FW: ALA, ARL, more, letter of support for OpenDocument

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Five U.S. library associations have voiced their support for 
Massachusetts' decision to adopt the OpenDocument document format 
standard.

In a memo sent to Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin, who has 
jurisdiction over public records, the library associations said that the 
choice of OpenDocument, or ODF, is way to ensure that electronic documents 
will be accessible hundreds of years from now.

"Requiring all Commonwealth employees to create documents in ODF will make 
it significantly easier for libraries to ensure that patrons 100 years 
from now will be able to read these historically important documents," the 
letter said. It was dated December 12 and signed by the American 
Association for Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the 
Association of Research Libraries, the Medical Library Association, and 
the Special Libraries Association.

Source: http://tinyurl.com/atbk7