Category: Government Relations
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FOIA Reform Amendment in Illinois
Illinois House Bill 3796, which amends the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (5 ILCS 140), was recently enacted into law as Public Act 98-1129. This bill has been quite controversial, with many opponents arguing that it weakens the current provisions of FOIA. One such opponent was Governor Quinn, who vetoed the bill in its entirety…
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Annual Reports: Government Relations Committee
Submitted July 8, 2014 MEMBERSHIP Joe Mitzenmacher, committee co-chair (jmitze1@luc.edu) Konya Lafferty, committee co-chair (klafferty@illinoiscourt.gov) Pam Zadenetz (pzadenetz@gmail.com) Todd Ito (tito@uchicago.edu) Tom Gaylord (tgaylord@kentlaw.iit.edu) Jamie Sommer, Board Liason (jamie.sommer@law.northwestern.edu) Emily Janoski-Haehlen (Emily.janoskihaehlen@valpo.edu) Michael Verderame (mcverderame@gmail.com) Walter Baumann (WBAUMANN@depaul.edu) OBJECTIVES Promoting UELMA in Illinois was the main project for the year. Education on UELMA for committee…
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Federal Government Information on the Web: Here Today … Where Tomorrow?
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) devoted a recent two-day program to the vulnerability of digital government information, and one of the highlights was an important discussion of the special risks for “born-digital” information published online by the federal government, led by Jim Jacobs, Data Services Librarian Emeritus of the University of California at San…
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IL Legislative Update: Senate Bill 3288
In Illinois, a version of the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (“UELMA”) is currently working its way through the 98th General Assembly (as Senate Bill 1941), but UELMA isn’t the only pending Illinois legislation that could affect the production and dissemination of government-produced legal information in electronic formats. In February, Illinois Senator Pat McGuire introduced Senate Bill 3288, which, if enacted, would make two key…
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Kip Kolkmeier: Advocate for Illinois Libraries
Those of us who attended the November CALL business meeting were given a treat when our featured speaker, Kip Kolkmeier, provided a rundown on the situation in Springfield. Kip summarized the many issues facing the legislature – not only the usual budget woes and redistricting fights, but the enormous unfunded pension obligation that looms over…
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Federal Depository Library Program still matters, still needs voices of libraries
The post below, reprinted from Kevin McClure’s blog, GovDocsGuy, is a challenge to library directors, so I want to highlight the post again in case you didn’t see it and take a moment to add a prequel that provides one director’s perspective. Now that I have given some thought to the matter, it occurs to…