In the beginning of May I had the opportunity to visit Washington, DC and participate in National Library Legislative Day (NLLD). What a great experience, not only to visit the warmth of the sun, but also to make legislative office visits and tell staff what matters to us and to library users in Oregon. The title [...]
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Next Thursday, July 29th, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and National Archives will hold a hearing on public access to federally funded research. You may remember that last winter the Office of Science and Technology Policy requested public input on the expansion of public access policies, [...]
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Last week at ALA’s 2010 Annual Conference, I had the pleasure of participating in Library Advocacy Day. On Tuesday, June 29th, librarians from all over the country gathered to show legislators the importance of funding libraries, and pointed to key issues facing libraries today. At 11am a Rally in Washington DC’s Upper Senate Park commenced. [...]
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To follow up on the post I made earlier this week, ACTA’s (Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement) text was released yesterday. There’s already a lot of commentary out there on the web. Consensus seems to be that not much has changed. For a good portal to find some of the interesting comments, you might use Michael Geist’s [...]
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Over at the LibraryLaw Blog is a post entitled: Will ACTA end the purchase of foreign titles by libraries? If you haven’t been following ACTA and you’re a foreign language librarian you might take heed! ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is essentially a meeting that was top secret and aims to draft an agreement between countries, [...]
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