2021 ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE -- SESSIONS SPONSORED BY OR AFFILIATED WITH THE PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVOCACY OFFICE
Get Funding, Connect Your Community: FCC's Emergency Connectivity Fund & What We Know Today (Amber Gregory, Bob Bocher, and Marijke Visser, panelists)
https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=891498&query=Emergency
How Libraries Facilitate Book Discovery and Cross-media Engagement: News from Immersive Media & Books 2020 (Alan Inouye, panelist)
https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=901180&query=Immersive
RUSA President's Program: Access for All: Perspectives on Accessibility, Saturday, 10:30 am Central Time (Alan Inouye, panelist)
https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=891439&query=accessibility
How PLA and Libraries Promote Upskilling and Workforce Development (Larra Clark, panelist)
https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=891502&query=Upskilling
Pandemic Pivot: Innovative Ideas for Library Small Business Development Programs (Megan Janicki, moderator/panelist)
https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=872120&query=Pivot
Libraries Build Business and Economic Resilience (Megan Janicki, moderator)
https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=872121&query=Janicki
Libraries Build Business Networking Mixer, Monday, 4:00 pm Central Time (Megan Janicki, moderator)
https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=910908&query=Janicki
In addition, note two general conference sessions:
Realms of Possibility: A Live Conversation with ALA President Julius C. Jefferson, Jr., and IMLS Director R. Crosby Kemper III
https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=913908&query=Kemper
Closing General Session featuring President Barack Obama and Lonnie Bunch III
https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=911556&query=Obama
PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVOCACY UPDATES
ALA announces new suite of resources to help libraries apply for the $7 billion in the Emergency Connectivity Fund. Application window opens soon!!
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/ECF
Local libraries key infrastructure for communities: The federal Build America's Libraries Act would help fund needed improvements at Sno-Isle Libraries. Op-ed in the The Everett Herald (Washington state). Still need to get the word out on BALA.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-local-libraries-key-infrastructure-for-communities/
ALA joined a broad array of stakeholders in urging Congressional appropriators to support President Biden's FY22 budget request for education and related requests.
https://cef.org/wp-content/uploads/302b-Letter.LHHS_.-FY-2022-final-with-signers.pdf
ALA has joined over 50 organizations calling on the Biden Administration to appoint a full FCC immediately.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/demandprogress/letters/Letter-5th-FCC-Commissioner.pdf
ALA Executive Director Tracie Hall meets in-person with staff based in Washington, D.C. This is the first in-person staff meeting for the Public Policy and Advocacy Office since March 2020!
https://twitter.com/TracieDHall1/status/1405147192319524868
NEWS AND ARTICLES
Agencies may begin returning feds to the office in July, White House orders
https://www.federaltimes.com/management/2021/06/10/agencies-may-begin-returning-feds-to-the-office-in-july-white-house-orders/?utm_source=Partnership+for+Public+Service+emails&utm_campaign=75aebfb39e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_6_08_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3aed0f55fc-75aebfb39e-213503653
Alan S. Inouye, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Relations
American Library Association
1615 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-403-8218 ▪ ainouye@alawash.org; ala.org/wo
Follow Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlanSInouye
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