Advice of Council

摘要

It was an unusually fast three sessions of the ALA Council, despite several slowdowns over procedural matters. Many councilors expressed concern later over the lack of time to debate items on the agenda of the third very short session on Tuesday, July 1. ALA Council enjoyed widespread consensus on what the U.S. government should do: it passed a resolution reaffirming support for net neutrality, one on digitization and preservation of government documents, and one supporting restoration of funding to air force base and command libraries back to FY11 levels, all by large margins. A resolution on granting the Washington, DC, government budget autonomy for city services, including libraries, during federal government shutdowns passed as well.