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.
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Justice for George Floyd Resources (see also Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, below)
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." Medium, June 9, 2020.
- Nettles, Arionne. "The Blackivists on Documenting Movements." Chicago Reader, June 16, 2020.
- "Photo Essay: Librarians Join Black Lives Matter Protests." School Library Journal, June 25, 2020.
- Sangwand, T-Kay, et al. "Black Excellence LIS Syllabus." Launched June 12, 2020.
COVID-19 Updates
For previous coverage of the COVID-19 crisis, see our special COVID-19 news alert, our March 2020 News Alert, our April 2020 News Alert and our May 2020 News Alert.
- "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." Public Libraries Online, June 5, 2020.
- Poon, Linda. "Coronavirus Tests the Limits of America’s Public Libraries." Bloomberg CityLab, June 24, 2020.
- "Research Shows Virus Undetectable on Five Highly Circulated Library Materials After Five Days." IMLS, June 22, 2020.
Activism and Social Justice in the Arts
- Bishara, Hakim. “1,712 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.” Hyperallergic, June 5, 2020.
- Di Liscia, Valentina. “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.” ARTnews.Com, June 19, 2020.
- Durón, Maximilíano. “Artists Respond to Coronavirus Pandemic, Ongoing Protests in Massive Outdoor Exhibition Across New York City.” 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.” ARTnews.Com, June 22, 2020.
- Kimmelman, Michael. “There’s No Reason for an Architect to Design a Death Chamber.” The New York Times, June 12, 2020.
- Small, Zachary. “‘Through Art, I Hope That We Can Make One Tulsa.’” 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.” ARTnews.Com, June 11, 2020.
Copyright, Fair Use, Image Rights/Reuse
- "EFF and Durie Tangri Join Forces to Defend Internet Archive’s Digital Library." Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 25, 2020.
- Gormley, Holland. "Copyright in Pride." Library of Congress Copyright Blog, June 25, 2020.
- Lyons, Kim. "The Internet Archive has Ended Its Emergency Library Early." Verge, June 14, 2020.
- Romano, Aja. "A Lawsuit is Threatening Internet Archive - But It's Not as Dire as You Might Have Heard." Vox, June 23, 2020.
- Trendacosta, Katherine. "When the Senate Talks About the 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." IMLS, June 4, 2020.
- "Americans for the Arts Announces $250,000 Gift Establishing teh Jorge and Darlene Pérez Prize in Public Art & Civic Design." Americans for the Arts, June 24, 2020.
- "IMLS Awards $2.7 Million in Support of African American History and Culture." IMLS, June 4, 2020.
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access (IDEA)
- Brown, Jennifer. "Pride Month Resource List." 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." In The Library With The Lead Pipe, June 24, 2020.
- Ferretti, Jennifer. "Building a Critical Culture: How Critical Librarianship Falls Short in the Workplace." Communications in Information Literacy, June 12, 2020.
- Hagelin, Karina. "Moving Towards Healing: A Trauma-Informed Librarianship Primer." ACRLog, June 23, 2020.
- Winn, Sam. "This Disabled Life: Academic Conferencing in COVID Times." 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." ALA News, June 26, 2020.
- Harris, Elizabeth A. "Publishers Sue Internet Archive over Free E-books." New York Times, June 1, 2020.
- "Removal
of Pride Display Causes Controversy."
KPC News Service, June 10, 2020.
- vanden Heuvel, Katrina. "America's 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.” Inside Higher Ed. June 17, 2020.
- “SPARC Debrief on Three Recent Big Deal Cancellations.” SPARC - News, June 9, 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." American Library Association, June 8, 2020.
- ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee. "Video Surveillance in the Library Guidelines." American Library Association, June 8, 2020.
- Feiner, Lauren. "We Don't Know How Protests Are Being Surveilled. Here's Why That's a Problem." CNBC, June 13, 2020.
- Washington, Anne L., and Lauren Rhue. "Pandemic Privacy in the Workplace." Points: Data & Society, June 17, 2020.
- Yoose, Becky, and Erin Berman. "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." Radical AI Podcast, June 10, 2020.
- Espenschied, Dragan. "ArtBase in 2020: A New Beginning Supported by the NEH." Rhizome, June 24, 2020.
- Kirchner, Lauren. "Millions of Americans Depend On Libraries for Internet. Now They're Closed." The Markup, June 25, 2020.
- Kreymer, Ilya. "A New Phase for Webrecorder Project, Conifer and ReplayWeb.page." Webrecorder, June 11, 2020.
- Liberty, Megan N. "A Digital Archive Mines the Depths of Design." Hyperallergic, June 13, 2020.
Workplace
- Andrews, Nicola. "It's Not Imposter Syndrome: Resisting Self-Doubt as Normal for Library Workers." In The Library With The Lead Pipe, June 10, 2020.
- Balzer, Cass. "What's 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." The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 2020.
- Hargreaves, Abby. "An Invisible Threat: Compassion Fatigue in Libraries." Book Riot, June 29, 2020.
- Schwartz, Meredith. "Library
Labor: We Need a National Library Workers Organization."
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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