In spite of the passage of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976, a law that mandated attention to dissemination, science policy directors have ignored academic libraries for 30 years. Library spending has not kept up with the growth of academic R&D since 1970. In spite of libraries being recognized as research overhead by Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21 (Principles for Determining Costs Applicable to Grants, Contracts, and Other Agreements with Educational Institutions), science agencies and universities ignore libraries as if they had no role in the preparation of proposals, authorship, and peer review.
Moreover, the prospect of a "closed-door invitation-only" meeting to get things done seems clearly anti-science. I would think that any member of the science community would prefer that policies be open and informed by reliable knowledge rather than oratory.
