From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 09:54:37 PDT
Message-Id: <a06110416bd7e236df39a@[192.168.0.2]> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:54:37 -0700 From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org> Subject: SLA-SF Public Policy September 28, 2004
Library stuff
Law librarian's achievements speak volumes
Under Shirley Hart David's leadership, Sacramento County's library
has become a model for other law libraries and has been nationally
recognized for its contribution to library science.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/10771644p-11689849c.html
Government
FirstGov launching site to help federal webmasters
The Firstgov.gov team at the General Services Administration on Sept.
29 will launch a portal with information to help federal webmasters
improve their sites.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/27290-1.html
GAO Reports on Progress in Implementing Electronic Records Archives
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04927.pdf
Senate Appropriations Committee Proposes Significant Increases in
Library Funding for Next Year
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=75623
GOVERNOR SIGNS LIBRARY BOND BILL
http://www.cla-net.org/legislation/092304_update.php
Freedom of Information
Know Your [FOIA] Rights
A quickie.
http://www.llrx.com/columns/foia13.htm
Homefront Confidential: How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to
Information and the Public's Right to Know
Prepared by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP).
http://www.rcfp.org/homefrontconfidential/index.html
Release of Clinton and Bush Presidential Papers under Scrutiny
Former President Bill Clinton has said he wants to make 100,000
domestic-policy records available to researchers when his
presidential library opens in Little Rock November 18, but the
decision is actually up to President Bush.
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=76333
Information Commons
The Information Commons: A Policy Report
Authored by former American Library Association President Nancy
Kranich, the report gives an overview of the problem of enclosure,
explains how theories of the commons have been adapted to the
information age, and describes dozens of flourishing information
communities, ranging from Linux designers to the Open Video
Project, from a knitting commons to the OYEZ Supreme Court Multimedia
Archives.
http://fepproject.org/policyreports/infocommons.preview.html
Copyright Advisory Network
A project of ALA. This Web site is a new way for librarians to learn
about copyright and to get help when they have copyright troubles.
The purpose of this site is to encourage librarians to discuss
copyright concerns, and seek feedback and advice from fellow
librarians and copyright specialists. http://www.librarycopyright.net/
Saving the Artistic Orphans
Valuable resources are being lost to students, researchers and
historians because of sweeping changes in copyright law, according to
digital archivists who are suing the government. Brewster Kahle,
founder of the Internet Archive and Rick Prelinger, a film collector,
want permission to digitize these so-called orphan works to create
online libraries for free public access. In a suit filed in March,
the plaintiffs in Kahle v. Ashcroft argue that multiple changes to
copyright law have essentially made it impossible for works to return
to the public domain.
Open Access
Socialized Science
An Editorial in Chemical and Engineering News in response to NIH's
policy change that would make all NIH funded research available for
free to the public (who funds it in the first place with our tax $$)
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/editor/8238edit.html
************Open Access: Implications and Cost Models
On December 1, 2004, SLA will be presenting a virtual seminar on Open
Access. What is Open Access? What are the implications of the
various cost models in the short and long-term? What are the possible
impacts on the scholarly communication network in the long-term? For
details and registration information, go to:
<http://www.sla.org/content/learn/learnmore/distance/virtsem2004/dec1virtsem.cfm>http://www.sla.org/content/learn/learnmore/distance/virtsem2004/dec1virtsem.cfm
SLA Action
**********SLA Supports WIPO Declaration
Four major U.S. library associations today endorsed the Geneva
Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property
Organization. Together, the American Association of Law Libraries,
the American Library Association, the Association of Research
Libraries and the Special Libraries Association represent the views
of over 90,000 librarians and millions of library users throughout
the United States and abroad. For more on the declaration and to add
your signature:
http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/genevadeclaration.html
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entirety, giving credit or not. MM**
-- 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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