Advocacy Information for the New York-New Jersey Chapter
of the Medical Library Association
The Advocacy Committee monitors the progress and development of legislative activities affecting health care information and education, health sciences libraries and librarians, and the public we serve. The web site of the Medical Library Association provides extensive information on national issues. To best serve our Chapter constituency, we focus particularly on issues in New York and New Jersey, recognizing that legislative and budgetary issues that affect libraries in general also impact those in the health sciences.
We invite members to access MLA Governmental Relations and ALA Advocacy to keep up with advocacy issues of concern to librarians.
Legislative News
MLA Action Alerts
MLA Position Statements
MLA Comments in support of the National Plan for Action, Feb., 2010
Latest Public Policy Updates
House Hearing on NIH Public Access Policy, Sept. 2008
Civil Liberties
Addresses legislation that seeks to strengthen national security post 9/11, and its impact on libraries and library services.
Funding
Addresses annual appropriations legislation that funds education and recruitment initiatives, and also library programs and services.
FY10 House L-HHS Appropriations Update
Summary: 2009 Labor, Health & Education Appropriations
Economic Stimulus Package Update from the Health And Medicine Counsel of Washington
FY 2008 HOUSE LABOR- Health and Human Services- Education Appropriations Bill
FY 2007 Appropriations & Continuing Resolution Analysis
Advocacy Educational Tools
- Building a Relationship with Your Elected Official Webinar, 4/14/10
(Slides, Notes) - Advocacy Column – Winter 2010
- Advocacy Column – Summer 2009
Health Care Reform
Websites Featuring Health Reform Resources
· Kaiser Family Foundation: Provides comprehensive resources on a range of issues including state health reform initiatives, health policy headlines, and side-by-side comparison of the major health care form proposals.
MLA Statements
· MLA/AAHSL Statement: Health Sciences Librarians and Health Care Reform: “Providing quality information for improved health (July 2009)
· To the Obama Transition Team: Joint MLA/AAHSL statement: Three Principles for Meaningful Healthcare Reform (January 2009)
Information Access
Access to Government Information
Addresses issues and legislation related to public access to health information, including the NIH policy on enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from NIH-funded research and NLM’s PubChem database.