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ALA 2024 in San Diego Goes International: Programs Address Issues on Global Law and Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2024

Bobbi A. Weaver*
Affiliation:
Foreign & International Law Reference Librarian, California Western School of Law, [email protected].

Extract

The annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA) was held June 27–July 2, 2024, in San Diego, California. This year's opening session, which began the afternoon of June 28, 2024, featured an introduction by current ALA President, Emily Drabinski. She reviewed the progress of the association and commented on the number of international participants attending this year's conference. She noted that there were 340 participants from 51 different countries represented at the meeting.

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by International Association of Law Libraries

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1 See UN Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, The 17 Goals, accessed July 14, 2024, https://sdgs.un.org/goals.

2 UN General Assembly, Resolution 70/1, Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1 (Oct. 21, 2015).

3 Wendy Pothier, FIRE—First-Year Innovation and Research Experience 2023–24, University of New Hampshire Library, https://libraryguides.unh.edu/FIRE23-24 (last updated Apr. 16, 2024).

5 Alondra Nelson, Dr. Alondra Nelson to Heads of [Federal] Executive Departments and Agencies, memorandum (Aug. 26, 2022), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-access-Memo.pdf.

6 Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled, June 27, 2013 (entered into force for the US on May 9, 2019), https://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text/301019).