Category: Government Relations
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ILA Legislative Meetup
On February 1, I attended the Illinois Library Association’s (ILA) Legislative Meet-up at the Harold Washington Library. Both state and federally elected leaders were invited to meet with librarians from across the city. I wanted to learn more about our state library’s legislative priorities and have an opportunity to speak to elected officials face-to-face alongside…
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CALL Government Relations Committee 2017-2018 Annual Report
Members: Sally Holterhoff, Jeff Meyerowitz, Keely Ward CALL Board Liaison: Todd Ito The Government Relations Committee held a survey this year to get a better sense of CALL member’s representation and pertinent policy interests to CALL members. The policies were taken from AALL’s public policy initiatives, The survey lasted three weeks and yielded 35 responses.
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Government Relations Committee Annual Report
Membership Joe Mitzenmacher, Committee Chair Eugene Giudice Sally Holterhoff Dave Rogers Konya Lafferty, Board Liaison Objectives The main charge of the Committee is to monitor issues of interest to the law library community and report on those issues to the membership. The Committee’s projects for 2016-17 were to update CALL’s “Finding Illinois Law Guide,” to…
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Government Relations Committee 2016 Annual Report
The 2015-2016 Government Relations Committee was Clare Hoyt and Joe Mitzenmacher (co-chairs), Justin Franklin, Tom Gaylord, Sally Holterhoff, and Matt Timko.
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CALL Awards Representative Mike Quigley Legislator of the Year
In August, CALL leadership visited the offices of Representative Mike Quigley to award him Legislator of the Year on the basis of his “outstanding leadership and commitment to open access to government information.” Rep. Quigley has represented the 5th Congressional District of Illinois since August, 2009 and is well known for his commitment to open…
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AALL Government Relations Office Legislative Advocacy Efforts
In the Winter 2016 issue of the CALL Bulletin, Tom Gaylord provided us with information on AALL and ALA advocacy tools. If you are looking for a way to put those advocacy tools to use, Emily Feltren, the Director of AALL’s Government Relations Office (GRO), gave an online advocacy training session on March 9 which…
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Advocacy Tools from AALL and ALA
One of the charges of CALL’s Government Relations Committee includes monitoring other associations and their advocacy work and, from time to time, informing CALL’s membership of those activities. In this column, rather than focus on a specific issue, let’s take some time to look at some of the advocacy resources provided by some of these…
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Annual Reports: Government Relations Committee
Membership Joe Mitzenmacher, Committee Co-Chair Konya Lafferty, Committee Co-Chair Todd Ito Tom Gaylord Jamie Sommer, Board Liaison Clare Hoyt Thomas Drueke Eugene Giudice Objectives The main charge of the Government Relations Committee is to monitor issues of interest to the law library community and report on those issues to the membership. The goal was to…
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February 2015 Business Meeting Round-Up
CALL held its third Business Meeting of the year at Morton’s Steakhouse, 65 E. Wacker Place, on February 26, 2015. President Margaret Schilt called the meeting to order at noon and praised the Meetings Committee for finding a great new venue. Margaret welcomed one new CALL member, Peter Kaiser from Bloomberg BNA.
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Giving Thanks for Kip Kolkmeier’s Efforts to Pass UELMA in Illinois
The CALL Executive Board approved a resolution of thanks that I was pleased to deliver to the Illinois Library Association (ILA) at its annual meeting in Springfield on October 15th. The well-attended Members’ Meeting was held at 11:30 a.m., and I was there in plenty of time to surprise Kip Kolkmeier, the ILA Legislative Consultant…
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