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Blog entry: If You Google Net Neutrality, What Do You Get?
There’s been no dearth of opining in the past few days about the implications of Google and Verizon banding together to “find ways to protect the future openness of the internet and encourage the rapid deployment of broadband,” which is...
Posted August 11, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
Feature: Librarians Head for the Hill to Rally for Reading
ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., attracts 26,000 enthusiastic professionals.
Librarians and their supporters spoke loudly and clearly about the value of libraries during the American Library Association’s 2010 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., June 24–29.
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Posted July 27, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
PIO News Release: American Library Association to lead rally for libraries on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON, D.C.– More than 1,000 librarians from across the country will defy the stereotype of their “quiet profession” and stand up for the needs of the public during the...
Posted June 1, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
News Story: In Midnight Deal, Florida Legislature Reprieves Public Library Funding
Last-minute wrangling in the Florida legislature produced a deal to preserve state funding for libraries at the current-year level. At just before midnight on April 26 the House, which originally wanted to zero out all funding for the...
Posted April 27, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
Blog entry: Maybe the Play's the Thing
For millions of American schoolchildren, National Library Week isn’t quite the celebration that librarians want it to be. That’s because the viability of properly staffed school libraries, whose direct impact on increased...
Posted April 14, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
News Story: Court Rules FCC Lacks Authority to Regulate Net Neutrality
A federal appeals court ruled April 6 that the Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority to require network providers to give equal treatment to the sites or applications to which they provide access.
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Posted April 7, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
News Story: Court Tosses “Wholesale” Ban of Registered Sex Offenders
Citing an individual’s right to receive information as paramount, the U.S. District Court of New Mexico has overturned a two-year-old mayoral regulation that banned anyone who is a registered sex offender under...
Posted April 6, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
News Story: West Virginia Governor Vetoes Current-Level Funding for Libraries
West Virginia library advocates suffered a blow March 26 when Gov. Joe Manchin used his line-item veto power to slash library funding in next year’s state budget by 5%. Library supporters had convinced the legislature to maintain...
Posted March 29, 2010 | Comments: | Read More
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