ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 12, Number 86 September 23, 2003 In This Issue: Washington Office Communications Survey Dear ALA Member, The ALA Washington Office is in the process of evaluating our conference offerings and our print and electronic publications - we would like your opinions. Please take a few minutes to complete both pages of the following short survey, filling in additional detail wherever applicable. The survey is attached in PDF format and it is also included in the body of this email. Thank you for helping us ensure that we are continuing to provide members with the best possible information about the many important legislative and policy issues affecting libraries. Please fax your completed survey by October 1 to the ALA Washington Office at (202) 628-8419, Attn: Bernadette Murphy. Thank you, ALA Washington Office Washington Office Communications Survey 1. In the past six months, which of the following publications have you read? (check all that apply) ___ The Washington Office Conference Newspaper ___ The Washington Office Six Month Report ___ Other Washington Office publications (please specify)___________________________________________________________ 2. Do you subscribe to ALAWON? ___ Yes ___ No 3. Do you regularly read the ALAWON when it comes? ___ Yes ___ No 4. In the past six months, how often have you responded to an ALAWON "Urgent Action Alert" by contacting your Congressional representatives about library issues such as LSTA? ___ Five or more times ___ Just once ___ Between one and five times ___ Not at all in the past six months 5. When you have responded to an ALAWON Urgent Action alert, with which of the following means have you contacted your Congressional representative? ___ I've phoned ___ I've faxed a letter ___ I've sent email through the ALA Legislative Action Center ___ I've sent email on my own, without using the Legislative Action Center ___ Other (please specify) ________________________________________________ 6. Do you regularly attend the Washington Office Update sessions at Midwinter and Annual Conference? ___ Yes, usually ___ Not usually ___ Only if the subject being discussed is of particular interest to me 7. Would you prefer to attend Washington Office conference sessions that are more comprehensive, general updates about many key legislative issues, or would you prefer to attend sessions that provided in-depth information on just a few issues? ___ General Information on lots of issues ___ In-depth information on just a few key issues 8. Would you be interested in participating in hands-on, workshop-style sessions at the Washington Update, as opposed to the traditional presentation-style sessions? ___ Yes ___ No Please comment:________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 9. Please rank the following library issues in order of their importance to you, with 1 being the issue you'd most like to hear about at the Washington Office conference Update Sessions, and 9 being the issue you're least interested in hearing about at conference. ___ LSTA ___ CIPA and Filtering ___ E-rate ___ USA PATRIOT Act ___ Appropriations ___ School Library Issues ___ Intellectual Property/Copyright ___ Privacy Issues ___ Access to Government Information ___ Other (please specify in space below) _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ 10. With 1 being not at all useful, 3 being somewhat useful, and 5 being very useful, please evaluate the usefulness of the following publications. WO Conference Newspaper 1 2 3 4 5 ALAWON Electronic Newsline Reports 1 2 3 4 5 Washington Office Issue Briefs/White Papers 1 2 3 4 5 ****** ALAWON (ISSN 1069-7799) is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. To subscribe to ALAWON, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc@ala.org or go to http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. To unsubscribe to ALAWON, send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc@ala.org. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. ALA Washington Office, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 403, Washington, D.C. 20004-1701; phone: 202.628.8410 or 800.941.8478 toll-free; fax: 202.628.8419; e-mail: alawash@alawash.org; Web site: http://www.ala.org/washoff. Executive Director: Emily Sheketoff. Office of Government Relations: Lynne Bradley, Director; Camille Bowman, Mary Costabile, Don Essex, Patrice McDermott and Miriam Nisbet. Office for Information Technology Policy: Rick Weingarten, Director; Kathy Mitchell, Carrie Russell. ALAWON Editor: Bernadette Murphy.