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The article reports on the American Library Association's (ALA) Annual Conference, which was held June 22-28, 2006, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The article focuses on a debate at the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) President's Program, which was attended by more than 650 participants of the ALA conference. The debate focused on programs that seek to improve academic library user's information literacy. The article mentions the outcome of the debate and other ACRL sessions on copyright and licensing as well as students' use of new technologies.

The article focuses on the two actions taken by Ajit Pai as chairman of U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and concerns of American Library Association to the actions implication. These include the network neutrality scheme which mandates Internet service providers (ISPs) to enable access to all content and applications and the FCC decision to close investigations into whether wireless ISPs zero rated data plans violate protections under the 2015 Open Internet Order.

The article focuses on the involvement of the American Library Association (ALA) in the network (net) neutrality debate at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Congress in 2010. It defines net neutrality as the concept of online nondiscrimination. Comments were filed by ALA to the FCC on the relationship between open Internet protection and services provided over the broadband Internet access service. ALA intends to advocate for the adoption of net neutrality principles.

The article discusses the 110th U.S. Congress, which convened for the first time on January 4, 2007. The culturally diverse Democratic-controlled Congress faces potentially divisive issues, such as the Iraq War, immigration reform, and education decisions. Libraries and information services may be affected by decisions on internet policy, telecommunications, and broadband deployment. The American Library Association (ALA) plans to support policies that will ensure Internet freedom and "network neutrality."