This morning Don Wood sent a message to Publib saying that DOPA has been reintroduced in the House by Mark Kirk of Illinois. As you’ve probably read Ted “the internet is a series of tubes” Stevens has also introduced a bill called the “Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act,” which is a sort of son of DOPA.
Anyway, being the good citizen that I am, I decided to go see what the ALA website had on the subject. Answer: not much. Or, more accurately, not much that’s easy to find. Of course, not being able to find something on the ALA website hardly qualifies as news. Next I decided to try the Legislative Action Center, which I wrote about back in May, but lo–it has disappeared! I think that it has been replaced by this site, which seems to do most of the same stuff–but again, I’m not sure.
To be fair, I don’t think ALA is actually deleting online information–but (and again, this is hardly news) it does seem to be making it difficult to find.
Useful to keep track of these bills might be Open Congress, which isn’t run by librarians, but still.