ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 9, Number 89 November 1, 2000 In this issue: DON'T FORGET TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE UCITA PRIMER EMAIL TUTORIAL! Messages start Monday, November 6, 2000 The ALA Office for Information Technology Policy is sponsoring a mini-tutorial, modeled on the popular copyright e-mail tutorial presented this spring. The UCITA Primer is FREE to ALA and non- ALA members. E-mail sessions begin on November 6th and will run through November 20th so sign up today! Librarian experts who have fought UCITA legislation at their states will provide information on issues and strategies. Rick Weingarten, Director of OITP and Carrie Russell, OITP Copyright Specialist will guide you through UCITA basics-how the law will work and how it will affect libraries. To subscribe to the UCITA Primer, send a message with the subject line blank to: Listproc@ala1.ala.org In the body of the email, type: subscribe ucitatut Your First Name Your Last Name ****** 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.