================================================================= ALAWON Volume 6, Number 113 ISSN 1069-7799 December 16, 1997 American Library Association Washington Office Newsline In this issue: (106 lines) ALA 1998 MIDWINTER CONFERENCE LEGISLATION & POLICY UPDATE AGENDA _________________________________________________________________ ALA 1998 MIDWINTER CONFERENCE LEGISLATION & POLICY UPDATE AGENDA Library advocates are encouraged to attend the Legislation & Policy Update, sponsored by the ALA Committee on Legislation, on Saturday, January 10 from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the New Orleans Convention Center, Rooms 103 and 104, during ALA Midwinter Conference. Come hear about the status of critical legislative issues important to the library community including the latest on intellectual property issues and discounted telecom rates for libraries/schools. A detailed agenda follows. ALA COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION LEGISLATION & POLICY UPDATE Saturday, January 10, 1998 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. New Orleans Convention Center Rooms 103, 104 New Orleans, Louisiana AGENDA WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Patricia Wand, Chair, ALA Committee on Legislation 9:30-10:00 a.m. UPDATE FOR LIBRARIANS ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES Adam Eisgrau - Legislative Counsel ALA Washington Office Updating Copyright Law for Cyberspace Trisha Davis -ALA Representative to Principles Development Working Group New Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources 10:00 a.m. WELCOME TO THE NEWEST FEDERAL LIBRARY OFFICIAL (ON HER 5TH DAY IN THE POSITION) Elizabeth Sywetz, Deputy Director Office of Library Services Institute of Museum and Library Services 10:15 a.m. ISSUES FACING THE NEW FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Ching-Chih Chen, Member Presidential Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology, and Next Generation Internet 10:30 - 10:45 a.m. BREAK 10:45 a.m. DISCOUNTED TELECOM RATES FOR LIBRARIES/SCHOOLS -- THEY'RE FINALLY HERE! K. G. Ouye, Chair, Schools and Libraries Corporation Andrew Magpantay and Aleck Johnson, ALA Office for Information Technology Policy 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY -- TITLE 44 REVISION Eric Peterson, Staff Director Joint Committee on Printing, U.S. Congress Kennie Gill, Democratic Staff Director & Chief Counsel Senate Committee on Rules and Administration _________________________________________________________________ ALAWON is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. To subscribe, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc @ala.org. To unsubscribe, send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc@ala.org. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/ washoff/alawon. Visit our Web site at http://www.alawash.org. ALA Washington Office 202.628.8410 (V) 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, #403 202.628.8419 (F) Washington, DC 20004-1701 800.941.8478 (V) Lynne E. Bradley, Editor Deirdre Herman, Managing Editor Contributors: Carol C. Henderson All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. =================================================================