The US Department of Justice (DOJ) decided not to participate in the appeal of the case Cambridge University Press v. Mark Becker as amicus curiae. The case concerns the use at Georgia State University (GSU) of electronic course reserves (e-reserves) and electronic course sites to make excerpts from academic books available online to students enrolled in particular courses. It was widely reported that the US Copyright Office requested that the DOJ file an amicus brief either on the side of the publishers or as a neutral party. On February 22, 2013, the DOJ sent this letter to the court stating that the US Attorney General had decided not to file an amicus brief in the case.
 ltr-doj-re-gsu-ereserves-22feb13.pdf
The nearly 3000 undersigned national, state, and local organizations—representing the hundreds of millions of Americans who support and benefit from nondefense discretionary (NDD) programs—strongly urge a balanced approach to deficit reduction that does not include further cuts to NDD programs, which have already done their part to reduce the deficit.
ndd-letter-12july2012.pdf
Letter in support of the comments filed by Public.resources.org concerning "Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and in Conformity Assessment Activities."
ltsunsteinibr-30apr12.pdf
Letter from library associations thanking Paul Broun for conducting a hearing on Public Access and Scholarly Publication Interests. frpaa-broun-29mar2012.pdf
Letter opposing the Research Works Act. lt-researchworksact-24feb12.pdf
Letter from higher education and library associations thanking Representative Doyle for introducing H.R. 4004, "The Federal Research Public Access Act."
oawg-house-frpaa-14feb2012.pdf
Letter from higher education and library associations thanking Senator Cornyn for introducing S. 2096, "'The Federal Research Public Access Act."
oawg-senate-frpaa-14feb2012.pdf
Library association letter expressing opposition to H.R. 3699, The Research Works Act. lt-researchworksact-24jan12.pdf
Letter from Government Printing Office responding to concerns about the FDLP's future. fdlp_shermanemail_23jan12.pdf
Letter from library directors to Government Printing Office representative regarding a multi-state regional depository proposal advanced by the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota Libraries, and the GPO's position on comprehensive collecting by regional depository libraries. fdlp_umdumnufl_response_20jan12.pdf
Letter to Ambassador Ron Kirk, United States Trade Representative, concerning ACTA. lt-kirk-acta-leak-22mar10.pdf
EDUCAUSE, the American Library Association, and the Association of Research Libraries applaud your "third way" proposal to ensure that students, educators, and the general public can benefit from broadband services.
lt-genachowski-broadband-plan-10may10.pdf
Letter from higher education organizations regarding preserving the open Internet. lt-genachowski-open-internet-01mar10.pdf
Letter thanking Secretary of State Clinton for signing the orders effectively ending the exclusion of Professor Adam Habib of the University of Johannesburg and Professor Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University.
ideological-exclusion-021610.pdf
Comments on the WIPO Revised Provisions for the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions/Expressions of Folklore (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/16/4). ltr-lca_wipo_tce_21jul10.pdf
Letter expressing ARL's disappointment with the decision by the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to underwrite 50% of the plaintiffs' costs in the litigation by three publishers against Georgia State University.
lt-ccc-gsu-11nov12.pdf
Letter from interested organizations thanking the Secretary of Defense for promoting increased transparency in nuclear weapons policy, including the publication of the Nuclear Posture Review Report in an entirely unclassified format and the disclosure of the size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. lt-dod-5apr10.pdf
The undersigned organizations with diverse views write to urge that Senate Conferees accede to the House passed-version of the PATRIOT Act with respect to Section 132 of the House bill. It would require a government-wide survey of those federal programs that use "pattern-based" data-mining to identify a "pattern indicating terrorist or criminal activity." This provision would require the first full cataloging and assessment of government programs that employ this emerging technology. The provision would also require the Justice Department to identify legal impediments, if any, to the use of such technology.
lt-patriot-data-mining-amendment-23sept05.pdf
Dear Representatives Regula and Obey, Senators Specter and Harkin and Dr. Zerhouni:
Our organizations are volunteer and nonprofit HIV/AIDS treatment, vaccine, and prevention advocacy groups with a long history of community participation in all aspects of government and privately sponsored research to fight the AIDS pandemic. In that capacity, we support at July 16, 2004 House Appropriations Committee recommendation that NIH develop a policy requiring a complete electronic text of any manuscript reporting work funded by NIH grants or contracts be supplied to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central. (The specifics of that policy have yet to be announced or commented on publicly.) Furthermore, we support greater efforts to increase open access to medical research/scientific publications, especially for those studies or reviews funded by taxpayer dollars. We understand the House Committee calls on NIH to report by December 1, 2004 on how it intends to implement a policy.
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Letter from the Attorney General responding to questions about the USA PATRIOT Act.
lt-patriotresponses-17oct02.pdf
A generic letter for faculty informing them of the implications of the October 2008 proposed Google Books settlement.  ltr_google-books-faculty.doc
Letters from coordinators of regional depository libraries expressing concern over GPO's responses to two initiatives within the FDLP system.
FDLP-letter-to-gpo-19oct11.pdf
Comments from ALA and ARL on the Section 108 Study Group efforts. rasenberger-108-letter-24apr06.pdf
Letter commending the House for refusing to pass the S. 2248, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2007. lt-fisa-05mar08.pdf
Letter from higher education and library associations to the US Patent and Trademark Office. lt-steadman04feb03.pdf
We the undersigned organizations urge you to vote "no" on H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA). We are gravely concerned that this bill will allow companies that hold very sensitive and personal information to liberally share it with the government, which could then use the information without meaningful oversight for purposes unrelated to cybersecurity.
aclu-coalition-cispa-16apr2012.pdf
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