PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVOCACY UPDATES
--> Support bipartisan legislation from Sens. Bernie Sanders & Bill Cassidy to enhance federal US Dept of Education statistics on school & academic libraries.
https://twitter.com/LibraryPolicy/status/1737518740588179767
--> Hope to see you at next month's ALA conference LibLearnX in Baltimore
https://2024.alaliblearnx.org/registration
--> ALA is closed from December 23 through January 1
ALA submitted comments to the FCC on its net neutrality proceeding
https://twitter.com/LibraryPolicy/status/1735750385736814790
ALA filed an amicus brief on the Hachette Book Group, et al. v. Internet Archive lawsuit. This submission is in support of neither party and filed with the Association of Research Libraries.
https://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/copyright/copyrightcases/23-1260%20Amici%20Brief.pdf
ALA has been working closely with Congress on the newly-introduced bipartisan workforce bill that adds public libraries as eligible one-stop operators
https://twitter.com/LibraryPolicy/status/1733575605348643035
New ALA Report Maps Increasingly Complex Digital Public Library Ecosystem, authored by Professors Rachel Noorda and Kathi Berens under the auspices of the ALA Public Policy & Advocacy Office
https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2023/12/new-ala-report-maps-increasingly-complex-digital-public-library-ecosystem
ALA to Launch New Digital Inclusion Working Group for Library Workers
https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2023/12/ala-launch-new-digital-inclusion-working-group-library-workers
Op-ed "Censorship and the case for institutional literacy" published in The Hill by ALA PPA Senior Fellow Chris Harris
https://twitter.com/ALALibrary/status/1737203399932731458
https://thehill.com/opinion/4367768-censorship-and-the-case-for-institutional-literacy/
ALA endorses the Fight Book Bans Act from Representatives Maxwell Frost, Frederica Wilson, and Jamie Raskin to provide funding to help school districts in their defense of book banning and censorship efforts.
https://twitter.com/LibraryPolicy/status/1732416142042701906
"Using Libraries to Enhance Entrepreneurship" by PPA staffer Jim Takeshita, America's SBDC blog
https://americassbdc.org/how-libraries-unleash-entrepreneurial-potential/
I had the pleasure of speaking at a webinar on government relations hosted by the American Association of Law Libraries
https://twitter.com/AlanSInouye/status/1731768780483678264
Fun fact from my travels, just before becoming prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi was the minister for communication and broadcasting
https://twitter.com/AlanSInouye/status/1737792998614929525
... and the Delhi Public Library: https://twitter.com/AlanSInouye/status/1738180306337968386
Alan S. Inouye, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Relations; Interim Associate Executive Director, Public Policy and Advocacy; and Interim Chief Advancement Officer
American Library Association
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