ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 13, Number 27 April 27, 2004 In This Issue: Government Printing Office House Hearings Reprinted with Permission FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 27, 2004 CONTACT: Veronica Meter, 202-512-1957, 202-441-6226 Cell, No. 04- 10 **MEDIA ADVISORY** PUBLIC PRINTER BRUCE JAMES TO DISCUSS THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE TRANSFORMATION AT TWO HOUSE HEARINGS 2003 Results, Strategic Planning Process & Investing in the Future Among Main Topics Committee on House Administration U.S. House of Representatives WHO: Bruce James, Public Printer of the United States, GPO George Lord, Chairman of the Joint Council of Unions, GPO Marc Nichols, Inspector General, GPO Linda Koontz, General Accounting Office Ben Cooper, Printing Industries of America William Boarman, Communications Workers of America Janis Johnston, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana WHEN: Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 10:00 a.m. WHERE: 1310 Longworth House Office Building WHY: To talk about the transformation of the U.S. Government Printing Office to meet the demands of the 21st century. Subcommittee on Legislative Appropriations, Committee on Appropriations U.S. House of Representatives WHO: Bruce James, Public Printer of the United States, GPO Bill Turri, Deputy Public Printer, GPO Marc Nichols, Inspector General, GPO WHEN: Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 1:00 p.m. WHERE: The Capitol, Room H-140 WHY: To present the appropriations request for the U.S. Government Printing Office for fiscal year (FY) 2005. ### ****** 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; Carol Ashworth, Camille Bowman, Don Essex, Joshua Farrelman, Patrice McDermott and Miriam Nisbet. Office for Information Technology Policy: Rick Weingarten, Director; Carrie Lowe, Kathy Mitchell, Carrie Russell. ALAWON Editor: Bernadette Murphy.