Associations take stands on access to information.

Discusses the efforts of several associations in the information and library service industry to uphold access to information regulations and rules. Role of the Information Industry Association testifying before the House Subcommittee on Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture; Basis for the framework by the IIA; Endorsement by the Medical Library Association and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors of an federal legislative agenda of funding, education, and research; Threats to the development of a true North American database of bibliographic records electronically linked and offering unrestricted access.