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Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts v.6 n.9, September 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 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/advocacy-public-policy-news-alerts<https://arlisna.org/news/public-policy-news-alerts>.

New! Check out the APPC publication "Best Practices in Art Information Job Recruitment<https://www.arlisna.org/images/researchreports/ARLISNA_Report_Best_Practices_in_Art_Information_Job_Recruitment_2020.pdf>," September 2020.

COVID-19 Updates

  *   Anonymous. "Take It from Library Employees: Reopening Isn't Safe.<https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2020/9/29/take-library-employees-reopening-isnt-safe/>" The Chicago Maroon, September 28, 2020.
  *   Mineo, Liz. "Curating the Experience of Black America in the Age of Pandemic<https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/documenting-the-lives-of-black-americans-in-the-age-of-covid/>." Harvard Gazette, September 10, 2020.
  *   Peet, Lisa. "Budgeting for the New Normal: Libraries Respond to COVID-19 Funding Constraints.<https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=budgeting-for-the-new-normal-libraries-respond-to-covid-19-funding-constraints&utm_source=Marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=top5>" Library Journal, September 24, 2020.

Activism and Social Justice in the Arts

  *   Bishara, Hakim. “Dozens of Arab Artists Boycott UAE for Normalization Deal With Israeli Government<https://hyperallergic.com/588922/uae-israel-normalization-open-letter-boycot/>.” Hyperallergic, September 22, 2020.
  *   Durón, Maximilíano. “Artist-Run Organization For Freedoms Joins Forces with Top Artists, Curators for 2020 Election Initiative<https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/for-freedoms-awakening-2020-project-1234570489/>.” ARTnews.Com, September 10, 2020.
  *   Liscia, Valentina Di. “An Artist Turned a Subway Station Into a Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg<https://hyperallergic.com/589614/an-artist-turned-a-subway-station-into-a-tribute-to-ruth-bader-ginsburg/>.” Hyperallergic, September 21, 2020.
  *   Méheut, Constant, and Antonella Francini. “France’s Colonial Legacy Is Being Judged in Trial Over African Art<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/arts/design/france-african-art-trial.html>.” The New York Times, September 30, 2020.
  *   Mendelson, Zoe. “Feminists Take Over Federal Building in Mexico City and Use Painting as a Weapon<https://hyperallergic.com/587487/femicide-protest-national-human-rights-commission-mexico/>.” Hyperallergic, September 10, 2020.
  *   Sharp, Sarah Rose. “An Orwell-Inspired Billboard Project Considers the State of US Politics<https://hyperallergic.com/590719/ministry-of-truth-1984-2020-billboards/>.” Hyperallergic, September 28, 2020.

Copyright, Fair Use, Image Rights/Reuse

  *   Gormley, Holland. "What I Wish They Taught Me about Copyright in Art School<https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2020/09/what-i-wish-they-taught-me-about-copyright-in-art-school/>." Library of Congress Copyright Blog, September 1, 2020.
  *   Ratajkowski, Emily. "Buying Myself Back: When does a Model Own Her Own Image?<https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html>" The Cut, September 15, 2020.

Funding

  *   "American Libraries and Museums Awarded $13.8 Million in IMLS CARES Act Grants<https://www.imls.gov/news/american-libraries-and-museums-awarded-138-million-imls-cares-act-grants>." IMLS, September 24, 2020.
  *   "Editorial: Read the Room<https://www.bupipedream.com/opinions/118094/auto-draft-427/>." Pipe Dream, October 1, 2020.
  *   "IMLS, Six Regional Museum Associations Join Together to Build Digital Capacity of Small Museums Across America<https://www.imls.gov/news/imls-six-regional-museum-associations-join-together-build-digital-capacity-small-museums-across>." IMLS, September 28, 2020.
  *   "To Rebuild and Reimagine the United States Post-Pandemic, We Must Put Creative Workers to Work<https://www.americansforthearts.org/news-room/arts-mobilization-center/creative-workers-to-work>." Americans for the Arts, September 14, 2020.

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access (IDEA)

  *   Campbell-Jenson, Allison. "Building Anew<https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2020/09/building-anew/>." Libraries Continuum, September 7, 2020.
  *   Dawsey, Josh and Jeff Stein. "White House Directs Federal Agencies to Cancel Race-Related Training Sessions It Calls 'Un-American Propaganda<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/04/white-house-racial-sensitivity-training/>.'" Washington Post, September 5, 2020.
  *   Graham, Kashif Andrew. "Nashville Librarians in Support of Black Lives Matter.<https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/features/article/21143252/nashville-librarians-in-support-of-black-lives-matter>" Nashville Scene, September 9, 2020.
  *   Halperin, Jennie Rose. "The Library Commons: An Imagination and an Invocation.<http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2020/the-library-commons/>" In the Library with the Lead Pipe, September 2, 2020.
  *   Hosoi, Mihoko, Gwen Evans and Nancy S. Kirkpatrick. "Creating Diversity in Libraries: Management Perspectives<https://journals.tdl.org/llm/index.php/llm/article/view/7446>." Library Leadership & Management, v. 34, n. 4.

Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information

  *   "Banned Book Week 2020 Goes Virtual As Threats to Intellectual Freedom Continue.<http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2020/09/banned-books-week-2020-goes-virtual-threats-intellectual-freedom-continue>" ALA Member News, September 15, 2020.
  *   Batch, Kristen. "Built by E-Rate: A Case Study of Two-Tribally Owned Fiber Networks and the Libraries in Making it Happen.<http://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/telecom/erate/Built_by_E-Rate_WEB_090420.pdf>" ALA Policy Perspectives, Issue 8, September 2020.
  *   Inouye, Alan. "Libraries Provide a Lifeline through Equitable Access to Tech<https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2020/09/libraries-provide-lifeline-through-equitable-access-tech>." State Tech, September 25, 2020.
  *   Italie, Hillel. "Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale among 100 Most Challenged Books in U.S. in the Past Decade<https://www.cbc.ca/books/margaret-atwood-s-the-handmaid-s-tale-among-100-most-challenged-books-in-u-s-in-the-past-decade-1.5741950>." CBC.ca, September 28, 2020.
  *   Ringrose, Katelyn. "Libraries and Re-entry: The Importance of Public Spaces, Technology and Community to Formerly Incarcerated Patrons<http://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/tools/Libraries%26Reentry_WEB_090620%20%282%29.pdf>" ALA Policy Perspectives, Issue 7, September 2020.

Open Access

  *   Brainard, Jeffrey. “Dozens of Scientific Journals Have Vanished from the Internet, and No One Preserved Them<https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/dozens-scientific-journals-have-vanished-internet-and-no-one-preserved-them>.” Science, September 8, 2020.
  *   Mallapaty, Smriti. “India Pushes Bold ‘One Nation, One Subscription’ Journal-Access Plan<https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02708-4>.” Nature, September 30, 2020.
  *   “Unsub Gives Libraries Powerful Evidence to Walk Away from Big Deals<https://sparcopen.org/news/2020/unsub-gives-libraries-powerful-evidence-to-walk-away-from-big-deals/>.” SPARC, September 2, 2020.

Privacy

  *   Cropley, Maty. "Dragging AI: Teaching Teens to Resist Facial Recognition Software.<https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2020/09/01/dragging-ai-facial-recognition-software/>" American Libraries, September 1, 2020.
  *   Dressler, Virginia. "Working Privacy into Practice<https://chooseprivacyeveryday.org/working-privacy-into-practice>." Choose Privacy Every Day, September 15, 2020.
  *   Kraus, Rachel. "The Future of Anti-Surveillance Fashion Is Bright (Because the World Is Going to Hell)<https://mashable.com/article/anti-surveillance-masks/>." Mashable, September 10, 2020.
  *   Sankin, Aaron, and Surya Mattu. "The High Privacy Cost of a 'Free' Website<https://themarkup.org/blacklight/2020/09/22/blacklight-tracking-advertisers-digital-privacy-sensitive-websites>." The Markup, September 22, 2020.
  *   Tufekci, Zeynep. "The Pandemic Is No Excuse to Surveil Students<https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/09/pandemic-no-excuse-colleges-surveil-students/616015/>." The Atlantic, September 4, 2020.


Technology

  *   Bustillos, Maria. "Publishers are Taking the Internet to Court.<https://www.thenation.com/article/society/publishers-are-taking-the-internet-to-court/>" The Nation, September 10, 2020.
  *   Proffitt, Merilee. "Libraries Think They Are Notable: Using WorldCat Holdings Data to Fill Gaps in Wikipedia.<https://hangingtogether.org/?p=8222>" OCLC Hanging Together, September 9, 2020.
  *   Rosen, Ellen. "Beyond the Pandemic, Libraries Look Towards a New Era.<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/business/libraries-pandemic-future.html>" New York Times, September 24, 2020.
  *   Steward, Emily. "Give Everybody the Internet<https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/9/10/21426810/internet-access-covid-19-chattanooga-municipal-broadband-fcc>." Recode, September 10, 2020.
  *   Sturkey, William. "On the Books: Machine Learning Jim Crow.<https://www.aaihs.org/on-the-books-machine-learning-jim-crow/>" Black Perspectives, September 11, 2020.

Workplace

  *   Carrigan, Margaret. "With Unemployment at an Historic High, America’s Art Workers Band Together<https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/with-unemployment-on-the-rise-art-workers-unionise>." The Art Newspaper, September 4, 2020.
  *   Henninger, Ean, Adena Brons, Chloe Riley, and Crystal Yin. "Factors Associated with the Prevalence of Precarious Positions in Canadian Libraries: Statistical Analysis of a National Job Board<https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip29783>." Evidence Based Library & Information Practice v. 15, n. 3 (September 15, 2020): 78–102.
  *   Petersen, Anne Helen. "Vocational Awe<https://annehelen.substack.com/p/vocational-awe>." Culture Study, September 6, 2020.
  *   Small, Zachary. "The Hard-Hit Arts Sector Is Facing a Brain Drain as Ambitious Workers Seek Greener Pastures<https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-brain-drain-1907518>." Artnet News, September 15, 2020.

This issue of News Alerts was compiled by Sarah Hamerman, Serenity Ibsen, Karly Wildenhaus, Lynora Williams, and Michael Wirtz.



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