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Hi All, I was recently trying to find testimony from a congressional hearing on this bill:  https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/5009 The Congress.gov website notes that a subcommittee hearing was held on 6/10/2010, but there is no link and there seems to be no record of this ...

Thinking through the responses, it seems to me that there are three different overlapping audiences for conference sustainability information.  1) Sustainable Conference organization and venue 2) Carbon reduction and offsets for conference travel 3) Sustainability considerations for attendees during ...

It looks like upcoming conferences might have good access to bike share services:  Seattle has Lime bike share: https://www.li.me/ Washington D.C. has Capitol bike share: https://www.capitalbikeshare.com/ ------------------------------ Amy Brunvand Associate Librarian University of Utah ...

Here is a post from the National Coalition for History that offers more explanation on the records destruction http://historycoalition.org/2018/10/27/controversy-over-proposed-destruction-of-interior-department-records-explained/ The information says in part: "We were struck in this case by the unfortunate ...

The deadline to comment has been extended to Nov 26. https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/ ------------------------------ Amy Brunvand Associate Librarian University of Utah ------------------------------

I was just looking at the website for ALA Midwinter in Seattle, Washington (#ALAMW19) The good news is, there is a page to address sustainability at the conference: Think Fit @ ALA & Green Efforts | ALA Midwinter 2019 I'm glad to see the page there, but at the same time the information seems kind ...

Amy Brunvand here, I'm the current chair of the Sustainabilty Round Table (SustainRT) and also a GODORT member.  It seems to me that GODORT has  largely  defined itself around the  FDLP  and that creates an image problem, making documents librarianship sound more like cataloging than like public ...

Hellow Sustain RT Community, Check out the new SustainRT homepage on ALA Connect! Home - SustainRT One nifty new feature of the ALA Connect remodel is that you can post questions or discussion topics and they will show up as a threaded discussion in an email just like this one. This seems like ...

"Whereas none of the ALA positions advertised in the most recent five years for the association included a requirement for an ALA accredited degree, but 56% advertised of those identified the ALA-accredited degree as being preferred;" The statement above seems to me like a symptom of a much larger ...