ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 9, Number 69
August 29, 2000

In this issue:
Results of WO Communications/Publications Survey

Our thanks to all who completed the Washington Office 
Communications/Publications survey. We value your opinions and 
appreciate your help as we work to provide you with the best news 
and information regarding the federal legislative and policy 
issues that affect libraries. 

We have compiled the survey results and are already implementing 
several of your ideas. Effective immediately, we will make the 
following changes to ALAWON:

? When an ALAWON asks for members to contact their 
Representatives, the text of the ALAWON e-mail will now also 
include a direct link to the Legislative Action Center, where 
members can look up the names and addresses of their 
representatives and send personalized e-mails on current library 
issues. 

? When an ALAWON provides an update of an ongoing Washington 
Office issue, we will (wherever possible) provide a direct link 
to a Washington Office Issue Brief that describes the subject in 
detail.

In addition to these changes, we are also instituting a trial 
system that we hope will assist you in managing your ALAWON 
subscription. During the next nine months, the subject lines of 
ALAWON will include a system of abbreviations that will indicate 
what the ALAWON is about and whether the ALAWON e-mail calls for 
immediate action. For example, an ALAWON subject line that reads: 
[ALA-WO] ACT!/APPR indicates that the ALAWON calls for immediate 
action on an appropriations issue. A subject line that reads: 
[ALA-WO] INFO/COPY indicates that the ALAWON gives information on 
a copyright issue, but does not call for immediate action. A list 
of the abbreviations follows.

In May, we will send you a questionnaire asking if you find this 
new system of subject-line abbreviations useful. We will decide to 
continue the system or not based on your feedback. 

Please let us know if there are other subjects you'd like an 
abbreviation for. 

List of ALAWON subject-line abbreviations: 

Action Alerts:
ACT! = Immediate Action Needed 

ALRT = Action Needed, not immediate

INFO = Informational issue of ALAWON - no action needed

Q? = WO Questionnaire 

DUE = due dates for grant proposals, dates for events like Leg 
Day, etc. 


Issue Alerts:
UCIT =  UCITA

FUND = Funding

APPR = Approps

LSTA = LSTA

ESEA = ESEA

FILT = Filtering

GVTI = Government Information

GRNT =  Grants information

SCHL = School Libraries

LITR = Literacy

ERAT = E-Rate

DD = Digital Divide

GPO = GPO

LC = LC

COPY = Copyright

IF = Intellectual Freedom

DB = Database


Thank you again for your feedback and invaluable opinions.
	

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