Federal: Legislation to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is gaining ground in Congress this fall. ECPA is the principal law that controls when the government needs to have a search warrant to obtain the full content of electronic communications. It was enacted in 1986 and has not been updated since. There is now…
Day: September 30, 2015
Twiss-Brooks Chosen as Mentor for Leadership Fellows Program
Andrea Twiss-Brooks (MS, MSLS), who is Co-Director of the Science Libraries Division and the Head of Collection Services at the University of Chicago’s John Crerar Library, has been chosen as a mentor for the 2016 class of NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows. Twiss-Brooks is one of 10 participants in this year’s program (five fellows and five mentors),…