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<p><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA News for July 18, 2017</span></b><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">American Library Association urges retention of 2015 Open Internet protections<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#303030; background:white">The American Library Association (ALA) continues the fight for an open internet for all. In </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/telecom/netneutrality/AALL%20ALA%20COSLA%20Comments%20July%202017.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0055A5; background:white">comments
filed</span></a><span style="color:#303030; background:white"> at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), ALA questions the need to review current net neutrality rules and urges regulators to maintain the strong, enforceable rules already in place.<br>
</span><b><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/07/ala-argues-retain-2015-open-internet-protections-fcc-comments" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/07/ala-argues-retain-2015-open-internet-protections-fcc-comments</span></a></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA Council passes resolution in response to removal of data on global climate change<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#303030">At the 2017 Annual Conference in Chicago, ALA Council passed a resolution calling for libraries to preserve and make available factual, scientific data, information
and literature both from government and citizen sources pointing to evidence of global climate change. The resolution is in response to the current Administration’s removal of data and information files on global climate change from the websites of the <a href="http://www.epa.gov/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0055A5">U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency</span></a> and the <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/image/president27sclimateactionplan.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0055A5">White House Action Plan
on Climate Change</span></a>. <br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/ala-council-resolution-global-climate-change" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/ala-council-resolution-global-climate-change</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA Council resolution calls for libraries to create responsible spaces<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">At the 2017 Annual Conference in Chicago, the ALA Council passed a resolution regarding libraries as responsible spaces. As part of the Committee on Diversity report, this resolution
is in response to a documented increase in hate crimes occurring in libraries.<br>
<b><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/council-resolution-calls-libraries-create-responsible-spaces" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/council-resolution-calls-libraries-create-responsible-spaces</span></a></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ALA Council adopts interpretations on politics and equity, diversity, inclusion<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">At the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago, the ALA Council adopted two interpretations authored by the Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC) that address
recent dialogues on diversity and politics.<br>
<b><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/ala-council-adopts-interpretations-politics-and-equity-diversity-inclusion" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/ala-council-adopts-interpretations-politics-and-equity-diversity-inclusion</span></a></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">LITA committee seeks innovative proposals for 2018 ALA Annual Conference<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The LITA Program Planning Committee (PPC) is now encouraging the submission of innovative and creative proposals.<br>
<b><a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/call-proposals-lita-ala-annual-2018" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/call-proposals-lita-ala-annual-2018</span></a></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WEBINARS, ECOURSES<br>
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LLAMA webinar focuses on the importance of developing a personal philosophy of librarianship<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/07/llama-webinar-what-drives-and-guides-us-importance-developing-personal" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/07/llama-webinar-what-drives-and-guides-us-importance-developing-personal</span></a></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">New eCourse shows how to market your library<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/new-iteration-how-market-your-library-ecourse" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight:normal">http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/07/new-iteration-how-market-your-library-ecourse</span></a></span></b></p>
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