News & Announcements

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SIG-IFP E-mail Discussion List

Instructions for joining the discussion list can be found on the ASIS&T website: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigifp-l

To post a message to all the members, send email to: sigifp-l@asis.org

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New SIG-IFP website!

The ASIS&T Information Policy SIG website has a new look. It is our hope that this website will provide valuable information and links to resources and issues of interest in the area of Information Policy. If you have suggestions for ways we can make this site a more useful resource for you or how we can help facilitate communication among SIG-IFP members, please feel free to contact us.

Section 108 Study Group

Your IFP SIG president joined leading copyright experts including Mary Minow (librarylaw.com), Kenny Crews (Samuel R. Rosen II Professor in the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis) and Miriam M. Nisbet (Legislative Counsel, American Library Association), other  representatives of the library and archive community and numerous publisher/content providers in order to participate in the U.S. Copyright Office Section 108 Study Group’s Roundtable discussion on revision of Section 108 held in Chicago on January 31st. What is Section 108? Section 108 is the provision of the copyright law designed specifically for libraries and archives. For more see http://www.loc.gov/section108/ This study group (and report/recommendation) process is possibly the most significant development in copyright law affecting libraries and archives since the Copyright Act of 1976. The Study Group recommendation may include enlarging the range of entities that could benefit from reproduction and distribution rights of section 108 to include museums and campus media centers, increasing the privileges or use rights regarding archiving and digitalization of materials and accessibility of that content by remote users but may also include additional obligations or conditions of use upon the institution. Stay tuned for more on this development.

ASIS&T Annual Meeting

The 2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting will be held October 18-25, 2007 in Milwaukee, WI. Call for Papers Deadlines and Submission Guidelines can be found on-line at: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/am07cfp.html

New C-Mini

The first new feature of the website we’re rolling out takes advantage of the many great lectures, presentations, etc. that are offered throughout the year, outside of the formal conference network but that may nonetheless be of great interest to SIG members in the area of information policy. "C-mini" (conference in miniature) offers links to lectures of interest related to information policy that have been recorded and are available on the Internet from SIG member institutions, organizations, etc. Take a look at the current cluster of initial submissions from the International Information Policy Colloquia from the Center of Information Policy Research at UW-Milwaukee. Visit the C-Mini page >>