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Congress Creates Super Federal Library Agency

In a rare show of bipartisanship, the Senate passed the controversial Federal Library Agency Act (FLAA) on a nearly unanimous voice vote, sending it to President Obama for his expected signature. The House had passed it in February with a two-thirds majority.

The FLAA creates a new mandate by combining federal library functions scattered throughout the government into a single unique agency. Using existing funding from departmental budgets, it forms a new domestic federal library attack dog, the Federal Library Agency (FLA) and its overseas arm, the Institute for International Study of Societies (IISS). Although initially south of revenue neutral, the act will purportedly save millions of dollars over the next decade and improve the services offered.

Consolidation of library entities

In brief, the FLAA transfers to the new agency most library and many related information program responsibilities in both executive and legislative branches at home and abroad. It establishes central authority over federal library programs and consolidates various international library activities. A cabal of politically savvy library administrators and congressional staffers did the impossible of collecting many of the diverse functions of federal libraries into a single agency. By an act of law, congress combined libraries with—libraries!
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