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AALL works in a variety of ways to promote accessible government information as an essential principle of a democratic society and a valuable public good created at taxpayer expense, including advocating for that information should be available in a variety of formats and that information on government websites should be available free of charge.

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Issue Briefs and Reports

Advocacy One-Pager, "Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act" (4/08/13)
Advocacy One-Pager, "Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act" (04/10/13)
Advocacy One-Pager "Access to Congressional Research Service Reports" (03/31/13)
Advocacy One-Pager, "Access to Presidential Records" (05/24/12)
Advocacy One-Pager, "Public Access to Taxpayer-Funded Research" (02/16/12)
Advocacy One-Pager, "Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)" (11/20/11)
Advocacy One-Pager, "The Congressional Record" (11/06/11)

Formal Statements

Letter from Library Associations to Senate Committee on Rules & Administration, "In support of President Obama’s nomination of Davita Vance-Cooks for Public Printer of the United States" (06/11/13)
Letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Committee on House Administration, "In support of the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act" (03/12/13)
Letter to Reps. Leonard Lance and Mike Quigley, "To express our support for the Congressional Research Service Electronic Accessibility Act" (03/1/13)
Letter to Senator Ron Wyden "To thank you for introducing “The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act” (FASTR)" (02/25/13)
Letter to Rep. Paul Braun, "In support of the testimony of Stuart Shieber, Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard University, regarding the Federal Research Public Access Act, H.R. 4004" (03/29/12)
Letter to Sen. John Cornyn,"In support of The Federal Research Public Access Act. S. 2096" (02/14/12)
Letter to Rep. Michael Doyle, "In support of The Federal Research Public Access Act, H.R. 4004" (02/14/12)
Letter to House Oversight Committee, "To express opposition to the Research Works Act, H.R. 3699" (01/24/12)
Letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Leadership, "In support of the Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011, H.R. 3071"(11/02/11)
Letter to House Oversight and Administration Committees Leadership, "In support of the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act" (05/10/11)
Letter to Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Leadership, "To ask them to reintroduce legislation to authorize and promote the public distribution of reports that are published by the Congressional Research Service (CRS)" (04/05/11)
Letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Leadership, "To ask them to reintroduce legislation to authorize and promote the public distribution of reports that are published by the Congressional Research Service (CRS)" (04/05/11)
Letter to Sen. Ben Nelson, "To ask him to remove the statutory obstacle to authorized distribution of non-confidential CRS reports" (04/05/11)
Letter to Sen. John Hoeven, "To ask him to remove the statutory obstacle to authorized distribution of non-confidential CRS reports" (04/05/11)
Letter to Rep. Mike Honda, "To ask him to remove the statutory obstacle to authorized distribution of non-confidential CRS reports" (04/05/11)
Letter to Rep. Ander Crenshaw, "To ask him to remove the statutory obstacle to authorized distribution of non-confidential CRS reports" (04/05/11)
Letter to Librarian of Congress Dr. James Billington, "To urge Dr. James Billington to appoint a Director of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) who will work with Congress to provide online free public access to CRS reports" (02/25/11)

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