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All new content of the Legislation Committee will be found in the GODORT Wiki at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Legislation. This will include Meeting Minutes from the 2008 Annual Conference and the 2008-2009 committee directory.

• National Library Legislative Day 2007
• ALA Washington Office Legislative Action Center
• "How to Use the Federal FOI (Freedom of Information) Act" (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 9th edition, 2004)
• "Justice Department Guide to the Freedom of Information Act" (U.S. Department of Justice, May 2004)
• National Action Alert Network Guidelines -- from the GODORT Policies and Procedures Manual -- The NAAN is activated when immediate action needs to be taken on legislation.

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Important Legislation/Issues in the Current Congress (110th)

• Congressional Research Service Clamps Down on Public Distribution (March 22, 2007)

Important Legislation/Issues from Past Congresses can be found here

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• Guidelines for the Preparation of Resolutions for Council 
• Checklist of Resolutions Passed by GODORT: 1973 - 2006

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• GPO Office of Congressional Relations
• Joint Committee on Printing (JCP)
• American Library Association
  • ALA Policy Manual
  • ALA Federal Legislative Policy Handbook (pdf file)
  • Committee on Legislation
  • ALA Washington Office
    • ALAWON
  • Office of Information Technology and Policy
• American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)
  • Washington Affairs Office
• Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
  • Federal Relations and Information Policy Program
• Medical Library Association (MLA)
  • Information Issues and Policy
• Special Libraries Association (SLA)
  • Public Policy Update
• OpentheGovernment.org
• U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
  • Government Information Policy  

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