Policy News August 24, 2004
Hey Ya'll,
I'm just back from an unexpected, 2 week trip to Holland for my
partner's mom's funeral. Some of these stories are a bit dated, but
newsworthy nonetheless. I haven't yet had the chance to craft a
newsletter the way I'd like, but I'm hoping to be able begin that
process with the next issue. I'm trying to settle on a way of organizing
the content (if it wants to be organized - i'm not sure yet).
I hope this is useful.
Thanks, Michele
At Hearings, Senator Wants Reason For Archivist's Removal
Historian Allen Weinstein sailed through a July 22 hearing in the
Senate on his controversial nomination to be the ninth Archivist of the
United States. However, signaling a potential political battle over
what was designed to be a nonpolitical position, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI)
revealed that a recent exchange of letters suggests that John Carlin's
announced resignation was not voluntary.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA441045?display=breakingNews
ALA welcomes Department of Justice decision to rescind destruction
request
The American Library Association (ALA) welcomed the Department of
Justice's decision to rescind its request that the Government Printing
Office Superintendent of Documents instruct depository libraries to
destroy all copies of five Department of Justice publications addressing
forfeiture. The Justice Department claimed that the documents are
"training materials and other materials that the Department of Justice
staff did not feel were appropriate for external use." ALA disagreed
with this categorization of the public documents, two of which are texts
of federal statutes, and with the instruction to destroy them. ALA
trusts that there will be no repetition of such unjustified instructions
to destroy government information.
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=news&template=/ContentManagement
/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=72299
Open access to US govt work urged
A US House of Representatives committee has recommended that the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide free access to all research
it funds and asked the NIH to submit a plan by December 1, 2004 for how
to implement the new policy in fiscal year 2005.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040721/01
IMLS Seeks Comments on Impact of Museum and Library Services Analysis
The reauthorization of the Museum and Library Services Act creates new
authority for IMLS to carry out and publish analyses of the impact of
museum and library services. IMLS is developing a plan to address the
requirements of the statute. As a first step, IMLS is requesting public
comment to identify national needs for, trends in, and impacts of museum
and library service.
http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/current/071604.htm
Statement on the Renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act from the Society of
American Archivists
http://www.archivists.org/statements/patriotact.asp
Government using data aggregators - like Lexis Nexis - for surveillance
work
The government is increasingly using corporations to do its surveillance
work, allowing it to get around restrictions that protect the privacy
and civil liberties of Americans, according to a report released Monday
by the American Civil Liberties Union.
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,64492,00.html
Digital Media Consumer's Rights Act
(From Lawrence Lessig's blog on August 10, 2004)
Out of concern that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
went too far in restricting fair use in the digital era, I have drafted
and introduced along with John Doolittle of California H.R. 107, the
Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act. Among other objectives, the bill
would confirm that a person would not be deemed to have illegally
"circumvented" technical protection measures guarding access to
copyrighted works under Section 1201 of the DMCA as long as he or she
had
no intent to infringe the copyright in the work. Our bill also embodies
the Supreme Court's Betamax standard to insulate from liability hardware
and software that is capable of substantial noninfringing uses. We also
create a broad scientific research exemption to the DMCA to address the
"Felton" circumstance. (Posted by Rick Boucher)
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002084.shtml
US National Archives Aims to Create Permanent Digital Records
The U.S. National Archives this week awarded competitive contracts worth
$20 million to create a system for permanently storing digital
electronic records.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=626F6587-D67C-48E7-A798FAA85
B073BC9
The unexpected future of Open Access publishing
With the advent of the Internet and online publishing, the notion has
arisen that access to the worlds research publications could be made
available to one and all for free, presumably by shifting the costs to
other places in the value chain and disintermediating publishers, a
circumstance called Open Access (OA) publishing.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/esposito/
September 11 Project
On Saturday, September 11th, 2004, people across the nation will go to
public spaces to participate collectively and think creatively about our
country, our government, and our media. With public libraries as host,
The September Project will help facilitate talks and roundtables, public
forums, and performances in towns and cities across the US.
http://www.theseptemberproject.org/forlibraries.htm
Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society for Information Science &
Technology
What:
2004 LACASIS FALL WORKSHOP
Balancing Access, Privacy and Security in Your Organization
Friday, October 1, 2004
Kellogg West Conference Center
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, California
http://www.lacasis.org
-- Michele McGinnis, MSIS Research Librarian to Kevin Kelly149 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
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