Petition for free access to PACER

Hello folks,

Below is an email explaining how you can sign the PACER petition that was mentioned in Sunday’s keynote address at AALL.

Thanks,

Chris

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Chris Long

Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis

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Hey Everyone,

Erika Wayne has asked that we post the message below to our lists. It provides a like to where people can sign the petition asking the government to make PACER access free to depository libraries. Free PACER access is one of the issues being addressed by the AALL Government Relations Office, and this petition was touched on by the AALL Annual Meeting keynote speaker Jonathan Zittrain.

If anyone would like to see (and sign) the PACER petition that Jonathan Zittrain talked about in his keynote address, it is here:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/improve-pacer

And, if you can, please share this petition with your colleagues, faculty, students and alumni.

Let us make Jonathan Zittrain proud and get a *lot* more signatures!

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks and take care,

Erika

Some AALL2009 programs available free on web

The Capital Crier reports that free video recordings will be available for seven of the sessions from the 2009 annual conference. I was not able to access the seven at the link given in the Capital Crier, but did find everything for sale at AALL2go. Which I suppose is also helpful.

Opening session

Here's a link to a discussion of the opening session, including a link to the slideshow at the beginning, and also the parts of Zittrain's speech that were expressly about libraries.

I'd forgotten the whole library as noun, verb and adjective thing --