1992

January 1992 - ALA's Library and Information Technology Association sponsored its 2nd conference on the rapid changes in our electronic world. The conference will focus on issues that relate to privacy and the Constitution.

January 1992 - ALA president Patricia Glass Schuman appointed a committee on Cultural Diversity to recruit diverse students to the library profession. She feels this is critical to deliver library services to all parts of our society. She feels that poor people sometimes just lack the information needed to be successful and that the library is an essential part to the solution. Her ideal society is one that every member has literacy skills and know where to find information.

March 1992 - "Call for America's Libraries" is a campaign launched by ALA to gain public support and interest in all types of libraries. One of the goals is to get people talking about the value of libraries and the importance of our societies Right-to-Know. People are asked to call in or write letters to express their concerns and their support to libraries. ALA hopes that this campaign will gain enough support to force elected officials to listen to libraries.

April 1992 - ALA and Bell Atlantic Corporation announce that they will continue their partnership in funding a family literacy program until 1995. This program helps improve the basic reading skills of parents and children.

November 1992 - ALA and McDonald's announced a partnership to encourage reading. The program is titled "Together is Better...Let's Read!" McDonald's will provide materials to 16,000 public libraries and will encourage restaurants to organize activities to support this program. The program encourages children to read to each other and to their families.

1993

January 1993- ALA leads the way to create a diverse coalition of organizations that promote library concepts. ALA helped to fund the National Forum on Information Literacy NFIL. NFIL is an umbrella group of national organizations that will design plans to help people become information consumers.

April 1993- Electronic Library Act Introduced in Senate. This act would allow the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and lastly Library of Congress to make available multi year grants for states to develop electronic libraries.

April 1993- President Clinton and Vice-President Gore announced an initiative for technology stimulus. The details were laid out in a document entitled Technology for Americas Economic Growth, A New Direction to Build Economic. Advantages to this initiative will be access to government information by promoting timely and equitable access to government information via diverse sources.

October 1993- ALA announces that LITA, Library and Information Technology Association will now offer it's quarterly newsletter online.

Source: American Libraries Issues 1992-1993\par