http://www.caltac.org/blog Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:03:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Do you know of any librarians or other California Library Association members who are library trustees or commissioner? I am a library commissioner in Richmond, recent graduate from SJSU with my MLIS and just joined that CLA roundtable. I received an email that welcomed me and then said that ... http://www.caltac.org/blog/?p=19 I’m happy to see news about Legislative Day on the CALTAC web site. Hopefully, before the end of March, CALTAC members will receive a mailing tha tincludes a registration form and legislative priorities for Legislative Day! We’re going to go for higher funding of the PLF and, ... http://www.caltac.org/blog/?p=18 If you got this far, you already know! Cheers! Karen http://www.caltac.org/blog/?p=17 See LibraryLaw blog http://www.caltac.org/blog/?p=16 Here’s Mike Dillon’s report: http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/categoryarchives/advocacylegislation.php August 26, 2005 Deadline for Bills with Fiscal Impact Reached on Thursday TO: CLA MEMBERS/ SYSTEMS/ NETWORK CONTACTS FROM: Mike Dillon, Lobbyist; Christina Dillon, Lobbyist RE: NEWS FROM THE CAPITOL SENATE AND ASSEMBLY “HOLD” TWO BIG LIBRARY BILLS DUE TO COST PRESSURES AND POLICY CONCERNS Thursday afternoon, the Senate Appropriations Committee and Assembly ... http://www.caltac.org/blog/?p=15 The newsletter editor and the CALTAC board member who is the liaison between the Board and the editor (me) are puttng together the final touches on the July-Sept. issue of CALTACTICS. I was just doing a short piece on the sessions we are co-sponsoring at the CLA Conference this ... http://www.caltac.org/blog/?p=14 Note to CALTAC - I wrote our two Calif. senators plus a few Calif. congresspersons as policy analyst, since CALTAC long ago signed on to this project as an endorser. Full disclosure: it’s my father’s project - and it will be a tremendous boon to libraries and education if it ... http://www.caltac.org/blog/?p=13 I’ve submitted comments to Copyright Office on orphan works. So have a number of other groups…and it’s great to have so much attention on an issue so important to libraries. Here are my comments, as policy analyst for CALTAC and based on my experience as a library law consultant: http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2005/03/my_orphan_comme.html Here are ... http://www.caltac.org/blog/?p=12 Thanks to those who have registered on this blog. Please feel free to post to it. When you click on the blog link at the homepage at http://www.caltac.org, you need to login or register. Of course, if you are readng this, you have already accomplished that part. ... http://www.caltac.org/blog/?p=11 I’m excited about the CLA/CSLA/CALTAC Legislative Day coming up on April 20. I remember the first time I participated in this. I was scared to look any legislator in the eye lest I should somehow end up having to speak! And, boy, did my feet hurt ... http://www.caltac.org/blog/?p=2