News Alerts v.5 n.4, April 2019
Advocacy & Public Policy Committee
ARLIS/NA
Advocacy & Public Policy Committee
News Alerts support the committee's mission to monitor governmental activities and social justice issues affecting the professional interests of ARLIS/NA and to keep the ARLIS/NA membership informed. The monthly alerts are intended to be conversation
starters, help members keep up on public policy issues and alert members to new developments.
Previous issues can be found here: https://arlisna.org/news/public-policy-news-alerts.
Art, Activism, & Social Justice
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Durón, Maximilíano. “For
50th Anniversary of Stonewall Rebellion, Public Art Fund Will Show Felix Gonzalez-Torres Billboard.” ARTnews, April 8, 2019.
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Greenberger, Alex. “‘These Prisons Punish for
Profit’: At MoMA Conference, Academics Call on Museum, Board Member to Divest From Private Prisons.” ARTnews, April 28, 2019.
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Greenberger, Alex. “Whitney
Biennial Artists Join Call for Removal of Weapons Manufacturer Warren B. Kanders from Museum Board.” ARTnews, April 29, 2019.
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Lefebvre, Sam. “Rare
Footage of Black Panthers, California Activism Digitized by Oakland Library.” KQED, April 10, 2019.
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Shaw, Anny. “New Banksy Mural
Appears in Support of Extinction Rebellion Protest in London.” The Art Newspaper, April 26, 2019.
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Shaw, Anny. “Turner
Prize Nominees Give 'Voice to the Marginalised’.” The Art Newspaper, May 1, 2019.
Copyright, Fair Dealing, & Fair Use
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Alexander, Julia. "YouTube
CEO Addresses Top Creator Issues Including Copyright Claims and Trending Section." The Verge, April 30, 2019.
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Radin, Sara. "How
a Copyright Loophole Gave Birth to Fashion’s ‘Name and Shame’ Social Media Pastime." Observer, April 30, 2019.
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Temple, Karyn A. "Moving Forward
with the Copyright Office." US Copyright Office blog, March 27, 2019.
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Walker, David. "Court
Reverses Misguided Fair Use Ruling; Restores Order for Photo Copyrights." pdn, April 26, 2019.
Funding
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American Library Association. "Freedom
to Read Foundation Announces Intellectual Freedom Courses and Scholarship Opportunities." ALA Member News, April 19, 2019.
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CBC News. "Province
Slashes Ontario Library Service Funding by 50%." CBC, April 17, 2019.
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Maher, Kevin. "Library Advocates
Deliver." American Libraries, April 12, 2019.
Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information
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City News Service. "Thousands
of San Diegans Banned from City Libraries to Be Reinstated." 10News San Diego, April 9, 2019.
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Hendel, John. "House Democrats'
Net Neutrality Win Likely DOA in Senate But Poised to Become 2020 Issue." Politico, April 10, 2019.
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Holstrom, Ashley. "ALA Releases 2018's Top 11 Banned
Books." Book Riot, April 10, 2019.
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Mastricolo, Patricia. "CBDLF Defends Students'
Right to Read in NJ!" CBLDF.org, April 26, 2019.
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Paranack, Amber. "Breaking: A New ‘News’ Archive!" Headlines
and Heroes Blog, Library of Congress, April 9, 2019.
Open Access
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“Affordable College Textbook
Act Reintroduced in U.S. Congress.” SPARC - News, April 4, 2019.
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Else, Holly. “Elsevier Strikes Its First National Deal with
Large Open-Access Element.” Nature, April 26, 2019.
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Singh Chawla, Dalmeet. “Study Quantifies
the Growing Traction of Open Access.” Physics Today, April 18, 2019.
Privacy
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Billey, Amber. "Just Because We Can, Doesn't Mean We Should: An
Argument for Simplicity and Data Privacy With Name Authority Work in the Linked Data Environment." Journal of Library Metadata, April 2, 2019.
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Hautala, Laura. "What E-Books at
the Library Mean for Your Privacy." CNET, April 8, 2019.
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Lapowsky, Issie. "Tech and Privacy Groups Hate
the Census Citizenship Question." Wired, April 23, 2019.
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OIF Staff. "Libraries Close the Gap
on Unequal Privacy during Choose Privacy Week 2019." Choose Privacy Every Day, April 18, 2019.
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Tufekci, Zeynep. "Think You're Discreet
Online? Think Again." The New York Times, April 21, 2019.
Technology
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Breeding, Marshall. "Library Systems
Report 2019." American Libraries, May 1, 2019.
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Fung, Brian. "5G
is about to Get a Big Boost from Trump and the FCC." Washington Post, April 12, 2019.
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"New
Collaborative Effort to Develop a National Digital Ebooks Platform for Libraries Announced." Digital Public Library of America, April 17, 2019.
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"NYU
Receives Major Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Collaborative Effort Aims to Meet the Challenge of Preserving New Forms of Digital Scholarship." NYU.edu, April 17, 2019.
Workplace
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Carrillo, Armando. "UC
Librarians Conclude Negotiations of Salary Increases and Academic Freedom Protections." Daily Bruin, April 9, 2019.
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Cunningham, Sojourna, Samantha Guss, and Jennifer Stout. "Challenging
the 'Good Fit' Narrative: Creating Inclusive Recruitment Practices in Academic Libraries." Paper presented at ACRL 2019, Cleveland, OH, April 10–13, 2019.
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Lambert, Mark. "Archival Pay
and SAA: Some Modest Proposals." Society of Southwestern Archivists, April 29, 2019.
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Thomas, Camille, Elia Trucks, and H.B. Kouns. "Preparing
Early Career Librarians for Leadership and Management: A Feminist Critique." In the Library With the Lead Pipe, April 17, 2019.
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Torpey, Elka. "Check It out: Projections for
Library Occupations." Career Outlook, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 2019.
This issue of
News Alerts was compiled by Serenity Ibsen, Karly Wildenhaus, Lynora Williams, and Michael Wirtz.
Lynora Williams
Director, Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20005
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