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SPEC Kit 227: Organization of Document Collections and Services (April 1998)
A scanned version of SPEC Kit 227 is available full view through HathiTrust. View document here »
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Library OSP Letter to the House and the Senate re: On-line service providers’ liability for copyright infringement (Mar. 30, 1998)
Letter from library and higher education organizations thanking Congressional representatives for their attention to assuring that any statute designed to clarify the limit of an on-line service provider's liability for...
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To Publish and Perish
Special issue of "Policy Perspectives", co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of American Universities, and the Pew Higher Education Roundtable. This Policy Perspectives is about the challenge...
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Statement of Patricia A. Wand before the Subcommittee on Legislative, House Committee on Appropriations on the FY 1999 Appropriations for the Library of Congress.
Statement in support of the Library of Congress FY 1999 budget request wand-statement-loc-99budget.pdf
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Testimony Before the U.S. Copyright Office Public Hearing on Distance Education (Feb. 12, 1999)
Comments underscore the need for a change in Section 110(2) "to enable the display and performance of copyrighted works at remote locations at times selected by students" and to ask...
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SPEC Kit 228: Preserving Digital Information (December 1997)
A scanned version of SPEC Kit 228 (Transforming Libraries 5) is available full view through HathiTrust. View document here »
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Letter to John W. Warner re: Inter-Association Working Group on Government Information Policy (Oct. 17, 1997)
Letter written on behalf of the members of the Inter-Association Working Group on Government Information Policy (IAWG), expressing appreciation for the willingness of John Warner's staff to meet to discuss...
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“The Copyright Infringement Liability Of On-Line And Internet Service Providers” Joint Testimony Of National Library And Educational Organizations Before The United States Senate Committee On The Judiciary
Testimony by Robert Oakley on behalf of the American Association of Law Libraries and 17 of the nation's other principal educational and library organizations.oakley-testimony-090497.pdf
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SPEC Kit 226: After the User Survey, What Then? (September 1997)
A scanned version of SPEC Kit 226 (Transforming Libraries 4) is available full view through HathiTrust. View document here »
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Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources
ARL and its partner library associations issued these principles in 1997 and then developed a series of workshops on licensing to introduce the library community to best practices in contract...