Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts v.7 n.3, March 2021
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.
Activism and Social Justice in the Arts
- Fairley, Gina. “Australian Festival Cancels Artist Project That Would’ve Doused
British Flag in Indigenous Blood.” Hyperallergic, March 24, 2021.
- Greenberger, Alex. “MoMA’s Philip Johnson Problem: How to Address the Architect’s Legacy?”
ARTnews.Com, March 25, 2021.
- Liscia, Valentina Di. “Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Honors Victims of Atlanta Hate Crime on TIME Cover.”
Hyperallergic, March 18, 2021.
- Liscia, Valentina Di. “Over 160 Confederate Symbols Were Removed in 2020, Study Shows.”
Hyperallergic, March 4, 2021.
- Seibert, Brian. “A Rift Over Art and Activism Ripples Through the Performance World.”
The New York Times, March 12, 2021.
- Weber, Jasmine. “Amid Mounting Controversy, Leon Black Will Step Down as MoMA Chairman.”
Hyperallergic, March 26, 2021.
Copyright, Fair Use, Image Rights/Reuse
- Cascone, Sarah. "An Appeals Court Rules That Andy Warhol Violated a Photographer’s Copyright by Using Her
Image of Prince Without Credit." artnet, March 29, 2021.
- Hall, Alison. "Celebrating Women’s History Month: The Gee’s Bend Quilters and Copyright."
Library of Congress Copyright blog, March 1, 2021.
- McSherry, Corinne. "EFF to Court: Don’t Let Pseudo-IP Thwart Speech, Innovation, and Competition."
Electronic Frontier Foundation, March 31, 2021.
Funding
- Dumond, Susie. "Congress Allocates Billions of Dollars to Libraries in COVID Relief Package."
Book Riot, March 11, 2021.
- Lord, Clayton W. "10 Trends that Will Impact Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy in 2021."
Americans for the Arts, March 16, 2021.
- "New Report Explores Capacity Building Opportunities for Museums."
IMLS, March 24, 2021.
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access (IDEA)
- Brooks, Kelli Nero. “Stanford
U. to Debut Archive of African American History in Silicon Valley.” Library Journal, March 11, 2021.
- “Letter to Asian Diasporic Library Workers,”
up//root, February 22, 2021.
- Raycraft, Richard. “Advocates Urge Liberals to Cancel ‘Devastating’ Cut to Services for Canadians with Print Disabilities.”
CBC.ca, March 7, 2021.
- “Taking Steps toward Reconciliation at Library and Archives Canada.”
Library and Archives Canada, March 3, 2021.
- Thomas, Alonda. “Howard University Names Law Library in Honor of Civil Rights Activist
Vernon Jordan.” Howard Newsroom, March 8, 2021.
Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information
- Andrew, Scottie. “Libraries Oppose Censorship. So They’re Getting Creative When It Comes to Offensive Kids’ Books.”
CNN, March 3, 2021.
- Ennis, Matt. “New
America Study Reveals Race, Wealth Disparities in Library Access During Pandemic.”
Library Journal, March 16, 2021.
- Essen, Leah Rachel von. “The Ever-Growing Challenge of Getting Books into Prisons.”
Book Riot, March 5, 2021.
- Herships, Sally. "Libraries are Key Tools for People Getting out of Prison, Even During a
Pandemic." NPR, March 28, 2021.
- Sye, David. “ALA’s Broadband Resolution and the FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit Program.”
Intellectual Freedom Blog, March 2021
Open Access
- Albanese, Andrew. "Maryland Legislature Passes
Law Supporting Library Access to Digital Content." Publishers Weekly, March 11, 2021.
- Brainard, Jeffrey. “California Universities and Elsevier Make up, Ink Big Open-Access Deal.”
Science, March 16, 2021.
- “Four Open Textbook Pilot Grantees Kick Off Projects to Save Students Millions.”
SPARC - News, March 1, 2021.
- Gadallah, Marwa. "What Is 'Open Access,' Really? - A Comic."
HAZINE, March 22, 2021.
- “Louvre Museum Makes Its Entire Collection Available Online.”
France 24, March 26, 2021.
Privacy
- "America, Your Privacy Settings Are All Wrong."
The New York Times, March 6, 2021.
- Aten, Jason. "Clubhouse Is Recording Your Conversations. That’s Not Even Its Worst Privacy
Problem." Inc.com, February 27, 2021.
- Dressler, Virginia. "Overview of Two New ALA Privacy-Related Resolutions."
Choose Privacy Every Day, March 3, 2021.
- Sinders, Caroline. "How Musicians and Sex Workers Beat Facial Recognition in New Orleans."
VICE Motherboard, March 26, 2021.
- Tomaszewski, Stacy. "Adventures of an EResources Librarian – Thinking About and Teaching
Privacy Every Day, Part One." Choose Privacy Every Day, March 29, 2021.
Technology
- Byrum, Greta. "To Build Lasting Digital Equity, Look to Communities."
The Hill, March 29, 2021.
- Chayka, Kyle. "How Beeple Crashed the Art World."
New Yorker, March 22, 2021.
- Fowler, Geoffrey A. "Want to Borrow That E-Book from the Library? Sorry, Amazon Won't Let You."
Washington Post, March 10, 2021.
- Pegoraro, Rob. "The Paper-to-Pixels Workaround Activists Want to
Use to Keep Libraries Online." Forbes, March 27, 2021.
- "Researchers Virtually Open and Read Sealed Historic Letters."
MIT News, March 2, 2021.
- Romm, Tony. "House, Senate Democrats Unveil $94 Billion Bill to Improve Internet Access."
Washington Post, March 11, 2021.
Workplace
- Farkas, Meredith. "Building Morale in a Pandemic."
American Libraries Magazine, March 1, 2021.
- Harris, Gareth. "Victoria and Albert Museum Backtracks on Plans to Cut Its National Art Library Staff."
The Art Newspaper, March 18, 2021.
- Hayssen, Sophie. "Unions on Campus: How Some Undergraduates Are Organizing During COVID-19."
Teen Vogue, March 29, 2021.
- NASIG Equity & Inclusion Committee. "Salary Requirement for Jobs Blog."
NASIG Blog, March 19, 2021.
- Paparella, Maxwell. “The Museum Union Wave Dossier.”
Art Papers, Summer 2020 (published online March 10, 2021).
This issue of News Alerts was compiled by Sarah Hamerman, Serenity Ibsen, Karly Wildenhaus, Lynora Williams, and Michael Wirtz.