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The following request was received 8/22/2000 from NCLIS:
Thanks so much for your message of August 16th agreeing to help NCLIS with
our study of reforms to the Federal Government's public information
dissemination laws, policies, programs, and practices.
Upon discussing the matter with Kurt Molholm, and taking into account your
work in making unpublished material available on the web, I wondered if you
might be willing to author a paper for NCLIS that addresses what steps the
Congress and the President could take to strengthen existing guidelines,
standards, and other similar measures, and/or perhaps develop new ones where
none currently exist, which you believe are necessary, or at least could be
very helpful, in diffusing government knowledge to help, especially,
universities, research, development, and scholarship in general? I was
thinking of a paper perhaps no less than five, nor more than fifteen pages,
written in a style for a non-technical audience, such as the government
policy-makers who will be expected to read our final reports and act upon
them. Let us say, by October lst?
I hope you will find the time to assist us in our deliberations.
Woody Horton
Consultant
U.S. NCLIS
1110 Vermont Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
whorton@nclis.gov