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Maryellen Trautman
The great government documents librarian Maryellen Trautman died on November 17, 2024. She was a pioneer and a protector of government documents as a regional depository librarian in Oklahoma and as a government documents librarian at the National Archives and Records Administration. She was one of the founders of the American Library Association Government Documents […]
Government recommendations to preserve government information not preserved by government
James and I are writing a book on preserving government information. In the course of researching the book, we find ourselves hunting down government publications that we need but that are not available from the government or from any FDLP library. Each of these documents has its own explanation for why it is missing and […]
House Staff Report on Political Interference with Coronavirus Response
The staff of the House Select Subcommittee On The Coronavirus Crisis has issued a 15 page report that documents 47 separate instances of political interference with the federal response to the coronavirus crisis. press release: Select Subcommittee Analysis Shows Pattern of Political Interference by the Trump Administration in Coronavirus Response Press Release (Oct 2, 2020). […]
Threshold Concepts for Government Information
There’s an interesting thread on the govdoc-l listserv regarding “threshold concepts” for government information — core concepts which, once understood, “transform perception of a given subject, phenomenon, or experience” or as someone on govdoc-l stated “concepts that are so foundational that people immersed in a discipline take them for granted.” We think some of the […]
Some facts about the born-digital “National Collection”
April 9, 2022 / Leave a comment
We want to contribute a couple of facts and context about the born-digital “National Collection” to help inform the discussions on the priorities of GPO and FDLP libraries at the upcoming spring 2022 Depository Library Conference as well as discussions surrounding the work of the all-digital FDLP task force. We believe these facts lead to […]
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