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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > Dear Friends, > > We are in need of a recorder for Session 13: Informed on the Issues: > Sharing Perspectives on Public Policy, Monday, March 29, 1999 > from 4:00 - 6:00. (See program description below.) > > Anyone planning to attend this session, your assistance in volunteering to > be recorder will be much appreciated. Please respond to me directly. > > Thanks in advance for a kind volunteer!! > > Katy Poole > Chair, Public Policy Committee > ___________________________________ > > ARLIS/NA 1999 ANNUAL CONFERENCE > Vancouver, B.C., CANADA > March 25 - 31, 1999 > > Title: Informed on the Issues: Sharing Perspectives on Public Policy > Monday, March 29, 1999, 4:00 - 6:00 > > Sponsor(s): Public Policy Committee & International Relations Committee > Moderator: Katherine Poole, MIT, Rotch Visual Collections > > Program Description: > National and international debate on current public policy issues > and legislation are continually reflected in the changing environment of > today's libraries. Advances in digital technologies and the universality of > the Internet have spurred recent efforts to update or create new > legislation. Actions and decisions on a range of critical issues, such > as copyright and intellectual property rights; intellectual freedom, > including censorship, privacy and confidentiality, have the potential > to profoundly affect art librarianship. > Understanding our shared and varied political realities is vital to > our preparedness to actively pursue the future as we envision it. This > jointly sponsored session offers an opportunity to review significant > public policy issues and legislation in Australia, Canada, and the U.S., > focusing on the importance for art libraries and visual resource collections. > > > J. Margaret Shaw > Chief Librarian, National Gallery of Australia, Research Library > "Copyright, Intellectual Property and Appropriation in Australia." > > Paul Whitney > Chief Librarian, Burnaby Public Library > "Canadian Cultural Policy: Swimming Against the Current." > > Catherine Whenmouth > Copyright Information Officer, Copyright Technology Office, Univ. > of Washington > "Copyrights v. Access Rights: Recent Developments in U.S. Copyright > Law." > ___________ Katherine Poole, Librarian Rotch Visual Collections, M.I.T. 77 Massachusetts Ave., 7-304 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 1-617-253-7098; FAX 1-617-253-9331 E-mail: [log in to unmask]