Title Varies Slightly

Another ALA resolution:
At the 2007 Midwinter Conference, ALA Council Referred, CD#38, Resolution on Accessible Digitization Projects Resolution to ASCLA and
requested a report at the 2007 Annual Conference. ASCLA offers this
Amendment to CD #38
Accessible Digitization Projects Resolution:
WHEREAS, ALA Policy 54.3.2 states that “library materials must be accessible to all patrons including people with disabilities”; [...]

Below, the full text of the successful ALA resolution:
Resolution on Funding for the National Library Service
WHEREAS, Since 1931, the United States Congress has supported a national library accessible to people who are blind, and
WHEREAS, In 1966, Congress authorized the Library of Congress’ National Library Service to provide Talking Books services to all persons who [...]

This week, the guys at Unshelved are doing a library-based riff on those Mac / PC commercials. Send the URLs to your library administrators, trustees, and tech geeks who think “it’s all on the Web.”
INaccessibility note: Sorry, no alt text on the images. Get someone to read them to you, if you need to? [...]

Random comments from my DC conference / tourist experience:

Went to vigil Mass at St. Patrick. Actually heard the priest preach about the sanctity of life! “This passage shows clearly that God is in love with us from the womb. … We must love life from the womb. It is just that simple.”
Today was a day [...]

To people who follow library issues, Michael Gorman writing on Web 2.0 puts one in mind of, well, let’s say Phyllis Schlafly on the Equal Rights Amendment. You may not agree with everything said, but the arguments will be elegantly stated, and the terms of the argument subtly but significantly shifted from the platitudes of [...]

actually they are not; but I can’t resist a song reference in a blog post title.
Tomorrow I head out to join over 13,000 of my colleagues at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Washington DC. The phone number I need to summon shuttle vans to help me cope with broken Metro elevators is in [...]

They say that, under times of stress, we generate endorphins by listening to music from our adolescence. That’s probably why, at this stressful time of year, I couldn’t avoid buying this. Once as a digital download, and then the CD, for sending to a friend of mine.
If you’re already sure I’ve lost it, I won’t [...]

The competing project that is seeking funding is a modification of House office space. When a legislator (sorry this isn’t C-SPAN so I don’t know who’s who) said Congress should be funding NLS, not “ourselves.” Not to be dissuaded, a Minnesota legislator decided to play us against each other by bringing up the lack of [...]

Streaming Congressional hearing on an amendment to restore funding. RIGHT THIS MINUTE (12:39 PM Eastern)
http://appropriations.house.gov/Subcommittees/sub_leg.shtml
Click on the WEBCAST link on the right side of the page.

Updating this important story from Planet of the Blind and Wheelie Catholic, I’m pleased to report that responsible people in the American Library Association are taking action to advocate for full funding of the NLS Talking Book service. ALA is a big ol’ bureaucracy, but we can sometimes respond quickly and decisively on urgent [...]