ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 9, Number 4
January 24, 2000

In this issue:

Online Copyright Tutorial - Free to ALA Members; Non-ALA Members 
Encouraged to Subscribe for Small Fee

The ALA Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP), with the 
support of the American Association of Law Librarians (AALL), is 
pleased to announce a new copyright education course delivered via 
e-mail.  The Online Copyright Tutorial, the first project of ALA's 
Copyright Education program, is free to all ALA and AALL members. 

Non-ALA members can also participate by mailing their e-mail 
address along with a $25 dollar check or purchase order payable to 
the American Library Association. We regret we cannot accept 
credit cards.  Please send mail to the Washington Office address:
	American Library Association
	Washington Office
	1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
	Suite 403
	Washington, DC 20004-1701

The Online Copyright Tutorial is designed for librarians (public, 
school, academic, etc.), educators, and researchers.  Subscribers 
need only have an e-mail address to learn the "basics" of 
copyright at a friendly and instructive pace.  Approximately three 
e-mail messages per week over a ten-week period (about 35 messages 
overall) will be sent. Messages will be sent beginning the week of 
February 14th through the week of May 5th, 2000. For more 
information, see ALAWON, vol. 9, no. 2 
(http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/alwn9002.html). 

We encourage all librarians to take advantage of this opportunity 
by subscribing to the Online Copyright Tutorial e-mail list. To 
subscribe: 

1. Send an e-mail message to listproc@ala1.ala.org  
2. In the body of e-mail message type:
subscribe tutorial YourFirstName YourLastName 
3. Send

Staff at the Washington Office will subscribe non-ALA members once 
we receive payment. All subscribers will receive confirmation that 
their name and e-mail addresses have been included in the tutorial 
list.  The deadline for all subscribers is February 10, 2000. 
 
For more information about ALA's Copyright Education Program, 
contact Carrie Russell, OITP copyright specialist, at 
1.800.941.8478, or e-mail: copyright@alawash.org.
	
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ALA Washington Office, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 403, 
Washington, D.C. 20004-1701; phone: 202.628.8410 or 800.941.8478 
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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.