Announcements

The 2009 SCALL Holiday Party is scheduled for Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at Anna's Italian Restaurant on West Pico Blvd. We hope to see you there! Download the registration form HERE

Public Access to Legal Information Committee (PALI) is pleased to announce the publication of the fifth edition of Locating the Law: A Handbook for Non-Law Librarians (2009). The entire 250-page publication is freely available for download HERE

In addition, on behalf of MaryRuth and Mary Alice, the SCALL board has submitted a letter to the Honorable Henry Waxman (D, Los Angeles), Chair, House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, in support of The Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007 (HR 1193), introduced by Rep. Waxman to nullify a 2001 Presidential Executive order, and which would restore access to Presidential records.
Letter to Rep. Waxman

SCALL has also signed on to letters sent to the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker, US House of Representatives, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Robert Bennett, and Representatives Juanita Millender-McDonald and Vernon Ehlers, in support of direct access to Congressional Research
Service Reports.
Letter to Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Letter to Sens. Feinstein and Bennett
Letter to Reps. Millender-McDonald and Ehlers

In addition, SCALL has submitted a letter to the Hon. Jerry Lewis, Ranking Member, House Appropriations Committee, in support of full funding of the GPO, signed a petition advocating publicly funded research in the U.S. and signed onto a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in support of the Open Government Act of 2007.Full Funding
See Petition