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Appeals court ruling on the NSA collection of phone records
UPDATED (5/8/2015) Concurring opinion added. News of the recent ruling by a federal appeals court that the National Security Agency’s collection of millions of Americans’ phone records violates the Patriot Act is widely available. Below are the links to a couple of good accounts of the ruling and the ruling itself. N.S.A. Phone Data Collection […]
Not Your Grandmother’s Librarian
The Cover story of The Nation this weeks is about librarians battling for privacy. Librarians Versus the NSA, by Zoë Carpenter, The Nation (May 6, 2015, the May 25, 2015 edition). Amy Sonnie, a librarian and activist in Oakland, told me that there’s a debate within the profession about whether librarianship is, or should be, […]
Survey says most Americans not yet keen on e-government services
A new survey says that less than half of American adults who use the Internet at least once a week want the federal government to dive deeper into digital service delivery. Survey: Most Americans Just Not That Into Uncle Sam’s Digital Services, By Hallie Golden, NextGov (April 28, 2015). The survey, by Forrester Research, also […]
What Are We To Keep? (FAQ)
This document is meant to accompany the article, “What are we to Keep?” by James R. Jacobs, Documents to the People (Spring 2015) p 13-19. FAQ What is a Preservation Copy? Research that was prompted by JSTOR’s desire to determine how to guarantee that all of the printed material within its journals would remain available […]
LLIS.gov going away and moving to HSDL.org and FEMA.gov
Are you pointing to documents at LLIS.gov? Those links appear to be broken. LLIS.gov (which points to llis.dhs.gov) has had a generic “Site under maintenance” page since at least December 2014. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS) program’s LLIS.gov website will cease independent operations and consolidate its content […]
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