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                                                             ISSN 1069-7799
                                  ALAWON
                      ALA Washington Office Newsline
                     An electronic publication of the
              American Library Association Washington Office

                            Volume 4, Number 35
                              April 18, 1995

   In this issue: (104 lines)
     J. ANDREW MAGPANTAY NAMED DIRECTOR OF ALA OFFICE FOR INFORMATION 
          TECHNOLOGY POLICY IN WASHINGTON

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                    J. ANDREW MAGPANTAY NAMED DIRECTOR
                                    OF
        ALA OFFICE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY POLICY IN WASHINGTON

J. Andrew Magpantay, special assistant for innovative projects and planning
at the Library and Center for Knowledge Management, University of
California, San Francisco, has been named director of the American Library
Association's (ALA) new Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP). 
Magpantay will begin his new duties on June 15.

Establishment of the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy is part
of the ALA Goal 2000 proposal, a five year plan to position the association
for the Information Age.  The Plan, proposed by Executive Director
Elizabeth Martinez, calls for strengthening ALA's role as an advocate for
the public interest in a free and open information society.

The new office is designed to complement the Washington Offices' efforts
and serve as a public policy advocate for libraries in the area of
information technology.  Magpantay will be responsible for representing the
information technology interests of libraries, librarians, and library
users in the public policy arena, with special attention to National
Information Infrastructure development.  He will report to the executive
director of the ALA Washington Office, Carol C. Henderson.

In his current position at the University of California, Magpantay has been
involved in the development of specialized software and content for the
campus World Wide Web server.  He is a member of the Red Sage Project, a
collaborative effort initiated by the University of California, San
Francisco, AT & T, Bell Laboratories and Springer-Verlag to investigate the
systems and economic models required to bring electronic journals directly
to the medical professional's desktop.  Magpantay also works on the
University of California, San Francisco's Integrated Advanced Information
Management Systems (IAIMS) project.

Magpantay has served as computer systems manager at the Earl Gregg Swem
Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; visiting librarian
at the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.;
applications programmer for online library information systems at the
University of California, Los Angeles.  Magpantay was also a reviewer for
the Telecommunications Information Infrastructure Assistance Program at the
U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., and staff researcher for the
California Public Utilities Commission Task Force on Telecommunications
Network Infrastructure, San Francisco.

An ALA member since 1986, Magpantay is a member of the ALA Committee on
Legislation's Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Telecommunications. He is also a
member of three ALA divisions:  the Library and Information Technology
Association (LITA), the Association of College and Research Libraries
(ACRL), and the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA). 
In addition, he is a member of the Special Libraries Association (SLA).

Magpantay is the author of "The Information Superhighway Metaphor and the
Politics of Public Good," published in the EDUCOM REVIEW, November/December
1994, and "The Baby Bells and Electronic Information Services" in the
Library and Information Technology Newsletter, Fall 1992.

He has a bachelor's degree in English (cum laude) from the University of
California, Los Angeles, a master's degree in library and information
science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master's
degree in business administration from the Walter A. Haas School of
Business, University of California, Berkeley.

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