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Issue: # 32
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October 26, 2009
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ILA Passes Resolution on 2009 Reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act
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Following the lead of library associations in Vermont, New York, Arizona, California, Oklahoma, and Oregon, the ILA Quick Response Team passed a resolution on Friday, which reads in part:
1. Opposes initiatives on the part of the United States government to constrain the free expression of ideas or to inhibit the use of libraries;
2. Urges Congress to repeal the USA PATRIOT Act's expanded National Security Letter Section 505 and Section 215 authorities that allow the FBI to demand information about people who are not targets of an investigation and to reinstate standards limiting the use of these authorities to obtain information only about terrorism suspects and agents of foreign powers.
3. Urges Congress to allow nondisclosure or "gag" orders of limited scope and duration only when necessary to protect national security and only upon the authority of a court, and ensure that targets of such orders have a meaningful right to challenge them before a fair and neutral arbiter.
4. Urges Congress to intensify its oversight of the use of the USA PATRIOT Act as well as other government surveillance and investigations that limit the privacy rights of library users, library employees, and U.S. persons; and
5. Communicates this resolution to Illinois's Congressional Delegation; and
6. Urges its members, Illinois librarians, Illinois library trustees, and all library advocates to ask Congress to restore crucial safeguards protecting civil liberties.
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2009 ILA Annual Conference Information Online
 If you were unable to attend the 2009 ILA Annual Conference
in Peoria, the conference is now coming to you!
Our Speakers' Series was recorded for podcast and you can now listen to
Al Gini's "Lincoln's Critical Tasks of Transformational Leadership" and Thomas Galante's "Transformation: See Tomorrow Today" on the ILA Web site.
In addition, many of the conference program handouts
are available online.
Many thanks to everyone who made the 2009 ILA Annual
Conference a success. Mark your calendar
for the 2010 Annual Conference -- Libraries Out Loud -- which will be held at Chicago's Navy Pier,
September 28-October 1. The conference program proposal form is available on the ILA Web site; proposals are due January 11, 2010. |
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Sincerely,
Robert P. Doyle
Illinois Library Association |
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