ACRL Government Relations Committee

  • 1.  Leg. Agenda Items

    Posted Dec 10, 2009 03:21 PM

    Jonathan, Marilyn, and ACRL Government Relations Committee Members,

    Attached are Microsoft Word copies of the two Legislative Agenda

    items Don Frank and I agreed to update. While not too much has actually

    changed since the last update, we did change around some of the text and

    added a link to the Fair Use and Anti-Circumvention document pointing to

    the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for additional information.

    The attached documents are: 1) Government Information and 2) Fair

    Use and Anti-Circumvention.

    Please NOTE: I will be away from e-mail December 11 - January 3,

    hence this early submission of our Legislative Agenda items. It may

    take me a while to get back in touch after I get to work again on

    January 4 because my office plus computer will all be in storage and in

    disarray due to a recarpeting/renovation project afflicting my library.

    This means that when I get back on Jan. 4, I will have a very makeshift

    office of two cardboard boxes on a table and a strange computer that

    will allow me only to get to the very inferior Web-based version of the

    e-mail program that's loaded into my actual office computer. Since I

    expect to have to sift through and delete, literally, hundreds of

    accumulated e-mail messages (no computer at home), it may take me a

    while to respond to any comments, etc. Because of this situation, I am

    happy to give my blessings to any changes or additions made to the

    attached documents by Don Frank (

    authorized by this committee.

    Unfortunately, due to a devastated travel budget, I will be unable

    to attend the Midwinter Conference in Boston in January, so I am

    grateful to be able to at least make a few modest contributions as a

    "virtual" member (thanks, Kara).

    Meanwhile, let me wish everyone a Happy Holiday season!

    Tim

    Tim Dodge

     

    Tim Dodge

    Reference Dept.

    Ralph Brown Draughon Library

    231 Mell St.

    Auburn University, AL 36849-5606

    Tel. (334) 844-1729

    Fax: (334) 844-4461

    E-mail:

    frankd@pdx.edu ) or anyone elsedodgeti@auburn.edu