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White House survey provides additional opportunity to #SaveIMLS
The White House is currently seeking public input on how the federal government can be better organized—with a focus on which government agencies should be reformed
or eliminated. After you have called your Senators to ask them to sign the FY 2018 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) letters, log on and add your voice to the record on the impact of IMLS and other federal
agencies to libraries, museums and the communities we serve.
Read more.
All hail the card catalog!
Carrie Russel recaps a panel program at the Library of Congress program celebrating the publication of
The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures by Peter Devereaux, writer and editor at the Library’s Publishing Office.
Read more.
ACorporate champions urge all Senators to support FY18 library funding
ALA delivered a powerful letter, signed by eight leading national library vendors and publishing companies, to the offices of all Senators who have not already signed
both the Senate LSTA and IAL letters urging them to do so.
Read more.
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Congress
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House: Met today at 10 a.m. in a pro forma session. Will reconvene at 2 p.m. tomorrow for legislative business and is expected to consider measures under suspension of the rules. Roll call votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m.
• Senate: Reconvenes at 3 p.m. and will resume consideration of the nomination of Jeffrey Rosen to be deputy secretary of Transportation.
Wednesday, May 17, at 11 a.m. (EST)
Hearing on 'Transforming Government Publishing Office for the 21st Century and Beyond' with testimony from GPO Director Davita Vance-Cooks.
Watch here.
Thursday, May 18, at 10:30 a.m. (Eastern)
The FCC is holding this Open Meeting, including Restoring Internet Freedom among other topics.
Details and live webcast on the FCC website.
Thursday, May 18, at 2 p.m. (Eastern)
The Legislative Branch Subcommittee (Chairman Kevin Yoder, R-Kan.) of House Appropriations Committee hosts a hearing on "Library of Congress: FY2018 Budget."
The hearing will be webcast.
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What we're reading...
NJ State Library. C-Span visits the State Library.
Read. NYT. Where Anti-Tax Fervor Means 'All Services Will Cease.'
Read. Nonprofit Quarterly. The Art of Defending Your Nonprofit, Little Free Library.
Read. 'Pop-up' library brings internet access to rural Spotsylvania. Read.
Chronicle of Higher Education. Fair Use Too Often Goes Unused.
Read. LCA. Testimony of the Library Copyright Alliance Before the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch Committee on Appropriations.
Read. R Street. CRS should stop fighting access to its own reports.
Read. Public. Florida Memory Achieves major milestone with the 200,000th historical photograph added online.
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