POLICY/ADVOCACY UPDATES
Upcoming: Join us for the Rally for the Right to Read, this Thursday evening at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago:
https://twitter.com/UABookBans/status/1668649528168177666
Upcoming programming for the PPA Office at the ALA Annual Conference:
Changing the Narrative: ALA Policy Corps Takes On Book Banners
https://cdmcd.co/pEBELQ
Navigate State & Federal Policy Obstacles for Transformation
https://2023alaannual.eventscribe.net/index.asp?presTarget=2354710
Leverage Federal Funds to Advance Digital Equity in Your Community Update
https://cdmcd.co/LdXdY3
Future of Digital Collections in a Post-Pandemic Public Library
https://2023alaannual.eventscribe.net/index.asp?presTarget=2354703
Fostering Economic Opportunity and Advancement with Innovative Programming
https://2023alaannual.eventscribe.net/index.asp?presTarget=2356735
Libraries as "Spokes" in an Entrepreneurial "Hub": Lessons From the SBA Community Navigator Grant
https://cdmcd.co/rMJM4B
E-rate Innovations: Fostering Access to Underserved Communities
https://cdmcd.co/WkEk9b
https://cdmcd.co/Ykvkaw
ALA applauds the Biden-Harris Administration's steps announced today to address the rise in book bans and other attacks on LGBTQIA+ Americans:
https://twitter.com/AlanSInouye/status/1666893199338528779
--> Thank the Biden Administration: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=20763
ALA submitted comments on funding programs under the Digital Equity Act to the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration: https://www.regulations.gov/comment/NTIA-2023-0002-0193
PPA Deputy Director Megan Janicki visits Laramie County (Wyoming) Library System:
https://twitter.com/megan_janicki/status/1668805495036215296
and presents at the New Jersey Library Association annual conference:
https://twitter.com/njstatelibrary/status/1664377944125452288
"Free people must always read freely." - ALA Executive Director Tracie D. Hall at the signing of Illinois legislation that will prevent libraries from banning or restricting access to books.
https://twitter.com/ALALibrary/status/1668378163036946433
Alan Inouye attended Free Expression Awards in D.C. at which Brooklyn Public Library was recognized.
https://twitter.com/AlanSInouye/status/1667119922374123521
ARTICLES & NEWS
FTRF has filed an amicus curiae brief in a lawsuit filed by several citizens of Llano County, Texas, challenging the decision to remove a large number of books from the Llano County Library shelves.
https://twitter.com/FTRF/status/1664986977047924737
FTRF has joined a broad coalition to challenge Arkansas Act 372, a law that would restrict access to books in bookstores and libraries and violate the First Amendment rights of the state's reading public.
https://twitter.com/FTRF/status/1664708908282269705
D.C. Library Association held its annual banquet. ALA Past-president Julius Jefferson received a Lifetime Achievement Award:
https://twitter.com/AlanSInouye/status/1670132914141425666
Amy Lappin and Karen Schneider have been appointed by the ALA Executive Board to fill two newly created board seats.
https://twitter.com/ALALibrary/status/1666545842142998528
ALA President-elect Emily Drabinski stops at the Judy Blume rest area in New Jersey:
https://twitter.com/edrabinski/status/1663934984745263105
Alan S. Inouye, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Relations and Interim Associate Executive Director
American Library Association
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