The Sausage Factory: 20 Years of Federal Relations

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The Sausage Factory20 Years of Federal Relations

• Symposium Honoring Duane Webster
• Columbia University, April 25, 2008

Winston Tabb
Dean, University Libraries, Johns Hopkins
University
The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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If you like law and sausages, you should never
watch either one being made

• Otto von Bismarck

The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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Federal Relations - Overview

• Broad scope
• Persistence of focus for ARL
• Persistence of issues
• Great accomplishments
• Strategic alliances

The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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Prelude

• Location of ARL in DC
• Key role of Executive Director
• Establishment of Federal Relations Program
  Officer (1984)

The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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1987-88

• Reauthorization of Higher Education Act Titles
  II and VI 31M
• Privatization of NTIS
• Discriminatory pricing of foreign journals in US
• GPO plan to cease distribution of paper copies
• ARL Committee on Government Policies
• ARL TF on Govt Info in Electronic Format
• Joined Coalition on Government Information
• ARL/LC/NEH microform masters conversion
• Congressional testimony brittle books
• FBI Library Awareness program

The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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1997-98

• GPO Transition Plan/Title 44
• Communications Decency Act
• Internet 2 and other networking initiatives
• ARL Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Literacy
  Project

The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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2007-8

• Wiley/Blackwell merger
• Access to publicly-funded research
• Net neutrality
• Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
  (CALEA)
• National Dialogue on Open Government and Secrecy
• ARL/NSF e-science workshop
• Symposia on Future of Government Information in
  Libraries

The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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Partners

• CARL
• AALL, ALA, MLA, SLA
• AAU, NASULGC, ACE, AACC, AASCU, NAICU
• LC, NLM, NAL, IMLS, GPO, NEH
• SPARC/Information Access Alliance
• Shared Legal Capability

The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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Thanks, Duane
The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.
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The Sausage Factory20 Years of Federal Relations

• Symposium Honoring Duane Webster
• Columbia University, April 25, 2008

Winston Tabb
Dean, University Libraries, Johns Hopkins
University
The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the
George Peabody Library.