[Libs-Or] Fw: [ALACOUN:10909] Message from John W. Berry re: Cuba

[Diedre Conkling]

>Council Colleagues:
>
>With the recent volume of messages regarding Cuba on the 
>Council list,
>I want to provide a very brief update on the joint 
>IFC/IRC Task Force
>looking at this issue.
>
>IFC Chair, Nancy C. Kranich and I (as IRC chair) 
>appointed a joint Task
>Force on Cuba this fall in response to last summer's 
>Council referral of
>an IRC resolution on these issues back to the two 
>committees.
>
>Peg Ottinger, Martin Garnar and Candace Morgan are the 
>IFC
>representatives while Al Kagan, Anne Lipow and I (as 
>convener) represent
>the IRC.
>
>This group has been reviewing and examining a wide range 
>of documents 
>and reports from ALA, IFLA, Amnesty International, Human 
>Rights Watch,
>plus materials provided by members, and other sources 
>(including
>transcript copies that are said  to be from some of 
>trials of Cuban
>dissidents 
>http://www.ruleoflawandcuba.fsu.edu/index.cfm 
>
>The International Relations Office is currently 
>investigating the group
>hosting these documents and is examining the veracity of 
>the documents
>themselves.
>
>The Task Force will meet by conference call next week.
>
>We want to thank Councilors for your comments as the Task 
>Force 
>evaluates these complex and often intensely political 
>issues.
>
>The Task Force will make a recommendation to the full IRC 
>and IFC as we
>move toward the Midwinter
>Meeting next month.
>
>John W. Berry
>Chair, International Relations Committee and Past 
>President
>
>
>-- 
>Professional Address:
>
>John W. Berry
>Executive Director
>NILRC: Network of Illinois Learning Resources in 
>Community Colleges
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>
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>
>John W. Berry
>Past President
>The American Library Association
>
>708.366.0667 (direct voice to John Berry)
>708.366.0728 (direct fax to John Berry)
>
>jberry at nilrc.org 
>
>http://www.nilrc.org 
>and
>http://www.ala.org 
>
>"Information is the currency of democracy." -- Thomas 
>Jefferson
>
>"If information is the currency of democracy, then 
>libraries are the 
>banks." --Wendell
>Ford, former U.S. Senator
>