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National conference
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Public Policy Committee Meeting, 2001
Brief discussion of NCLIS. Roger announced that the final assessment report
on
its proposed closure, "Comprehensive Assessment of Public Information
Dissemination, June 2000 - March 2001," is now available at
http://www.nclis.gov/govt/assess/assess.html.
Information on the NCLIS
study of the planned closure of NTIS undertaken in the
October 1999 - March
2000 timeframe is available at
"Preliminary Assessment of NTIS Closure." The
Comprehensive Assessment of
Public Information Dissemination that NCLIS is
presently undertaking
incorporates the next stage of the NTIS study.
"Comments On The Draft NCLIS Report And Legislation"
ALA Midwinter
Meeting, Washington, DC
January 13, 2001
By Mary Alice Baish
AALL
Acting Washington Affairs Representative
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/aallwash/so11301.html
American Association
of Law Libraries, Washington Affairs Office
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/aallwash/index.html
We discussed ways for ARLIS to deal with UCITA, how to work with local
chapters
and affiliated organizations at the state level. Discussed
the
changes in enforcement of copyright and trademark in photographs of
architecture, and considered possibilities for 2002 session proposals.
Discussed status of Committee website: Barbara has Katy Poole's files from
the
former Committee site; she and I will review them and the rough draft I
started
last year, and get this done very soon. Yale can host the site.
Upcoming events are the IFLA conference in Boston, August 16-17 (some kind of
ARLIS session planned?); NINCH meeting in Eugene, Oregon, Nov. 19, on
policy-making and copyright (Christine Sundt will attend?); and NINCH Town
Hall
meeting to be held at 2002 ARLIS/NA-VRA conference in St. Louis. David
Green of
NINCH is expected to attend the ARLIS/NA conference this Tuesday,
4/3; we hope to hear more about their plans and theme at that time. The
Committee intends to prepare a plenary session proposal for St. Louis;
possible
invited speakers include Ann Okersen from Yale and Lesley Ellen
Harris
(Canada-based copyright lawyer and editor of Copyright & New
Media Law
Newsletter, http://www.copyrightlaws.com/); James suggested
Barbara
Hoffman (couldn't remember her name at the time; former CAA counsel
and editor
of Exploiting Images and Image Collections in the New Media: Gold
Mine or Legal
Minefield? (London: Kluwer Law International, 1999)), and
Thomas Krens or some
other representative of the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation.