It's our regular visit with the head of the American Library Association, Loriene Roy.
The American Library Association has just issued a statement demanding that library access to the e-books impacted by this decision be restored.
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"We're very happy about it, " says Miriam Nisbett, legislative counsel for the American Library Association, which served as one of the petitioners in the case.
Missing were the kind of sparks you'd expect when, say, representatives of the American Library Association share a drafty hotel ballroom with members of Family-Friendly Libraries.
However, the American Library Association claims the program has revolutionized libraries, allowing them to provide public Internet access and other services that would disappear if the program were cut.
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That isn't to say that Bruce Ennis, lead counsel for a coalition of 20 plaintiffs that included the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Library Association, didn't suffer his share of interruptions.
The author won a number of awards for his work, including the Hans Christian Andersen medal for illustration in 1970 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association in 1983.
Along with CCIA, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, Ebay, Redbox, Overstock.com and others have joined ORI in a collective effort to secure legislative protections for the first sale doctrine.
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Although they have suffered their share of slings and arrows from recent budget cuts and shorter hours, the American Library Association reports that in the decade ending in 2009, there was actually a net public library increase.
Kirtsaeng has attracted a large number of amicus briefs, with the American Library Association, Costco, eBay, Goodwill Industries International, Google, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, and a group of leading American art museums backing Kirtsaeng.
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Here in Washington this weekend, at the annual Convention of the American Library Association, delegates got a rare peek at the workings of a secret panel - the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, which authorizes wiretaps on people in the United States.
The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom released its annual list of most frequently challenged books of 2011 yesterday, and the increased popularity of Suzanne Collins' dystopian saga -- in large part fueled by buzz surrounding the blockbuster film -- drove the books higher on the list.
One official, who declined to be quoted, said all subscribers received their copy of the June issue but confirmed that extra copies were not distributed at the upcoming American Library Association, as was the custom.
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