SLA-SF Public Policy, November 2, 2004

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From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 14:02:24 PST 

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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 14:02:24 -0800
From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org>
Subject: SLA-SF Public Policy, November 2, 2004

Sorry I haven't sent out a Public Policy update in a while. Some of
the items are old news, but wanted to include them regardless. This
issue is short - although not for lack of news. I hope to get back on
track once I recover from vacation.

thanks, Michele

Library stuff

All of OCLC's WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web
Librarians may need to prepare themselves for a major increase in
interlibrary loan traffic in the coming months.
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041011-2.shtml

Livermore Library Embarrassed By Mural
It didn't take a nuclear physicist to realize changes were needed
after a $40,000 ceramic mural was unveiled outside the city's new
library and everyone could see the misspelled names of Einstein,
Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and seven other
historical figures.
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=2395577

Government

WASHINGTON STATE GOVERNMENT OPENS DIGITAL ARCHIVES
Birth certificates, elections results -- and much more. Those are among
the things that are now available in what's being called the nation's
first digital archives for a state government.
http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov

NARA prepares for a new era in records management
The numbers are enormous-1 billion military personnel files and 600
million Census Bureau records, to name just two examples. Federal
agencies are producing millions of records each year and are
struggling to manage them.
http://www.gcn.com/23_29/mgmt_edition/27378-1.html

Orwellian or The Police State

Small Town Library Takes On The Feds
WHATCOM COUNTY - The FBI wants to know who checked out a book from a
small library about Osama Bin Laden. But the library isn't giving out
names, saying the government has no business knowing what their
patrons read.
http://www.komotv.com/stories/33363.htm

PUBLISHERS SUE TREASURY DEPARMENT OVER OFAC RULES
The Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly
Publishing division (AAP/PSP), the Association of American University
Presses (AAUP), the PEN American Center (PEN), and Arcade Publishing
filed suit in federal court yesterday against the U.S. Treasury's
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). They want the court to
strike down OFAC regulations requiring publishers and authors to seek
a license from the government to perform routine activities necessary
to domestic publication, such as peer review and editing, of foreign
literature from embargoed countries such as Iran, Cuba, and Sudan.
For links to the relevant OFAC rulings and additional materials,
visit http://aaupnet.org/ofac.

FOIA Decision 2004
The real impact an administration has on the FOIA is on two distinct
areas. These areas are budget priorities and who the attorney general
is.
http://www.llrx.com/columns/foia14.htm

Information Commons

The IFLA position on the Geneva Declaration on the Future of WIPO
http://www.ifla.org/III/clm/CLM-GenevaDeclaration2004.html

California Law on copying "commercial" files?
The state of California passed a law last Tuesday that makes it
illegal for someone to electronically disseminate a commercial
copyrighted work to more than 10 people without including the
sender's email address and the title of the work.
http://www.drmwatch.com/legal/article.php/3414301

  Open Access

*************December 1, 2004 Virtual Learning
Open Access: Implications and Cost Models
December 1, 2004
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm ET
http://www.sla.org/content/learn/learnmore/distance/virtsem2004/dec1virtsem.cfm

SLA Action

SLA Partnership Wins Grant to Study Future of Info Pros
http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/pressroom/pressrelease/2004pressrelease/pr2424.cfm

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-- 
Michele McGinnis, MSIS
Research Librarian to Kevin Kelly

149 Amapola
Pacifica, CA 94044
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"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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