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LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY * GOVERNMENT RELATIONS COMMITTEE

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Activities, 2001

From: Samuel Trosow, Chair NOCALL Government Relations Committee

To: NOCALL Executive Board

Re: NOCALL Government Relations Committee Report

Date: May 22, 2001

 Since the last report to the NOCALL Executive Board (date January 24, 2001), the Government Relations Committee (GRC) has been working on the following activities: 

  • The committee began the year by planning for the pre-institute workshop on legislative advocacy held on March 15th in Sacramento.  Sacramento area committee members Susan Van Syckel, Maggie Kauffman and Shirley David are worked on various aspects of the program. Given the inactive status of UCITA in California and also given the emergence of funding for County Law Libraries as an issue before the 2001 Legislative, the focus of the program was changed to address both issues. 
     
  • The program was attended by 23 participants who were addressed by Bob Oakley (AALL President), Adam Cohn (from Sun Microcomputer), Charles Dyer (Director of the San Diego County Law Library), and Michael Corbett (Sacramento lobbyist for CCCLL).  In the afternoon, participants visited individual members of the legislature and this was followed by a debriefing session. There was general agreement among the participants that the event was worthwhile and should be repeated in future years. 
     
  • The committee continued to monitor the status of UCITA in California.  The legislation was not introduced in the 2001 session. 

  • The committee continued to work with the Legislative Committee of the California Library Association in an attempt to improve communications between CLA and the AALL chapters in California. The committee chair has nominated, and the grants committee has approved CLA President Cindy Mediavilla as chapter VIP to attend the AALL Conference in Minneapolis. We will use the opportunity of her attendance at the conference to further acquaint her with the legislative advocacy efforts of AALL. 
     
  • To date, there is no new information on the federal database legislation. The Washington Affairs Office of AALL is monitoring database legislation and will issue an alert should new legislation be introduced. A new mobilization for letter writing and calls to members of Congress will be undertaken should a new database bill be introduced in the 107th Congress as is still anticipated.

 Pending (needs to be done ASAP): 

 NOCALL needs to send a representative to the AALL pre-conference workshop on Legislative Advocacy to be held on Saturday July  14th (9:30 am to 12:30 pm).

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