Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts, August 2022

Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts v.8 n. 8, August 2022

Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts support the committee's mission to monitor governmental activities and social justice issues affecting the professional interests of ARLIS/NA and to keep the ARLIS/NA membership informed. The monthly alerts are intended to be conversation starters, help members keep up on public policy issues and alert members to new developments. The articles compiled in the News Alerts bring to the forefront recent news from a range of perspectives designed to elicit discussion; they are not compiled to represent the views of ARLIS as an organization or the members of the Advocacy and Public Policy Committee.

Previous issues can be found here: https://www.arlisna.org/news/appc-news-alert

Activism and Social Justice in the Arts

• Aboagye, Dalvin. “Monticello Artists Creating The Black Library in Their Hometown.” Times Union, August 5, 2022.   
• Anania, Billy. "Canadian Authorities Move to Evict Indigenous Protest Encampments." Hyperallergic, August 26, 2022.
• Anania, Billy. "Artists Chased Out of Manhattan Park by Police." Hyperallergic, August 19, 2022.
• Arrow, Michelle and Bongiorno, Frank. “What good is a new national cultural policy without history?” The Conversation, August 17, 2022. 
• Liu, Jasmine. "Citing “Institutional Racist Violence,” Half of the Wisconsin Triennial Artists Withdraw Their Work." Hyperallergic, August 23, 2022.
• Rockett, Darcel. ”Recent SAIC exhibit ’Exploring Black Girlhood: Through the Artist’s Eyes’ shows off the artistry of Black girls — and the progress of a Chicago nonprofit.” Chicago Tribune, August 2, 2022.
• Velie, Elaine. “New Law Requires NY Museums to Label Nazi-Looted Art.” Hyperallergic, August 17, 2022.

Copyright and Licensing

• Anania, Billy. "Book Publishers Go to War With the Internet Archive." Hyperallergic, August 16, 2022.
• “Canada Moves to Alter Copyright Law to the Benefit of Artists.” Artforum, August 8, 2022.
• Gormley, Holland. “Should I Opt Out From CCB Proceedings?” Library of Congress, August 10, 2022.
• Green, Cable. “A Big Win for Open Access: United States Mandates All Publicly Funded Research Be Freely Available with No Embargo.” Creative Commons, August 26, 2022.
• Hall, Alison. “Junior Fellow’s Personal Experience with Copyright.” Library of Congress, August 30, 2022.
• Kim, Rachel. “August 2022 Roundup of Copyright News.” Copyright Alliance, September 1, 2022.
• Madigan, Kevin. “Amicus Briefs Reveal Warhol Foundation’s Flawed Transformative Use Theory.” Copyright Alliance, August 30, 2022.
• Willman, Chris. “Taylor Swift Slaps Back at ‘Shake It Off’ Plagiarism Lawsuit, Says She’d Never Heard Plaintiffs’ ‘Playas Gon’ Play’.” Variety, August 8, 2022.
• Woolf, Marie. “Copyright Law Reform Will Allow Canadian Artists to Cash In When Their Work is Resold.” The Canadian Press, August 6, 2022.
• U.S. Copyright Office. “U.S. Copyright Office Concludes Study on Deferred Registration Examination.” NewsNet, Issue 976, August 1, 2022.

Funding

• Bhasin, Punya. “University Library System Receives $1 Million Grant to Fund the August Wilson Archive.” The Pitt News, August 18, 2022.  
• Brink, Megan. "The Future of the NEH: Q&A With Chair Shelly Lowe." Inside Higher Ed, September 1, 2022.
• Bahr, Sarah. “National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $31.5 Million in Grants.” The New York Times, August 16, 2022.
• Creative Commons. "Press Release: New Four-Year, $4 Million Open Climate Campaign Will Open Knowledge to Solve Challenges in Climate and Biodiversity." August 30, 2022.
• Kleiman, Eliana Tang. "PLA awards $1.1 million to 160 public libraries to conduct digital literacy workshops." ALA News, August 16, 2022.
• Liu, Jasmine. “Noguchi Museum Is Opening the Artist’s Studio to Visitors." Hyperallergic, August 22, 2022.
• Price, Gary. “UIUC School of Information Sciences: New Project to Assist Libraries with Data Storytelling.” Library Journal InfoDOCKET, August 31, 2022.
• Sutton, Benjamin. “Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Receives $8m in State Funding for Major Renovation.” The Art Newspaper - International Art News and Events, August 17, 2022. 
• “Spencer Museum Receives $250K from Institute of Museum and Library Services.” The University of Kansas, August 31, 2022. 
• Woodcock, Claire. “This Town Voted To Defund Its Public Library After It Included LGBTQ+ Books.” Vice, August 5, 2022.

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access (IDEA)

• Aiwuyor, Jessica. “ALA/ARL Approve Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity: A Framework.” Association of Research Libraries, August 23, 2022. 
• “ASU Librarian on a Mission to ‘reclaim and Repatriate’ Indigenous Knowledge,” Arizona State University News, August 22, 2022.
• Christopher, Rob. "ALA Editions Special Report explores Black and African American students’ experiences in libraries." ALA News, August 26, 2022.
• Goek, Sara. “PLA Releases First Staff and Diversity Survey Report.” ALA News, August 23, 2022. 
• Goek, Sara. “American Library Association (ALA) Condemns Proposed State Legislation Limiting Access to Information on Reproductive Health.” ALA News, August 9, 2022. 
• “LSU expanding efforts to digitize Louisiana’s diverse cultural institutions.” Louisiana State University Libraries News and Notes, August 2, 2022.
• Valle, Jay. “Residents Raise Almost $100,000 for Michigan Library Defunded over LGBTQ Books.” NBC News, August 11, 2022. 
• Woodcock, Claire. “District Attorney Considers Prosecuting Librarians for Stocking LGBTQ Books.” Vice, August 11, 2022. 

Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information

• Ballentine, Summer. “Missouri to ban sexual images in school library books.” The Washington Post, August 26, 2022. 
• Dalea, Natalie. “7 Ways to Honor Banned Books Week This September.” The Portalist, August 29, 2022.
• Finn, James. ”Teacher yanked from classroom for helping teens get library cards.” Los Angeles Blade, August 25, 2022.
• Gwinn, Lane. ”Dayton Library Director shares information about book choices for the library.” The Waitsburg Times, August 25, 2022.
• Jensen, Kelly. “States That Have Enacted Book Ban Laws: Book Censorship News, August 26, 2022.” BOOK RIOT, August 26, 2022.
• King, Cathy. “The New WorldCat.Org Expands the Impact of Libraries Everywhere | OCLC.” OCLC Next, August 30, 2022.
• Price, Gary. “OCLC Officially Announces the Launch of a ‘Redesigned and Reimagined’ WorldCat.Org.” Library Journal InfoDOCKET, August 24, 2022. 
• Sullivan, Margaret. “Perspective | Book Bans Are Threatening American Democracy. Here’s How to Fight Back.” The Washington Post, August 9, 2022.
• Wong, Alia. “‘The perfect target’? Movement to ban books from schools brings vitriol toward librarians.” USA Today, August 24, 2022.
  

Technology and Digital Privacy

• Chin, Monica. “University Can’t Scan Students’ Rooms during Remote Tests, Judge Rules.” The Verge, August 23, 2022. 
• D’Agostino, Susan. “The Vulnerability of Student Reproductive Health Data.” Inside Higher Ed, August 17, 2022. 
• Gebhart, Gennie. “Bad Data ‘For Good’: How Data Brokers Try to Hide Behind Academic Research.” Electronic Frontier Foundation, August 16, 2022. 
• Halperin, Jennie Rose. “Improving Digital Access to Local News Through Library-Newsroom Collaboration.” Library Futures, August 23, 2022. 
• Kingsbury, Alex. “We’re About to Find Out What Happens When Privacy Is All but Gone.” The New York Times, August 23, 2022. 
• Ng, Alfred. “Privacy Bill Triggers Lobbying Surge by Data Brokers.” POLITICO, August 28, 2022. 
• Sharp, Sarah Rose. “New ‘Brain Painting’ Tech Promises to Cure ADHD.” Hyperallergic, August 14, 2022.
• Sharp, Sarah Rose. "OnlyBans Allows Users to Understand the Realities of Digital Sex Work." Hyperallergic, August 24, 2022.
• Spoto, Maia. “Rural Digital Divide Complicates Virtual Court Participation.” Bloomberg Law, August 29, 2022. 
• Stein, Carolyn. “Inside the Campaign to Save Ukraine’s Digital Footprint.” The Stanford Daily, August 17, 2022.

Workplace

• Allison. “President Biden appoints Jim Neal, University Librarian Emeritus, to National Museum and Library Services Board, among other recent honors.” Columbia University Libraries Blog, August 18, 2022. 
• "Columbus Museum of Art Staff Push to Unionize." Artforum, August 30, 2022.
• Kennedy, Dana. “NYC prep school parents livid over ‘woke’ librarian suspended from Twitter for ‘hate speech.’” New York Post, August 23, 2022.  
• Liu, Jasmine. "Orlando Museum Leaders Resign Amid Fake Basquiats Scandal." Hyperallergic, August 29, 2022.
• Liu, Jasmine. “Philadelphia Museum Workers Vote for Strike as Union Talks Stall.” Hyperallergic, August 31, 2022.
• Mattei, Shanti Escalante-De. “MASS MoCA Workers to Strike Amid Union Contract Negotiations.” ARTnews, August 15, 2022.
•  Roeder, David. “Newberry Library Workers Go Public with Union Organizing Campaign,” Chicago Sun-Times, August 15, 2022.
• Sutton, Benjamin. “US President Biden Names Influential Museum Leaders to Institute of Museum and Library Services Advisory Board,” The Art Newspaper - International Art News and Events, August 15, 2022. 
• Toussaint, Kristin. “Inside the Drive to Bring ‘Cultural Workers’ into the Labor Movement.” Fast Company, August 30, 2022.
• Velie, Elaine. "Museums Must Post Salaries in Job Ads, Says US Museum Org." Hyperallergic, August 22, 2022.
• White House. “President Biden announces key appointments to boards and commissions.” White House Briefing Room, August 12, 2022.

Miscellaneous

• Clark, Nell. “A Librarian Collects All the Things Left in Books — from Love Letters to Old Photos.” NPR, August 2, 2022.
• Greenberger, Alex. “Galileo Manuscript Owned by the University of Michigan Has Been Revealed as a Fake.” ARTnews, August 18, 2022.
• International Council of Museums. "ICOM Approves a New Museum Definition." International Council of Museums, August 24, 2022.
• Liu, Jasmine. "Carefully Worded Definition of "Museum" Eschews Neutrality." Hyperallergic, August 25, 2022.
• Mattei, Shanti Escalante-De. “Architectural Digest Altered Photos to Edit Out Allegedly Looted Artifacts from Billionaire’s Daughter’s Home.” ARTnews, August 16, 2022.
• Tumin, Remy “Kentucky’s Floods Took Appalachian History With Them.” The New York Times, August 4, 2022.
• Velie, Elaine. "Over 90% of Medieval Manuscripts Have Been Lost, Study Says." Hyperallergic, August 17, 2022.
• Waldron, Travis. “They Never Knew The Water Could Get That High.” Huffington Post, August 22, 2022. 

This issue of News Alerts was compiled by Freyja Catton, Carrie Evans, Sarah Hamerman, Kate Marcus, and Petra Warren.