Government Relations Committee
Meeting Minutes
November 8, 2017 10 am (ET)
Via Conference Call
Present: Kara Malenfant (Staff Liaison), Lee LaFleur (Board Liaison), Joyce Ogburn, Peter Kraus, Jeremy Darrington, Kevin Baggett (vice-chair), Nicholas Lamb, Barbara Petersohn (chair).
1. Approval of draft minutes from 9/11/2017 by voice vote
2. National Library Legislative Day announcement and plan for reviewing.
This will be announced next week. Due date for applications revised to December 19, 2017 and committee decisions on January 16, 2018.
3. Legislative toolkit proposal Barbara and Peter will work on draft document and get committee review.
4. Legislative Agenda Committee Pre-work (Updates)
The committee discussed what at this point should go into the agenda and what from the 2017 list should be removed or revised. Then members of the committee divided up the work of reviewing and updating information about the issues on the proposed list to bring back to the group to determine a final list.
Potential Issues List
Nick DACA
Joyce Copyright including
Exceptions (108)
Updates on Register of Copyrights Office
Jeremy Privacy and Government surveillance
Kevin Net Neutrality
[Kara will keep us posted] Open data -- OPEN Government Data Act, etc.
Joyce Access to Federally Funded Research / FASTR
Barbara Federal funding impacting libraries including LSTA, IMLS, and impact on other agencies and legislation -- Census and BLS, DOE, HEA
HEA Higher Education Act [combined into Budget/Funding]
TBD* House Committee on Education and the Workforce
Peter
Changes to regulations (NSF, NEH?) Impacting Grant Applications [added]
TBD
Revisions to Depository Library Program [added]
5. The meeting was adjourned at 10:58 am
Submitted by Barbara Petersohn
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