ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy in Washington, D.C. works to ensure a library voice in information policy debates and to promote full and equitable intellectual participation by the public.
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ALA sends letter to NTIA asking for additional broadband funding for public computer centers | Distr
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Contact: Jenni Terry Press Officer ALA Washington Office 202-628-8410 For Immediate Release WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Library Association
ALA OITP Doctorow: "The library of tomorrow should be better than the library of today. The ability to loan our books to more than one person at once is a feature, not a bug. We all know this."
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Cory Doctorow, my former EFF colleague, now novelist and all-around-inspiration, gave a stirring speech entitled How to Destroy the Book in November at a Canadian conference dedicated to literacy. Fittingly, it was spontaneously transcribed and poste...
ALA OITP Peter Brantley on the future of academic libraries.
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N.B.: The following essay on the future roles for academic libraries may appear in a slightly different (and older) version in an ACRL sponsored publication sometime in 2010. (CC-BY-3.0).
ALA OITP An exchange between Hathi Trust and Bob Darnton re: Google Book Search settlement
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An article by Brian Schottlaender from The New York Review of Books, January 14, 2010
ALA OITP OMG
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Happy Christmas. I got a coffee pot. You? If you got a book, it’s likely that it wasn’t made of paper. The succinct title of this Amazon press
ALA OITP Crowdsourcing metadata for our national photo heritage. Awesome.
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Can you help the Library of Congress identify these fabulous Commons photochroms they’ve uploaded to their Mystery Pictures set?
ALA OITP Check out Kevin Smith's informative post about how new publishing business models are beginning to take hold.
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Earlier this month I was able, thanks to the organizing efforts of a colleague, to participate in a phone call with Jeff Shelstad, one of the founders of Flat World Knowledge. I wrote about Flat World ...
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Major focus, however, is building connections, with grants to networks.
ALA OITP Google Policy Fellowship application deadline is extended till Jan 25, 2010. Still time to apply for a spot in the ALA Washington Office!
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We've got some good news for all you students who just finished battling final exams. Unlike those stickler professors of yours, we're offering an extension. That's right - we're pushing the Google Policy ...
ALA OITP A well-rounded article on e-books, libraries, future of reading via CSMonitor.
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As stone tablets gave way the codex, the future of reading is digital – but will the e-reader and the e-book change the nature of how we read?
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CONTACT: Jenni Terry Press Officer (202) 628-8410 For Immediate Release WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of
ALA OITP This is a huge move forward for the U.S. and international copyright policy!
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Contact: Jenni Terry Press Officer ALA Washington Office 202-628-8410 For Immediate Release WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA)
ALA OITP Gates Foundation reiterates library need for broadband cash, E-rate simplification
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says lift the cap on government spending for broadband at schools and libraries. Meanwhile the FCC says its interested in a cable industry proposal that could cut funding to small rural phone services.
ALA OITP The Library Copyright Alliance (including ALA), EFF, Internet Archive, COSLA, and others have filed several comments supporting access to copyrighted works for the visually impaired and others with disabilities.
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A broad swath of American enterprise ranging from major software makers to motion picture and music companies are joining forces to oppose a new international
ALA OITP Reminder! Apply for 2010 Google Policy Fellowship with ALA Washington Office by Dec. 28
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The ALA Washington Office will be participating in the Google Policy Fellowship program for the summer of 2010. Google Policy Fellows work for ten weeks during
