ACRL Government Relations Committee

Hello GRC Committee:

My thanks for everyone's work on our draft 2022 ACRL Legislative Agenda. I have made additional changes, tried to improve internal consistency from section to section, and attempted to provide a stronger advocacy voice.

With this message, I'm asking Kara to move this along through the systems for review, improvement, and additional questions for our committee. This will allow us to complete any additional work for a final version. 

Thanks for everyone's patience as other work delayed my attention to this important work.

Best,

Erik Nordberg

Chair, ACRL Government Relations Committee

Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee at Martin

Thanks, Erik, for sending this over. I'll take a quick read tomorrow and add in any comments/suggestions then send on to my colleagues at ALA Public Policy and Advocacy in Washington, D.C. I don't know their workload at the moment but expect we're likely to hear back within a week or two with notes about any red flags, omissions, etc. Then you can reconcile our suggestions/comments and send me a clean draft, which I'll have a colleague copy edit.

More to come,

Kara

Hello GRC Committee:

My thanks for everyone's work on our draft 2022 ACRL Legislative Agenda. I have made additional changes, tried to improve internal consistency from section to section, and attempted to provide a stronger advocacy voice.

With this message, I'm asking Kara to move this along through the systems for review, improvement, and additional questions for our committee. This will allow us to complete any additional work for a final version. 

Thanks for everyone's patience as other work delayed my attention to this important work.

Best,

Erik Nordberg

Chair, ACRL Government Relations Committee

Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee at Martin

Thanks, Erik, for sending this over. I'll take a quick read tomorrow and add in any comments/suggestions then send on to my colleagues at ALA Public Policy and Advocacy in Washington, D.C. I don't know their workload at the moment but expect we're likely to hear back within a week or two with notes about any red flags, omissions, etc. Then you can reconcile our suggestions/comments and send me a clean draft, which I'll have a colleague copy edit.

More to come,

Kara

Hello GRC Committee:

My thanks for everyone's work on our draft 2022 ACRL Legislative Agenda. I have made additional changes, tried to improve internal consistency from section to section, and attempted to provide a stronger advocacy voice.

With this message, I'm asking Kara to move this along through the systems for review, improvement, and additional questions for our committee. This will allow us to complete any additional work for a final version. 

Thanks for everyone's patience as other work delayed my attention to this important work.

Best,

Erik Nordberg

Chair, ACRL Government Relations Committee

Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee at Martin

I'm putting the finishing touches on the updated document.  We received a great deal of input from ALA/ACRL, so there is a lot to incorporate.  Hoping to have the final version posted here on Monday.

Erik

Thanks, Erik, for sending this over. I'll take a quick read tomorrow and add in any comments/suggestions then send on to my colleagues at ALA Public Policy and Advocacy in Washington, D.C. I don't know their workload at the moment but expect we're likely to hear back within a week or two with notes about any red flags, omissions, etc. Then you can reconcile our suggestions/comments and send me a clean draft, which I'll have a colleague copy edit.

More to come,

Kara

Hello GRC Committee:

My thanks for everyone's work on our draft 2022 ACRL Legislative Agenda. I have made additional changes, tried to improve internal consistency from section to section, and attempted to provide a stronger advocacy voice.

With this message, I'm asking Kara to move this along through the systems for review, improvement, and additional questions for our committee. This will allow us to complete any additional work for a final version. 

Thanks for everyone's patience as other work delayed my attention to this important work.

Best,

Erik Nordberg

Chair, ACRL Government Relations Committee

Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee at Martin

And Carrie, to clarify next steps, once you all have final text, I'll send to my colleague to copy edit for grammar, spelling, etc. You'll review all of those to ensure no meaning was changed, then send it to the ACRL Board for review and vote. So, it is still a few weeks away from having an approved and public document. Hope this helps.

I'm putting the finishing touches on the updated document.  We received a great deal of input from ALA/ACRL, so there is a lot to incorporate.  Hoping to have the final version posted here on Monday.

Erik

Thanks, Erik, for sending this over. I'll take a quick read tomorrow and add in any comments/suggestions then send on to my colleagues at ALA Public Policy and Advocacy in Washington, D.C. I don't know their workload at the moment but expect we're likely to hear back within a week or two with notes about any red flags, omissions, etc. Then you can reconcile our suggestions/comments and send me a clean draft, which I'll have a colleague copy edit.

More to come,

Kara

Hello GRC Committee:

My thanks for everyone's work on our draft 2022 ACRL Legislative Agenda. I have made additional changes, tried to improve internal consistency from section to section, and attempted to provide a stronger advocacy voice.

With this message, I'm asking Kara to move this along through the systems for review, improvement, and additional questions for our committee. This will allow us to complete any additional work for a final version. 

Thanks for everyone's patience as other work delayed my attention to this important work.

Best,

Erik Nordberg

Chair, ACRL Government Relations Committee

Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee at Martin