Letter from higher education and library association asking the House to oppose H.R. 801, "The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act," and support the worldwide move toward open, public access to the results of publicly funded research.
 oawg_to_judiciary-09-feb.pdf
Letter from public interest organizations asking the Senators not to bring up S. 2560 at their scheduled Executive Business Meeting on October 7. lt_oppose-2560-06oct04.pdf
Letter from library associations addressing consensus proposal on orphan works. lt-orphanreply-09may05.pdf
Letter from public interest organizations expressing opposition to the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (DSEA). lt-patriot2-dsea-17mar03.pdf
Letter from NASULGC expressing support for efforts by the nation's librarians to require that any surveillance by the Federal government of the e-mails and other electronic information generated by library patrons be conducted only following issuance of a subpoena by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. lt-leahy-surveillance-07nov07.pdf
Letter from Library Copyright Alliance and others supporting the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO-IP Act) of 2007, H.R. 4279 with some changes. lt-proipact-05mar08.pdf
Letter from library associations supporting the Family and Entertainment Copyright Act of 2005, S. 167. lt-s167-family-ent-copyright-act-02mar05.pdf
Letter from library associations in support of the FY2008 appropriations request for the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). lt-senate-gpo-approps-fy08.pdf
Letter from library associations in strong support of the request to restore $21.5 million in funding for the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in the Library of Congress FY 2008 request. lt-senate-ndiipp-approps-fy08.pdf
Letter from library and higher education associations in support of the proposed FY 2009 funding of $160 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an increase of $15.3 million above the current year's enacted level. senjointltr_neh08jun19.pdf
Comments from library associations on draft of "Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act." lt-sensen-tauzin-database-04sept03.pdf
Letter from Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies expressing concern with the agreement between the Smithsonian and Showtime, granting the network near-exclusive rights to Smithsonian content. lt-small-smithsonian-27apr06.pdf
This statement is submitted on behalf of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in response to the request by the Library of Congress for comments in support of a study on the current state of recorded sound preservation in the United States. Sound recordings are a critically important part of our Nation's cultural and educational landscape. As a consequence, the scope of these collections within the ARL community is significant and diverse. Unfortunately, these collections are also in various stages of risk. lt-leggett-avmaterials-study-26jan07.pdf
Letter from ARL expressing the qualifications needed and challenges faced by the Public Printer and supporting the nomination of Robert Tapella as Public Printer of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). lt-tapella-nomination-gpo-11sep07.pdf
In this October 2004 letter, Prudence Adler writes on behalf of the Association of Research Libraries to express ARL's strong support for the NIH proposal to provide freely available online access to NIH-funded manuscripts via PubMed Central. There are many aspects of the NIH plan that ARL endorses and ARL applauds NIH's leadership in promoting this balanced initiative.
nih-publicaccess-comments-29oct04.pdf
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