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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.”
Lunchtime Listen: Born Digital Government Information
Back in April I gave a brief (18 minutes!) talk at the Center for Research Libraries Forum, Leviathan: Libraries and Government Information in the Era of Big Data. Here are the slides and the audio recording of that presentation: Government Records and Information: Real Risks and Potential Losses. The presentation gave me an opportunity to […]
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