ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 10, Number 81
November 15, 2001

In this issue: 

The Washington Office is pleased to announce an internal staff 
change.  Claudette Tennant, former Assistant Director for the 
Office of Government Relations, has become the new Internet Policy 
Specialist for the Office for Information Technology Policy.  

This exciting move allows Claudette to apply her expertise on 
Internet governance and telecommunications issues to policy-making 
initiatives and activities. Instead of lobbying to ensure 
congressional support for favorable library-related policy, she 
will have the opportunity to help shape some of the policies most 
important to libraries. Claudette will also serve as staff liaison 
to ALA's E-rate Task Force.

Claudette has been with the Washington Office for six years, 
beginning in 1995 as a Legislative Information Specialist. Over 
the last few years,  Claudette has been primarily lobbying for the 
E-rate and against mandatory Internet restriction in libraries.  

Tennant says, "I am excited about my decision to change to policy 
work.  I'm looking forward to examining issues that I'm very 
familiar with from new perspectives."


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Sheketoff. Office of Government Relations: Lynne Bradley, 
Director; Camille Bowman, Mary Costabile, Don Essex, Miriam Nisbet 
and Claudette Tennant. Office for Information Technology Policy: 
Rick Weingarten, Director; Jennifer Hendrix, Carrie Russell. 
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