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Arrow 1986
 

Page 174, March 1986

SLRP turns attention to 10 key issues. The Strategic Long Range Plan was discusses on January 17 and focuses on ten strategic areas including access of information.

1985 Annual Report
Page "C", March 1986

The Commission of Freedom and Equality of Access to Information released a draft of funding for comments by readers. The Commission examined barriers to access from the areas of broadcast regulation to the cost of electronic technology.

Page 576, September 1986
"20 Nat'l Groups to Fight Curbs on Federal Info."

Because of interest from ALA, 20 national organizations have agreed to fight the Reagan Administration's restrictions to access of federal data.

Pages 520, 546, July/August 1986

ALA Council actions in New York- Council voted to accept the report,
"Equity at Issue=Library Services to the Nation's Four Major Minority Groups" from the President's Committee on Library Services to Minorities, and to endorse the 22 recommendations in the report.

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