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LIBR 281-03
Seminar in Contemporary Issues
Topic: National Information Policies
Spring 2007 Greensheet

C. Jim Schmidt
E-mail
Phone: (408)924-2465
Office Location: Clark Hall 420A
Office Hourse: T, W, Th 11-12 or by appointment

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Greensheet Links Textbooks and Readings Course Requirements Calendar

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Course Description

A study of selected federal information polices which provide access to or limit or prevent access to federal government information.  Federal  regulation of Internet content will also be studied.

Course Prerequisites: LIBR 200, LIBR 204

Course Objectives

Students who complete this course successfully will understand the selected policies studied and will understand the implications of each policy studied for society, libraries and librarians.

LIBR 281-03 supports the following SLIS Core Competencies:

• articulate the ethics, values and foundational principles of library and information professionals and their role in the promotion of intellectual freedom;
• recognize the social, cultural and economic dimensions of information use.

Textbooks and Readings

See calendar below.

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Course Requirements

Course Meetings
Class meetings at 1- 4 pm on:

• February 1
• February 15
• March 1
• March 15
• April 5
• April 19
• May 3

Subject to change with fair notice.

Basic Requirements and Grading
Do the readings/explore each issue

Attendance and participation	50%
Term project (due 5pm May 3)	50%

Grading Scale
The standard SJSU SLIS Grading Scale is utilized for all SLIS courses:

97-100	A
94-96	A-
91-93	B+
88-90	B
85-87	B-
82-84	C+
79-81	C
76-78	C-
73-75	D+
70-72	D
67-69	D-
Below 67	F

Academic Integrity
Your own commitment to learning, as evidenced by your enrollment at San José State University, and the University's Academic Integrity Policy requires you to be honest in all your academic course work. Faculty members are required to report all infractions to the Office of Student Conduct and Ethical Development. The policy on academic integrity can be found at http://sa.sjsu.edu/student_conduct.

Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities
If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, please e-mail me as soon as possible. Presidential Directive 97-03 requires that students with disabilities register with the Disability Resource Center (DRC) to establish record of their disability.

No matter where students reside, they should contact the SJSU DRC to register. The DRC Web site: http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/

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Calendar

February 15
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COPYRIGHT:  COPYRIGHT ACT, COPYRIGHT TERM EXTENSION ACT, DIGITAL MILLENIUM COPYRIGHT ACT, DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (DRM)

• Barlow, John Perry. “Economy of everything.” Wired (March, 1994) pp. 85-90, 126-129
• COPYRIGHT EXTENSION - Eldred v Ashcroft (US Supreme Court Case challenging copyright extension act) see also Lawrence Lessig. Free Culture
  (New York: Penguin Press, 2004)
• www.ll.georgetown.edu/aallwash/pr05212002.html
• www.lib.org/ISC/articles/14-Dodds.html
• www.ala.org/washoff/section108.pdf
• http://writ.corporate.findlaw.com/hilden/20010906.html

March 1
CONTENT REGULATION ON THE INTERNET

Federal Internet content regulation:

• I-1. Communications Decency Act (CDA) B Reno v ACLU at al 929 F.Supp. 824 (1996); 521 U.S.  844 (1997);
• I-2. Child Online Protection Act (COPA) B ACLU v Reno District Court: 31 F.Supp 473 (1999);  Circuit Court 217 F.3d 162 (2000);   Supreme Court:  Ashcroft v. ACLU et al (May 13,2002);
• ACLU v Ashcroft  3rd Circuit on remand from Supreme Court, March 6, 2003;
• Ashcroft v American Civil Liberties Union (June 29, 2004)
• Child Pornography Protection Act (CPPA)
• Free Speech Coalition v Reno 198 F.3d 1083 (1999);  Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition (Supreme Court, April 16, 2002)
• Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA)

State law cases:

• New York B American Library Association et al v Pataki 969 F.Supp. 160 (1997);
• Michigan Cyberspace Communications, Inc. et al v Engler 55 F.Supp. 2d 737 (1999) and 238 F.3d 420;
• New Mexico B ACLU v Johnson 194 F.3d 1149 (1999);
• Virginia B PSINet Inc et al v Chapman 108 F.Supp. 2d 611 (2000); 317 F.3d 413 (2003); Chapman v PSINet 362 F 3d 227 (2004)
• Arizona B ACLU v Goddard (formerly ACLU v Napolitano) (filed August 31, 2000);
• Vermont B ABFEE v Dean (2001) 202 F.Supp. 2d 300 (2002); 342 F.3d 96 (2nd Circuit, 2003)
• South Carolina-Southeast Booksellers v McMasters (formerly Southeast Booksellers Association v Condon) 282 F.Supp.2d 389 (South Carolina 2003), 371 F. Supp. 2d 773 (South Carolina 2005)
• Ohio- ABFFE v Petro (formerly Bookfriends Inc v Taft) 223 F.Supp. 2d 932 (S. D. Ohio 2002), appealed to 6th Circuit, remanded to the District court

March 15
CLASSIFICATION OF FEDERAL INFORMATION

• Pike, John “Security and Classification”  www.tscm.com/classification.html
• Quist, Arvin “Classification Under Executive Orders” 
• http://fas.org/sgp/library/quist/chap_3.html
• http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=325&projectId=5

April 5
AGENCY REGULATION, E.G. FCC INDECENCY POLICY FOR BROADCASTING

• Chapter 10 in Hernon, Peter et al United States Government Information: Policies and Sources (2002)
• Rulemaking: How Government Agencies Write Law and Make Policy, 3rd Edition by Cornelius M. Kerwin  (2003 CQ Press)
• Example:  FCC and Broadcasting and Indecency/Obscenity http://www.fcc.gov/eb/oip/Welcome.html

April 19
PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS

• http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo/index.html
• http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html
• http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa121897.htm

May 3
FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM

• http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fdlp.html
• McKenzie, Elizabeth et al “Leaving the Federal Depository Library Program”. Journal of Academic Librarianship 26:282-85 (July 2000)
• “Government Information in the Digital Age: the Once and Future Federal Depository Library Program”  Journal of Academic Librarianship 31:198-208 (May 2005)
• Tulis, Susan. “Visioning or Restructuring Efforts for the Federal Depository Library Program” DttP 34:33-35 (Spring, 2006)
• Powell, M. S. The U.S. federal depository library program and U.S. government information in an electronic environment: issues for the transition and the millennium [presented at the 1999 IFLA Conference]. INSPEL v. 34 no. 2 (2000) p. 103-14
• http://www.arl.org/pp/access/fdlp/index.shtml
  

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