Thanks to P.S. Mueller!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Our mission
Free Government Information (FGI) is a place for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various players (libraries, government agencies, non-profit organizations, researchers, journalists, etc.) who have a stake in the preservation of and perpetual free access to government information. FGI promotes free government information through collaboration, education, advocacy and research.
Welcome to Free Government Information (FGI)
1 Comment
Leave a comment Cancel reply
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Latest Posts
- Pentagon Culls Social Science Research, deletes 91 funded projects
- JCP and JCL house members
- PEGI Project Urges Preservation of Public Federal Data
- Public letter re the firing of the Archivist of the United States
- Call to arms: What government information librarians can do to help save critical federal information from being lost
Latest Comments
- Aimee Quinn on The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is
- James R. Jacobs on Federal information scrubbing has begun. Please support the End of Term Archive and Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI)
- James R. Jacobs on Down a few rabbit holes in search for a historic pamphlet on Fascism
- Kathleen Cunningham on Down a few rabbit holes in search for a historic pamphlet on Fascism
- Gretchen Gehrke on EDGI’s new public comments initiative
- James R. Jacobs on Reference question and the saga of chasing down a Congressionally mandated report
- James R. Jacobs on Down a few rabbit holes in search for a historic pamphlet on Fascism
- Cass Hartnett on Down a few rabbit holes in search for a historic pamphlet on Fascism
- James R. Jacobs on Beautiful video on the history of fire lookouts – and fire! – highlights lots of US govt publications and records
- James R. Jacobs on Down a few rabbit holes in search for a historic pamphlet on Fascism
Blogroll
- ASU Gov Docs
- beSpacific
- Best. Titles. Ever. (Tumblr)
- Center for Effective Government
- Every CRS Report New Reports RSS Feed
- FDLP Desktop
- FDLP News & Events
- FullTextReports
- GISIG UW-SLIS: Gov Info, Sources, Data & Docs
- Government Book Talk
- Government Information Network (Canada)
- Government Information News from Fondren Library, Rice University
- GPO [twitter]
- INFOdocket
- Information Observatory
- Libraries+ Network
- Library Babel Fish by Barbara Fister
- NARA records express
- Open The Government
- Secrecy News
- SLA GovInfo [twitter]
- StatFountain
- Sunlight Foundation
- University of Washington Gov Pubs Finds
I found the article to be extremely clearly articulated and VERY interesting. I have felt for some time to be in agreement with the folks that have been asking for deposit of electronic docs with FDLP libraries, but have not ever seen the arguments in favor of this approach so well presented. I wish I could go to the meeting in Albuquerque and hear the discussions that the article is sure to provoke. I hope that those who do attend will see that the substance of these discussions is made available on govdoc-l.
I am from a small library but we are certainly willing to do our part in a brave new FDLP if GPO would but give us the chance. And if it should turn out that only larger libraries would be able to participate directly in such a system, I still think that we small fry can contribute positively to public access by cooperating with our larger cousins in outreach, links, finding aids, etc. We feel just as strongly about the issues of decentralization, privacy rights, authenticity concerns, etc. as do the large research libraries.
Good luck in pressing these arguments with GPO at the Council Meeting. I will be with you there in spirit!
KA