[Libs-Or] [Fwd: [alacoun] comment request from EPA - FYI]

[Suzanne Sager]

FYI

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Subject: 	[alacoun] comment request from EPA - FYI
Date: 	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:14:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: 	Mary Mallory <mmallory at uiuc.edu>
To: 	<alacoun at ala.org>



Dear ALA Councilors,

Below is an email via Kevin McClure, ALA GODORT Legislation Committee Chair, in which EPA is requesting comments on improving access to environmental information.  (No laughs..., obviously keeping its libraries open is one way.)  Please respond and/or forward as necessary and of interest.  Thank you,

Mary Mallory
ALA GODORT Councilor, 2007-2010
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Date: Tue 15 Apr 12:26:24 CDT 2008
From: "McClure, Kevin" <kmcclure at KENTLAW.EDU> Add To Address Book 
Subject: FW: [aall-advoc] Washington Blawg - EPA Seeks Comments: Help Improve Access to Environmental Information 
To: GODORT-LEG-L at LISTSERV.UIUC.EDU 

Please see below -- EPA is seeking comments.
 
Short link to the blog post: http://tinyurl.com/4vc9y7

Kevin

From: bounce-aall-advoc-62683 at aallnet.org [mailto:bounce-aall-advoc-62683 at aallnet.org] On Behalf Of Emily J. Feldman
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:11 AM
To: AALL Advocacy Discussion
Subject: [aall-advoc] Washington Blawg - EPA Seeks Comments: Help Improve Access to Environmental Information

AALL's Washington Blawg    

EPA Seeks Comments: Help Improve Access to Environmental Information 

Posted: 14 Apr 2008 09:33 AM CDT

What kinds of information do you look for from EPA and how do you use that information? What words do you use when you search for environmental information? How would you like to receive the information you need? Those are some of the questions EPA is asking as part of their National Dialogue on Access to Environmental Information, a new project that will help EPA develop a strategy to improve access to their diverse body of environmental information. Through June, EPA is inviting comments on their public discussion board or via email.

On its website for the new project, EPA says:

“One of our best options is to work with you and others who help us accomplish our mission: protecting human health and the environment. That much is clear from our work with other agencies, organizations and individual people.

What’s less clear is the best way to organize and make available what we have. We also want to give you access to our raw data so you can use it in ways we’ll never think of. That’s why we’re asking you to help.”

This is a great opportunity for law librarians and users of EPA materials to make sure the agency knows what kinds of environmental information you need today and in the future. We are pleased with EPA’s outreach efforts, especially after several years of discussions with the agency about the troubling shutdown of three of their regional libraries and their Headquarters and Chemical Libraries in Washington, D.C., and the recent news that the closed EPA libraries will reopen by September 2008 [see the National Library Network Report to Congress].

[Posted by Emily Feldman]
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Mary Mallory
Head, Government Documents Library
Federal Depository Library 0141
Associate Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
200D Library
1408 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801
Ph.# 217-244-4621
Fax# 217-333-2214
mmallory at uiuc.edu


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Suzanne L. Sager
Library East, Cataloging
Portland State University

503-725-8169
503-725-5799
sagers at pdx.edu

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