{"id":4718,"date":"2017-05-16T19:58:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T19:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2017-05-16T19:58:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T19:58:15","slug":"legislative-update-05162017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-update-05162017\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update, 05\/16\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Take action to support federal library funding!\u00a0Contact your senators<\/a>\u00a0to sign each of the Reed\/Collins LSTA and Reed\/Grassley\/Stabenow IAL “Dear Appropriator” letters. Senators have until May 19 to sign. President Trump has proposed elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and most all other library funding sources. Read the full story on the\u00a0District Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Joint MLA\/AAHSL Legislative Task Force met with lawmakers in Washington DC in mid-April. They advocated for continued support in funding the NLM and NIH. Representatives were given fact sheets on\u00a0NLM resource use<\/a>, benefits of\u00a0public access to federally-funded research<\/a>, and\u00a0NLM research support<\/a>. For those attending MLA 2017 in Seattle, look for the\u00a0Activism in a Time of Turbulence<\/a>\u00a0open forum. Read more about the\u00a0Legislative Task Force’s meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ACRL Legislative Agenda for 2017 includes four focal issues. In priority order, these are:
\n(1) Federal funding for libraries
\n(2) Network neutrality
\n(3) Access to federally funded research
\n(4) Privacy and government surveillance
\nRead about\u00a0each of these issues and view the Watch List<\/a>\u00a0of issues of “great concern” to academic and research libraries, but which have no legislation pending.<\/p>\n

State:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just a couple of news items of interest:<\/p>\n

“Illinois Senate OKs Internet Privacy Measure<\/a>” from\u00a0The State Journal-Register<\/em><\/p>\n

“Monday Bid Deadline Prompts Scramble Among Illinois Insurers, Legislators<\/a>” from\u00a0Modern Healthcare<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Federal: Take action to support federal library funding!\u00a0Contact your senators\u00a0to sign each of the Reed\/Collins LSTA and Reed\/Grassley\/Stabenow IAL “Dear Appropriator” letters. Senators have until May 19 to sign. President Trump has proposed elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and most all other library funding sources. Read the full story on the\u00a0District…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hlsi-committees","category-hsli-governance","category-legislation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}