An Independent fundraising arm will help ALA provide "a margin of excellence for libraries and librarianship." When ALA Executive Director Elizabeth Martinez unveiled ALA Goal 2000 (AL. Jan.. p. 17-21), most Association members understandably focusedon the immediate action plans to make librarians prime players in the Information Age. ALA's much-respected Washington Office would be getting some badly needed additional help in its efforts to keep libraries and library patrons in the forefront of national information policy. A new Office for Information Technology Policy 'Aouid be created to advise the Washington Office and ALA members on the crucial national information issues such as copyright and intellectual property, the scope and purpose of the information infrastructure, technical standards and protocols, intellectual freedom in new information media, and citizen access to government information as it migrates to electronic media.
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