2006 Annual Report

2006 SCLA Legislative Committee

Annual Report

Committee Members in 2006
Camille McCutcheon, Coordinator of Library Instruction, USC Upstate (chair)
Jeanette Bergeron, Crumley Lutheran Archives
Tom Gilson, Head of Reference, College of Charleston Libraries
Steve Johnson, Acquisitions, Clemson University Libraries
William (Bill) Sudduth, Head, Government Publications & Microforms, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina-Columbia
Patti Butcher, South Carolina State Librarian, South Carolina State Library (ex officio)

Committee Activities:
During 2006, the committee kept the SCLA Executive Board informed by forwarding e-mails from the ALA Washington Office Newsline to the SCLAEXECS listserv. The chair forwarded over one hundred emails regarding federal legislation and libraries to the SCLAEXECS listserv. The chair also served as Federal Relations Coordinator as well as South Carolina state coordinator for National Library Legislative Day.

This year, SCLA was one of the many sponsors for National Library Legislative Day (NLLD). Fourteen librarians from South Carolina traveled to Washington, DC to participate in the ALA National Legislative Day on May 1 and 2. These librarians visited the eight congressional offices and expressed their legislative concerns. The chair wrote an article chronicling this event for the July 2006 issue of the SCLA newsletter.

Camille McCutcheon is the only committee member whose term ends at the close of 2006.

Respectfully submitted,

Camille McCutcheon
Chair, Legislative Committee
December 13, 2006