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Davita Vance-Cooks – New Public Printer of the United States 21 Aug 2013 | 11:39 pm
The American Library Association (ALA) is glad to welcome Davita Vance-Cooks as the new Public Printer of the United States! She took the oath of office this morning as she was sworn in by Judge Gera...
What’s next for libraries? E-Rate, bandwidth, benchmarks and capacity goals 21 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
At the forefront of our minds right now are the many questions posed in the E-rate Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and how they may affect libraries. This notice, with over 600 questions, is the ...
Jamie Schleser Appointed as OITP Research Associate 15 Aug 2013 | 07:36 pm
Jamie Schleser Today, the American Library Association (ALA) announces the appointment of American University doctoral student Jamie Schleser as Research Associate for the organization’s Office for I...
Meaningful Use: Libraries connecting patrons to ACA resources (Free Webinar) 14 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
The following is a free webinar being offered by WebJunction. This session has limited space so please register quickly if interested. As libraries look ahead to the October 1 open enrollment date fo...
E-rate: 900 questions and several late nights later 13 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
Yes, it’s true. With this post, we now have a verifiable E-rate streak established in our District Dispatches (here and here, if you’d like to play along). The Federal Communications Commission’s (FC...
Diverse Contributors Revisit CIPA: 10 Years Later 9 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
Recently the Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) and Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) hosted day-and-a-half symposium to look at how libraries have implemented the requirements of the...
What did YOU do during summer vacation? 5 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
U.S. Captiol by Jeffrey via flickr. Congress is now in a five-week recess. Some pundits are asking “recess from what?” because this 113th Congress has passed even fewer bills in its first months betw...
Copyright Hearings Continue on Capitol Hill 2 Aug 2013 | 07:52 pm
The House Judiciary Committee continues to move forward with hearings addressing Chairman Bob Goodlatte’s (R-VA) call for a comprehensive review of U.S. copyright law. Within the past 10 days the Hous...
2013: The Summer of E-rate 2 Aug 2013 | 12:01 am
E-rate, always someplace on the ALA policy agenda, is now way up at the top, thanks to the ConnectED initiative announced by President Obama last month. A few weeks ago, Linda Lord, the state libraria...
Stretching into the future with a national dialogue on public libraries 30 Jul 2013 | 08:27 pm
Aspen, Colorado. Photo by Ontario Travel Bureau There has been a lot of talk about the future of libraries. Anyone attending the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, for instance, could find about 100 s...
