Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts, May 2022

Advocacy & Public Policy Committee News Alerts support the committee's mission to monitor governmental activities and social justice issues affecting the professional interests of ARLIS/NA and to keep the ARLIS/NA membership informed. The monthly alerts are intended to be conversation starters, help members keep up on public policy issues and alert members to new developments. The articles compiled in the News Alerts bring to the forefront recent news from a range of perspectives designed to elicit discussion; they are not compiled to represent the views of ARLIS as an organization or the members of the Advocacy and Public Policy Committee.

Previous issues can be found here: https://www.arlisna.org/news/appc-news-alert

Activism and Social Justice in the Arts 

• Halle, Howard. “15 Essential Works by Photographer Gordon Parks, Who Chronicled African American Life.” ARTnews.Com, May 24, 2022 
• Sharp, Sarah Rose. “Woman Finds 2,000-Year-Old Roman Bust at a Texas Goodwill.” Hyperallergic, May 8, 2022.
• Solomon, Tessa. “How a Former KKK Headquarters in Texas Is Being Transformed into a Center for Arts and Healing.” ARTnews.Com, May 26, 2022. 
• Velie, Elaine. “Margaret Atwood Protests Book Banning With Fireproof Copy of The Handmaid’s Tale.” Hyperallergic, May 25, 2022.
• Villa, Angelica. “Albers Foundation to Launch New Museum in Senegal Aimed at Housing Restituted Artifacts.” ARTnews.Com, May 16, 2022. 

Copyright and Licensing

• Connal, Sulina. “Google Licenses Content from News Publishers under the EU Copyright Directive.” Google Blog, May 11, 2022. 
• “Creative Commons Condemns Rejection of Wikimedia Chapters as Observers at WIPO SCCR.” Creative Commons, May 10, 2022. 
• Françoise, Camille, and Brigitte Vézina. “Eight Case Studies Show Opportunities, Challenges, and Needs of Low-Capacity and Non-Western Cultural Heritage Institutions.” Creative Commons, May 4, 2022. 
• Rutledge, Virginia. "The stakes of a copyright case being heard by the US Supreme Court go way beyond Andy Warhol." The Art Newspaper, May 6, 2022.
• Samuelson, Pamela. "Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith: The Supreme Court Revisits Transformative Fair Uses." Kluwer Copyright Blog, May 9, 2022.
• Sharp, Sarah Rose. “There’s No Place Like Court! ‘Dorothy Dress’ at Center of Ownership Suit.” Hyperallergic, May 25, 2022. 
• U.S. Copyright Office. “Updates to List of Acceptable File Types.” NewsNet, Issue 962. May 10, 2022. 
• U.S. Copyright Office. “U.S. Copyright Office Issues a Supplemental Interim Rule Related to the Music Modernization Act Reports of Usage and Payment.” NewsNet, Issue 964. May 24, 2022.  
• Vézina, Brigitte, and Ony Anukem. “Virtual Workshop Recap: Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage.” Creative Commons, May 17, 2022. 
• Vézina, Brigitte, and Ony Anukem. “Announcing the Winners of CC Open Culture Remix Art Contest 2022 #CCSharesCulture.” Creative Commons, May 24, 2022. 

Funding

• Cline, Allison. "2022 AASL Research Grants Awarded." ALA News, May 12, 2022.
• Dowling, Michael. "ALA announces Ukraine Library Relief Fund." ALA News, May 4, 2022.
• Levine, Jenny. "Five projects receive 2022 AIA/ALA Library Building Award." ALA News, May 19, 2022. 
• “Library of Congress Awards More than $250,000 to Inaugural Projects Highlighting Uses of Digital Collections.” Library of Congress, May 4, 2022.
• Solomon, Tessa. “Andy Warhol Foundation Commits $350,000 to Ukrainian Emergency Relief Aid.” ARTnews.Com, May 17, 2022. 
• Grosskreutz, Stephanie.  “Ringling College Receives $600,000 Gift for Alfred R. Goldstein Library, Scholarships.” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, May 17, 2022.

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility (IDEA)

• Back, Tami. “William & Mary Libraries Announces New Archive of American LGBTQ Political and Legal History.” William & Mary, May 18, 2022. 
• Burgess, Anna. “Harvard Scholar at Risk Works to Save Manipur’s Indigenous Culture.” Harvard Gazette, May 17, 2022. 
• DiBenedetto, Chase. “Too Many Used Books? Want to Help Literacy Efforts? Here’s What to Do.” Mashable, May 25, 2022. 
• Ettarh, Fobazi, and Chris Vidas. “‘The Future of Libraries:’ Vocational Awe in a ‘Post-COVID’ World.” The Serials Librarian. Routledge, May 4, 2022.
• Feldman, Sari. “Why the MLIS Is a Powerful Weapon in Fighting Book Bans.” PublishersWeekly.Com, May 23, 2022. 
• “Mayor Adams Selects People’s Theatre Project to Own, Operate First-of-Its-Kind Immigrant Research And Performing Arts Center.” New York City press release. May 19, 2022.
• Owen, Victoria, and Pascal Calarco. “Canadian and US Academic Libraries Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day by Working Together to Facilitate Access for the Print Disabled.” Association of Research Libraries, May 19, 2022. 
• St. Thomas, Linda, and Madeleine Weyland-Geise. “Smithsonian Adopts Policy on Ethical Returns.” Smithsonian Institution, May 3, 2022. 
• Tan, Ivy. “Library of Virginia Displaying Rare Documents with Information on Free Black Individuals for Juneteenth.” WRIC ABC 8News, May 19, 2022. 
• “Almost One Billion Children and Adults with Disabilities and Older Persons in Need of Assistive Technology Denied Access, According to New Report,” World Health Organization, May 16, 2022. 

Intellectual Freedom/Access to Information

• Hines, Shawnda K. "More than 25 Organizations Join Forces with the American Library Association to Unite Against Book Bans." ALA News, May 9, 2022.
• Ingram, David. “Book ban efforts by conservative parents take aim at the library apps.” NBC News, May 12, 2022.
• Rahmanan, Anna. “The New York Public Library Is Urging New Yorkers to Read These 10 Banned Books.” TimeOut New York, May 24, 2022.
• Natanson, Hannah. “The next Book Ban: States Aim to Limit Titles Students Can Search For.” Washington Post, May 10, 2022.

Digital Privacy 

• Brodkin, Jon. "'War upon end-to-end encryption': EU wants Big Tech to scan private messages." Ars Technica. May 11, 2022.
• Brookin, Jon. "Google Urged to Stop Tracking Location Data Ahead of Roe Reversal." Wired, May 26, 2022.
• Campuzano, Eder. "Legislature weighs limits on how schools, companies use data of Minnesota students." Star Tribune, May 8, 2022.
• Davis, Jessica. "Still recovering, Oklahoma clinic confirms ransomware attack, data breach." SC Magazine. May 10, 2022.
• "DEA Investigating Breach of Law Enforcement Data Portal." Krebs on Security, May 12, 2022.
• Rigot, Afsaneh. "If Tech Fails to Design for the Most Vulnerable, It Fails Us All" Wired, May 15, 2022.

Technology

• Burgess, Matt. "How GDPR Is Failing." Wired, May 23, 2022.
• Dave, Paresh. "U.S. cities are backing off banning facial recognition as crime rises." Reuters, May 12, 2022.
• Kenyon, Tilly. "Payments giant Stripe and Snowflake to unify data streams." Technology Magazine, May 20, 2022.
• Tuck, Alex. "Infosys and Roland-Garros launch AR/VR and STEM initiatives." Technology Magazine, May 30, 2022.
• Vaughn, Shannon. "How lightweight encryption can protect critical infrastructure for smart cities." GCN, May 9, 2022.

Workplace

• Di-Liscia, Valentina. "'Brazen' Couple Tries to Walk Out of Manhattan Gallery With a Basquiat." Hyperallergic, May 26, 2022.
• Ellis-Gibbs, Briana. "The Precarious Lives of Freelance Photographers on the Frontlines." Hyperallergic, May 30, 2022.
• Greenberger, Alex. “School of the Art Institute of Chicago Adjuncts and Lecturers Push to Join Unionization Effort.” ARTnews.Com, May 10, 2022.
• Liu, Jasmine. "American Museum of Natural History Workers Vote to Unionize." Hyperallergic, May 26, 2022.
• Solomon, Tessa. “Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art Employees Allege Toxic Workplace Environment in Letter.” ARTnews.Com, May 17, 2022. 

This issue of News Alerts was compiled by Freyja Catton, Jessica Craig, Carrie Evans, Sarah Hamerman, Kate Marcus, and Petra Warren.