ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 9, Number 96 December 14, 2000 In this issue: James Madison Award Nominations Sought Freedom of Information Day (FOI Day) on Friday, March 16, 2001, celebrates the 250th Anniversary of James Madison's birth. To mark this important day, the Freedom Forum, in conjunction with ALA, will be granting the 12th annual James Madison Award. This Award honors those who have championed, protected, and promoted the public's right to know. We welcome your nominations for the recipient(s) of the 2001 James Madison Award. Please send nominations to Peter Kaplan at the ALA Washington Office at 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 403, Washington, DC 20004. Or fax your nomination to (202) 628-8419. The deadline for nominations is Wednesday, January 10, 2001. Please include a statement describing why your nominee qualifies for the award. Recent Madison Award winners include: 2000 Larry Irving, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce 1999 Board members and congressional sponsors of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board including former Senator John Glenn and Representatives Dan Burton, Henry Waxman, and Louis Stokes and Board members: Honorable John R. Tunheim (chair), Henry F. Graff, Kermit L. Hall, William L. Joyce and Anna Kasten Nelson 1998 Ben Bagdikian, journalist; Wayne P. Kelley, former Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing Office; Eliot Christian and the U.S. Geological Survey, National Library of Medicine 1997 Philanthropist and financier George Soros 1996 The National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council 1995 The Government Printing Office, the State of Maryland's Sailor Project, the Seattle (WA) Public Library, and the Internet Multicasting Service's Town Hall Project. 1994 Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary and former ALA Washington Office Director Eileen D. Cooke. Please keep your calendar open for March 16, 2001 for the Freedom of Information Day celebration. More details on the event will follow. Thank you in advance for your participation- we look forward to seeing you! ****** 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; Mary Costabile, Peter Kaplan, Miriam Nisbet and Claudette Tennant. Office for Information Technology Policy: Rick Weingarten, Director; Jennifer Hendrix, Carrie Russell and Saundra Shirley. ALAWON Editor: Bernadette Murphy.