ALA Emerging Issues

Reminder: COL and IFC will host a discussion about Wikileaks at the ALA Midwinter Meeting on Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 10:30 am in Room 25C of the San Diego Convention Center. Patrice McDermott, executive director of OpenTheGovernment.org, will lead the discussion.

Added the following resources to the Wikileaks pages:

Email Memorandum from the OMB General Counsel to other Agency General Counsels Concerning Wikileaks: Model Agency Notice to Employees
(courtesy Talking Points Memo)

Model Notice to Employees and Contractors Concerning the Safeguarding of Classified Information
Office of Management and Budget

Memorandum – WikiLeaks – Mishandling of Classified Information
Office of Management and Budget (November 28, 2010)

Memorandum – Initial Assessments of Safeguarding and Counterintelligence Postures for Classified National Security Information in Automated Systems
Office of Management and Budget (January 3, 2011)

Added the following resources to the Wikileaks pages:

WikiLeaks cable dump reveals flaws of State Department’s information-sharing tool
Washington Post

A Clear Danger to Free Speech
Geoffrey R. Stone
New York Times

We’ve added links to these resources:

Whistleblower protection bill dies again, on the 1-yard line
Government Executive
By Robert Brodsky December 23, 2010

Statement by the Norwegian Library Association, Norwegian Association of Special Libraries, and Librarians’ Union of Norway