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District Dispatch · 20h ago

Colombian Delegates Visit ALA Washington Office

Last week, Marijke Visser (Assistant Director, ALA Office for Information Technology Policy) and I had the pleasure of hosting a delegation of librarians from Colombia. These librarians are participants in the International Visitor Leadership Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department … Continue read
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District Dispatch · 20h ago

Advocacy Spotlight: Brandy Hamilton Uses Passion for Documentaries and Storytelling to Support Libraries

Brandy Hamilton is the public policy chair for the North Carolina Library Association and the regional library manager at the East Regional Library in Knightdale, Wake County, NC. Hamilton coordinated the North Carolina group of the 2012 National Library Legislative … Continue reading →
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District Dispatch · 20h ago

Funding Cuts Got You Down? 10 Insider Tactics for Impacting the Funding Debate (for the Better!)

Are you dealing with funding cuts in your community? At your school? Are you frustrated with council members, legislators, administrators and others who do not understand the value you bring to the community? In this online session you’ll learn 10 … Continue reading →
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District Dispatch · 1d ago

New ALA Report Explores Challenges of Equitable Access to Digital Content

The American Library Association (ALA) today released a new report examining critical issues underlying equitable access to digital content through our nation’s libraries. In the report, titled “E-content: The Digital Dialogue,” authors explore an unprecedented and splintered landscape in which seve
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District Dispatch · 3d ago

Petition the White House to Open Access to taxpayer-funded research

Who: You! And anyone you know who supports libraries and supports increasing access to information – especially research that you (the public) helped fund. What: A petition is posted at “We the People” asking the White House to require the published results of taxpayer-funded research be made availa
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District Dispatch · 3d ago

Ebooks: Promising New Conversations

By Molly Raphael Earlier this week, I led a four-person ALA delegation to New York to meet with Hachette Book Group and four national organizations that represent authors. Meeting with Hachette was a priority, as we were unable to meet with them on our last delegation trip to New York. But most of o
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District Dispatch · 1w ago

Thanking a Friend

Often the first step in preparing a retirement celebration is to ask colleagues and friends to share stories about the person retiring. It’s not often that you receive more stories than can possibly be incorporated into a two minute speech … Continue reading →
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District Dispatch · 1w ago

ALA Advocates for Public Access to Federal Research at Brookings Institution Panel

On Wednesday, Corey Williams of the American Library Association’s Washington Office participated in the research panel “Knowledge and Innovation: Understanding Public Access to Research,” hosted by the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation in Washington, D.C. The discussion focus
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District Dispatch · 1W ago

Library as Publisher: Your Feedback Needed

As part of the work of ALA’s Digital Content and Libraries Working Group of ALA (which is tackling our many ebook-related issues), we are seeking some focused feedback before the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim next month. If you are experimenting with in the creation, publication, and preserv
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District Dispatch · 1W ago

ALA to Participate in Technology Research Panel

The American Library Association (ALA) has been selected to participate in “Knowledge and Innovation: Understanding Public Access to Research,” a research panel that will be hosted by the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, in Washington, D.C. from 2:
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