Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts v.6 n.11, November 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.
Black Lives Matter Updates
- "A Call for Ivy+ Libraries to Divest from Police and Prisons and Invest in
Life-Giving Resources," AbLAIvy+, December 2, 2020.
- Eckles, Amelia. "Alternatives to Calling the Police."
Denver Public Library, November 20, 2020.
- Morrison, Heather. "Boston Saw 500% Increase
in Interest in Anti-Racism Books, Libraries across the State Look to Fill Need."
masslive, November 16, 2020.
COVID-19 Updates
Activism and Social Justice in the Arts
- Liscia, Valentina Di. “Cuban Security Forces Raid Artist-Activist Headquarters.”
Hyperallergic, November 30, 2020.
- Liscia, Valentina Di. “How US Voters Weighed in on Arts and Culture on Their 2020 Ballots.”
Hyperallergic, November 5, 2020.
- Packard, Cassie. “Protest Signs by Artists and Celebrities Sold to Benefit Families
of Black Women Killed by Police.” Hyperallergic, November 12, 2020.
- Selvin, Claire. “Mary Wollstonecraft Monument in London Generates Controversy.”
ARTnews.com, November 10, 2020.
- Solomon, Tessa. “Upstate New York Town Government Demands Removal of Nick Cave Artwork.”
ARTnews.com, November 11, 2020.
- Stoilas, Helen, Nancy Kenney, and Vincent Noce. “Art World Rejoices in Biden’s Win of US Presidency.”
Art Newspaper, November 8, 2020.
Copyright, Fair Use, Image Rights/Reuse
- Andreadis, Steve. "Generating STEAM with Copyright."
Library of Congress Copyright Blog, November 9, 2020.
- Harmon, Elliot and Cara Gagliano. "Let’s Stand Up for Home Hacking and Repair."
Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 24, 2020.
- Zhang, Michael. "Gun-Toting Couple Sues Photographer, Demands Copyright to Viral Photo."
PetaPixel, November 9, 2020.
Funding
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access (IDEA)
Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information
- Doyle, Céilí.
"'Every Day, We're Falling Behind in Appalachian Ohio': Lack of Broadband Hurts Rural Areas."
Columbus Dispatch, October 30, 2020.
- Hall, Tracie D. "Ending Information Redlining."
American Libraries, November 2, 2020.
- Mahboob, Tahiat.
How a BC Library's Drag Queen Story Hour Turned into a Nationwide Fight for Intellectual Freedom.
CBC.ca, November 7, 2020.
- Morrison, Sara. "Ajit Pai, Trump's FCC Chair Who Repealed Net Neutrality, is Leaving on January 20."
Vox.com, November 30, 2020.
- Rihl, Juliette.
"'I'm Going to Be Lost Now': ACJ Limits Inmates' Access to Books, Raising Mental Health Concerns Amid Pandemic Restrictions."
Public Source, November 24, 2020.
Open Access
- Allf, Bradley. “I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal.”
Undark Magazine, November 26, 2020.
- Chawla, Dalmeet Singh. “Nature Journals Set to Offer All Authors Open Access Route
in 2021 – for a Price.” Chemistry World, November 27, 2020.
- “Community-Led Open Education Conference Expands Reach in 2020 and Beyond.”
SPARC, December 1, 2020.
- Sanza, Cristina, Keroles Riad, and Nancy Hamdy. “Scientists: Here’s How to Fight Back against
Anti-Maskers, Climate Deniers and Anti-Vaxxers.” The Conversation, November 30, 2020.
Privacy
- Dressler, Virginia. "The Right to Be Forgotten in Digital Archives."
Choose Privacy Every Day, November 17, 2020.
- Gardner, Gabriel J. "WHOIS behind SNSI & GetFTR?"
Motley Marginalia, November 16, 2020.
- Harwell, Drew. "Cheating-Detection Companies Made Millions during the Pandemic. Now Students Are Fighting Back."
Washington Post, November 12, 2020. .
- Mehta, Gautama. "Proposal to Install Spyware in University Libraries to Protect Copyrights Shocks Academics."
Coda Story, November 13, 2020.
- Tomaszewski, Stacy. "Balancing Privacy and Usability."
Choose Privacy Every Day, November 2, 2020.
Workplace
- Antell, Karen, and Susan E. Hahn. "Faculty Status: The Next Generation Employment Status Preferences among Millennial LIS Students and New Librarians at ARL Institutions."
The Journal of Academic Librarianship 46, no. 6 (November 2020): 102250.
- Farkas, Meredith. "Our Collective Power."
American Libraries, November 2, 2020.
- McCarther, Amye. "From Collective Responsibility to Collective
Equity: An Interview with Sandy Rodriguez and Ruth Kitchin Tillman." Metropolitan Archivist, November 5, 2020.
- Smith, Hannah Jane, and Suzanne Fischer. "Why NCPH Will Only Post Jobs with Compensation Information."
History@Work: The NCPH Blog, November 3, 2020.
- Tang, Lydia, Katarina Hering, Alison Clemens, Bridget Malley, and Amy Wickner. "Summer 2020 Archival Workers
Emergency Fund Survey Summary." Archival Workers Emergency Fund, November 10, 2020.
This issue of News Alerts was compiled by Amy Furness, Serenity Ibsen, Karly Wildenhaus, Lynora Williams, and Michael Wirtz.
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