ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 8, Number 124 December 17, 1999 In this issue: Legislation & Policy Update Agenda ALA Midwinter Conference in San Antonio The ALA Committee on Legislation invites all those attending ALA's Midwinter Conference to join us at the Legislative Update on Saturday morning, January 15th from 9:30am to 12:30pm in Room CC- 217,rooms A & B of the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio. The Update will include the latest on federal appropriations for library programs, the status of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and important information about intellectual property and copyright issues such as the database bills pending in Congress. There will also be plenty of time for questions and some crystal ball predictions about the next session of Congress and library-related legislation. We look forward to seeing you there! LEGISLATION & POLICY UPDATE Sponsored by the ALA Committee on Legislation Saturday, January 15, 1999 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Henry B Gonzalez Convention Center, Rm. 217 A & B PRELIMINARY AGENDA 9:30 - 9:45 a.m. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS - QUICK OVERVIEW OF KEY ISSUES Chad Raymond, Chair, ALA Committee on Legislation and Emily Sheketoff, ALA Associate Executive Director - Washington Office 9:45 a.m. STATUS OF FY 2000 AND FY 2001 APPROPRIATIONS UPDATE ON ESEA REAUTHORIZATION Mike Stephens and Elyse Wasch With Mary Rae Costabile, Associate Director - ALA Office of Government Relations 10:10 a.m. HOW TO LEARN EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT COPYRIGHT. ALA's Copyright Education Project Carrie Russell, Copyright Education Specialist - ALA Office for Information Technology and Policy 10:30 a.m. LOCKING DOWN INFORMATION? The risk of losing access. A grassroots alert on the latest on UCITA & Database legislation Miriam Nisbet, Legislative Counsel ALA Office for Government Relations 10:50 a.m. The Internet Policy Arena - Expanding Universe or Black Hole? Internet Governance, the World Trade Organization.why we need to get involved Rick Weingarten, Director ALA Office for Information Technology Policy BREAK 11:10 A.M. WHAT CAN WE DO TOGETHER? The Year 2000 Census, IRS Services and Libraries Kimberly Crews (invited) from the Census Bureau Raymona Stickell from the IRS with Mary Costabile, Assistant Director, ALA Office of Government Relations 11:30 a.m. A BRIEF SPIN AROUND THE E-RATE, FILTERING and other telecom. issues. Update on the E-rate: Year Three Status & Future Challenges K.G. Ouye, Chair, Schools & Libraries Committee, USAC Kate Moore, Chief Executive Officer Schools and Libraries Division Universal Service Administrative Company With Nancy Bolt, Chair of the ALA E-rate Taskforce and Saundra Shirley, Telecommunications Specialist, ALA Office for Information Technology Policy Filtering & Privacy: What's the Millennium view? Leslie Harris, consultant to the ALA Washington Office with Claudette Tennant, Assistant Director Office for Government Relations Noon to 12:30 p.m. CRYSTAL BALL PREDICTIONS: A lively discussion about the next 100 days of Congress and what the first year of the New Millennium may bring for library legislation and policy issues with Mike Stephens, Elyse Wasch and Leslie Harris. Questions - answers - discussion with opportunity for audience participation moderated by Emily Sheketoff ****** 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 or go to http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. 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; Editor: Deirdre Herman. Office of Government Relations: Lynne Bradley, Director; Mary Costabile, Peter Kaplan, Miriam Nisbet and Claudette Tennant. Office for Information Technology Policy: Rick Weingarten, Director; Carrie Russell and Saundra Shirley.