Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts v.6 n.6, June 2020
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 start conversations, help members keep up on public policy issues and alert members to new developments.
Previous issues can be found here: https://arlisna.org/news/advocacy-public-policy-news-alerts<https://arlisna.org/news/public-policy-news-alerts>.
Justice for George Floyd Resources (see also Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, below)
* Library Freedom Project. "It’s Not Enough to Say Black Lives Matter — Libraries Must Divest from the Police<https://medium.com/@libraryfreedom/its-not-enough-to-say-black-lives-matter-libraries-must-divest-from-the-police-2ab4adea58f1>." Medium, June 9, 2020.
* Nettles, Arionne. "The Blackivists on Documenting Movements<https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/blackivists-archivists/Content?oid=80694245>." Chicago Reader, June 16, 2020.
* "Photo Essay: Librarians Join Black Lives Matter Protests.<https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=librarians-join-black-lives-matter-protests>" School Library Journal, June 25, 2020.
* Sangwand, T-Kay, et al. "Black Excellence LIS Syllabus<https://bit.ly/blacklis>." Launched June 12, 2020.
COVID-19 Updates
For previous coverage of the COVID-19 crisis, see our special COVID-19 news alert<https://arlisna.org/news/advocacy-public-policy-news-alerts/2023-advocacy-and-public-policy-committee-news-alert-special-issue-march-2020>, our March 2020 News Alert<https://arlisna.org/news/advocacy-public-policy-news-alerts/2022-advocacy-and-public-policy-committee-news-alert-march-2020>, our April 2020 News Alert<https://arlisna.org/news/advocacy-public-policy-news-alerts/2053-advocacy-and-public-policy-committee-news-alert-april-2020> and our May 2020 News Alert<https://arlisna.org/news/advocacy-public-policy-news-alerts/2058-advocacy-and-public-policy-committee-news-alert-may-2020>.
* "COVID-19 Impact on Archival Workers Survey Launched.<https://awefund.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/covid-19-impact-on-archival-workers-survey-launched/>" Archival Workers Emergency Fund Organizing Committee, June 4, 2020.
* Lloyd, Patrick. "Prioritizing Staff Mental Health When Reopening<http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2020/06/prioritizing-staff-mental-health-when-reopening/>." Public Libraries Online, June 5, 2020.
* Poon, Linda. "Coronavirus Tests the Limits of America’s Public Libraries<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/how-coronavirus-is-changing-public-libraries>." Bloomberg CityLab, June 24, 2020.
* "Research Shows Virus Undetectable on Five Highly Circulated Library Materials After Five Days<https://www.imls.gov/news/research-shows-virus-undetectable-five-highly-circulated-library-materials-after-three-days>." IMLS, June 22, 2020.
Activism and Social Justice in the Arts
* Bishara, Hakim. “1,712 Confederate Monuments Remain Standing in United States<https://hyperallergic.com/572825/1712-confederate-monuments-remain-standing-in-united-states/>.” Hyperallergic, June 24, 2020.
* Di Liscia, Valentina. “Cultural Institutions Heed Calls to #OpenYourLobby to Black Lives Matter Protesters<https://hyperallergic.com/568977/cultural-institutions-open-lobby-to-protesters/>.” Hyperallergic, June 5, 2020.
* Di Liscia, Valentina. “Historical Painting Is Altered to Show Most Declaration of Independence Signatories Were Enslavers<https://hyperallergic.com/572035/historical-painting-is-altered-to-show-most-declaration-of-independence-signatories-were-enslavers/>.” Hyperallergic, June 18, 2020.
* Durón, Maximilíano. “Artists Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, and Renee Cox Called for Aunt Jemima’s Liberation Years Ago<https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/betye-saar-faith-ringgold-renee-cox-aunt-jemima-1202691661/>.” ARTnews.Com, June 19, 2020.
* Durón, Maximilíano. “Artists Respond to Coronavirus Pandemic, Ongoing Protests in Massive Outdoor Exhibition Across New York City<https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/public-art-fund-art-on-the-grid-exhibition-1202692848/>.” ARTnews.Com, June 29, 2020.
* Greenberger, Alex. “Roosevelt Statue Controversy, Explained: Why a New York Museum Removed a Monument to a Former U.S. President<https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/roosevelt-statue-controversy-explained-natural-history-museum-1202691894/>.” ARTnews.Com, June 22, 2020.
* Kimmelman, Michael. “There’s No Reason for an Architect to Design a Death Chamber<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/arts/design/architects-prison-death-chamber.html>.” The New York Times, June 12, 2020.
* Small, Zachary. “‘Through Art, I Hope That We Can Make One Tulsa<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/arts/design/tulsa-greenwood-artists.html>.’” The New York Times, June 26, 2020.
* Solomon, Tessa, and Claire Selvin. “Toppled and Removed Monuments: A Continually Updated Guide to Statues and the Black Lives Matter Protests<https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/monuments-black-lives-matter-guide-1202690845/>.” ARTnews.Com, June 11, 2020.
Copyright, Fair Use, Image Rights/Reuse
* "EFF and Durie Tangri Join Forces to Defend Internet Archive’s Digital Library<https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-and-durie-tangri-join-forces-defend-internet-archives-digital-library>." Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 25, 2020.
* Gormley, Holland. "Copyright in Pride<https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2020/06/copyright-in-pride/>." Library of Congress Copyright Blog, June 25, 2020.
* Lyons, Kim. "The Internet Archive has Ended Its Emergency Library Early.<https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/14/21290902/internet-archive-emergency-library-lawsuit>" Verge, June 14, 2020.
* Romano, Aja. "A Lawsuit is Threatening Internet Archive - But It's Not as Dire as You Might Have Heard.<https://www.vox.com/2020/6/23/21293875/internet-archive-website-lawsuit-open-library-wayback-machine-controversy-copyright>" Vox, June 23, 2020.
* Trendacosta, Katherine. "When the Senate Talks About the Internet, Note Who They Leave Out<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/when-senate-talks-about-internet-note-who-they-leave-out>." Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 2, 2020.
Funding
* "$1.7 Million in Grants to Strengthen Native American, Native Hawaiian Museum Services<https://www.imls.gov/news/17-million-grants-strengthen-native-american-native-hawaiian-museum-services>." IMLS, June 4, 2020.
* "Americans for the Arts Announces $250,000 Gift Establishing teh Jorge and Darlene Pérez Prize in Public Art & Civic Design<https://www.americansforthearts.org/news-room/press-releases/americans-for-the-arts-announces-250000-gift-establishing-the-jorge-and-darlene-perez-prize-in>." Americans for the Arts, June 24, 2020.
* "IMLS Awards $2.7 Million in Support of African American History and Culture<https://www.imls.gov/news/imls-awards-27-million-support-african-american-history-and-culture>." IMLS, June 4, 2020.
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access (IDEA)
* Brown, Jennifer. "Pride Month Resource List<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nYfpd5tfQQErfaBfpnhsAo91aHitXlYGTI6LBdv9ZYQ/edit>." We Here, June 19, 2020.
* Fernández, Natalia and Williams, Beth F. "Creating a Library Wide Culture and Environment to Support MLIS Students of Color: The Diversity Scholars Program at Oregon State University Libraries<http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2020/diversity-scholars-program/>." In The Library With The Lead Pipe, June 24, 2020.
* Ferretti, Jennifer. "Building a Critical Culture: How Critical Librarianship Falls Short in the Workplace<https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2020.14.1.10>." Communications in Information Literacy, June 12, 2020.
* Hagelin, Karina. "Moving Towards Healing: A Trauma-Informed Librarianship Primer.<https://acrlog.org/2020/06/23/moving-towards-healing-a-trauma-informed-librarianship-primer/>" ACRLog, June 23, 2020.
* Winn, Sam. "This Disabled Life: Academic Conferencing in COVID Times<https://medium.com/on-archivy/this-disabled-life-academic-conferencing-in-covid-times-2b48637ba1b7>." Medium, June 14, 2020.
Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information
* "ALA Executive Director Tracie D. Hall Says Dismantling Racism in Library and Information Services is Overdue.<http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/06/ala-executive-director-tracie-d-hall-says-dismantling-racism-library-and>" ALA News, June 26, 2020.
* Harris, Elizabeth A. "Publishers Sue Internet Archive over Free E-books<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/books/internet-archive-emergency-library-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Books>." New York Times, June 1, 2020.
* "Removal of Pride Display Causes Controversy<https://www.kpcnews.com/thestar/article_27b9a0cf-b3a1-58fb-8c94-b179d580f976.html>." KPC News Service, June 10, 2020.
* vanden Heuvel, Katrina. "America's Digital Divide is an Emergency<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/23/americas-digital-divide-is-an-emergency/>." Washington Post, June 23, 2020.
Open Access
* McKenzie, Lindsay. “University of California System Strikes Landmark Open-Access Deal with Springer Nature<https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/17/university-california-system-strikes-landmark-open-access-deal-springer-nature>.” Inside Higher Ed. June 17, 2020.
* “SPARC Debrief on Three Recent Big Deal Cancellations<https://sparcopen.org/news/2020/sparc-debrief-on-three-recent-big-deal-cancellations/>.” SPARC - News, June 9, 2020.
* “SPARC Releases Update to Landscape Analysis and Accompanying Interactive Website<https://sparcopen.org/news/2020/sparc-releases-update-to-landscape-analysis-and-accompanying-interactive-website/>.” SPARC - News, June 22, 2020.
Privacy
* ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee. "Guidelines on Contact Tracing, Health Checks, and Library Users' Privacy<http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/guidelines/pandemic>." American Library Association, June 8, 2020.
* ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee. "Video Surveillance in the Library Guidelines<http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/guidelines/videosurveillance>." American Library Association, June 8, 2020.
* Feiner, Lauren. "We Don't Know How Protests Are Being Surveilled. Here's Why That's a Problem<https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/13/researchers-politicians-call-for-transparency-in-protest-surveillance.html>." CNBC, June 13, 2020.
* Washington, Anne L., and Lauren Rhue. "Pandemic Privacy in the Workplace.<https://points.datasociety.net/pandemic-privacy-in-the-workplace-a3cb92baffc>" Points: Data & Society, June 17, 2020.
* Yoose, Becky, and Erin Berman. "The Privacy Perils of Contact Tracing in Libraries<https://chooseprivacyeveryday.org/the-privacy-perils-of-contact-tracing-in-libraries/>." Choose Privacy Every Day, June 5, 2020.
Technology
* "Data as Protest: Data for Black Lives with Yeshi Milner.<https://www.radicalai.org/e13-yeshi-milner>" Radical AI Podcast, June 10, 2020.
* Espenschied, Dragan. "ArtBase in 2020: A New Beginning Supported by the NEH.<https://rhizome.org/editorial/2020/jun/24/artbase-in-2020/>" Rhizome, June 24, 2020.
* Kirchner, Lauren. "Millions of Americans Depend On Libraries for Internet. Now They're Closed.<https://themarkup.org/coronavirus/2020/06/25/millions-of-americans-depend-on-libraries-for-internet-now-theyre-closed>" The Markup, June 25, 2020.
* Kreymer, Ilya. "A New Phase for Webrecorder Project, Conifer and ReplayWeb.page<https://webrecorder.net/2020/06/11/webrecorder-conifer-and-replayweb-page.html>." Webrecorder, June 11, 2020.
* Liberty, Megan N. "A Digital Archive Mines the Depths of Design.<https://hyperallergic.com/569742/a-digital-archive-mines-the-depth-of-design/>" Hyperallergic, June 13, 2020.
Workplace
* Andrews, Nicola. "It's Not Imposter Syndrome: Resisting Self-Doubt as Normal for Library Workers<http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2020/its-not-imposter-syndrome/>." In The Library With The Lead Pipe, June 10, 2020.
* Balzer, Cass. "What's Lost in a Furlough<https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/whats-lost-in-a-furlough/>." American Libraries, June 5, 2020.
* Dean, Mensah M. "Black Employees at the Free Library Are Throwing the Book at Management over Racism, Safety, and Pay Equity<https://www.inquirer.com/news/free-library-philadelphia-racism-black-employees-siobhan-reardon-coronavirus-20200626.html>." The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 2020.
* Hargreaves, Abby. "An Invisible Threat: Compassion Fatigue in Libraries<https://bookriot.com/compassion-fatigue-in-libraries/>." Book Riot, June 29, 2020.
* Schwartz, Meredith. "Library Labor: We Need a National Library Workers Organization<https://www.libraryjournal.com?detailStory=Library-Labor-Editorial-covid-19>." Library Journal, June 1, 2020
This issue of News Alerts was compiled by Amy Furness, Sarah Hamerman, Vaughan Hennen, Serenity Ibsen, Karly Wildenhaus, Lynora Williams, and Michael Wirtz.
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