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NARA does digital-deposit… but not to libraries.
Here at FGI, we are long time advocates of digital deposit: the deposit of born-digital government information into Federal Depository Libraries. We know this can be done, but, for a variety of increasingly unjustifiable reasons, neither FDLP libraries nor GPO have been eager to do it. We were intrigued, therefore, to see this story: US […]
Document of the Day: Animal Congregations
USGS brings us Animal Congregations, or What Do You Call a Group of…..? by Dave Fellows. So you’re stuck on 15 down (the collective name for a group of rhinos) in today’s crossword puzzle or you are writing the definitive novel about 17th century England and you need to know what they called a group […]
Frontline documentary: United States of Secrets
In case you missed it, PBS now has both parts of the Frontline Documentary “United States of Secrets” online. United States of Secrets. PBS. 2014. Part One – “The Program: How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?” Part Two – “Privacy Lost: How Silicon Valley feeds the NSA’s global dragnet.”
PACER Removes Court Case Documents
August 27, 2014 / Leave a comment
On August 10, 2014, The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which runs PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) abruptly announced that a bunch of cases would “no longer be available.” See below for a copy of the announcement and the cases covered. PACER makes court papers available (for a fee) as well as […]
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