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SUMMARY OF ELECTRONIC PUBLIC INFORMATION NEWSLETTER
VOL. 6, NO. 5; March 24, 1995
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INDEX:
1. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS READIES FOR POSSIBLE MOVE OF SUDOCS
2. JUDICIAL CONFERENCE REDUCES ELECTRONIC INFORMATION FEE
3. TOFFLERS SEES NEW "NEURAL SYSTEM" FOR CIVILIZATION
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1. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS READIES FOR POSSIBLE MOVE OF SUDOCS: A high
ranking delegation from the Library of Congress (LC), headed by
Deputy Librarian of Congress Dr. Hiram Davis, met on March 17 with
officials from the Government Printing Office (GPO) to discuss the
feasibility of transferring the Superintendent of Documents
(SuDocs) division to LC. The purpose of the meeting was confirmed
by GPO officials, and by a copy of the agenda that has been
obtained by EPIN. Nevertheless, a spokesman for LC offered a
different explanation, stating the meeting was held to discuss ways
to improve "cataloging and indexing of federal documents."
Additional meetings have been scheduled at department leAvels.
2. JUDICIAL CONFERENCE REDUCES ELECTRONIC INFORMATION FEE: The
Judicial Conference of the United States on March 14
asked all federal courts to reduce to $.75 per minute the fee charged to
access court information disseminated electronically. The fee was
reduced from $1 dollar per minute to keep it in line with the cost
of dissemination, according to David Sellers of the Administrative
Office of the U.S. Courts. The Courts were required to charge fees
for information to recover costs by Congress when it approved the
1990 Appropriation Act (PL 101-515, Sec. 404). The fee reduction
was attacked by Jamie Love, Director of the Taxpayer Assets
Project, who called the "requirement for user fees...outrageous"
and said $.75 per minute fee "will create a barrier for public
access to court information." He stated that the only ones to
benefit from the fee structure are the big private information
vendors. In a letter to Sen. Phil Gramm, Chair of the
Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and
Judiciary, Love requested congressional intervention. "Congress
should repeal the current statutory requirement that courts charge
fees for access to court information, and excessive fees should be
prohibited," Love stated.
3. TOFFLERS SEES NEW "NEURAL SYSTEM" FOR CIVILIZATION: Alvin and
Heidi Toffler, futurists and authors of "Future Shock" "The Third
Wave" and "Power Shift" spoke out Friday (3/24) in Washington about
the "astonishing" and "fantastic" future of the Information Age.
The Tofflers appeared as the key note speakers at the Library of
Congress program of the Federal Library and Information Center
Committee. The central message delivered was about the fundamental
changes that are now occurring and the need to "prepare ourselves
for the change." However, the remarks offered by the Tofflers did
not include any endorsement of the so called "Politics of the Third
Wave" presented by Speaker Newt Gingrich's think tank "The Progress
& Freedom Foundation" in their white paper, "Magna Carta for the
Knowledge Age."
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