FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 7, 2008
IMLS Press Contacts
202-653-4632
Jeannine Mjoseth, jmjoseth@imls.gov
Mamie Bittner, mbittner@imls.gov
Public
Invited to the National Museum and Library Services Board
Meeting
April 16 in Washington, DC
WASHINGTON, DC--The public
is invited to attend the April 16 meeting of the National
Museum and Library Services Board (NMLSB) from 12:30 pm
to 3:30 p.m. in the Georgian Room at the Phoenix Park
Hotel (2nd floor, 520 N Capitol Street, NW, Washington,
D.C.).
The legislative process as it relates to
museums and libraries is the subject of the 14th meeting
of the NMLSB, the policy advisory board for the Institute
of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
At 12:30, the board and other interested
parties will hear from a panel of congressional staff
members about the legislative process and issues related
to museums and libraries. Panelists will include:
• Adrienne Hallett, Professional Staff Member on
the Senate Appropriations Committee (Majority);
• Lori Groves Rowley, Chief of Staff to Representative
Ralph Regula (R-OH-16);
• Ilyse Schuman, Minority Staff Director and Chief
Counsel on the Senate HELP Committee; and
• Elyse Wasch, Legislative Director to Senator
Jack Reed (D-RI).
At 1:30, Judy Schneider, a Specialist on
the Congress at the Congressional Research Service (CRS)
and an adjunct scholar at the Brookings Institution Center
for Public Policy Education, will give a presentation
on the workings of Congress. Prior to joining CRS in 1979,
Schneider served as research coordinator for the Senate
Ethics Committee’s Korean investigation, and as
a professional staff member of the Senate Select Committee
to Study the Senate Committee System and the House Commission
on Administrative Review. She is the author of over 100
papers on congressional organization and operations, and
the co-author of the Congressional Deskbook, published
by TheCapitol.Net in June 2000, now in its fourth edition.
Schneider serves on the faculty of the Conference for
New Members of Congress. She was selected as a Stennis
Fellow during the 108th Congress, and received the Women
in Government Relations Distinguished Member Award in
2004. She has a BA and MA from American University and
has done additional graduate work at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem, Israel.
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