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UK colonial files are still secret
Robert Gildea, Professor of Modern History at University of Oxford, has this comment about the movement to get the UK’s Foreign Office to release a massive archive of public documents in The Conversation, an independent source of news and views from the academic and research community. Public interest demands the release of hidden colonial files, […]
QOTD: Richard Pearce-Moses
Quote of the day: “The ‘what’ and the ‘why’ of our jobs remain the same: We must still select, acquire, organize, provide access and preserve our collections. But ‘how’ we do that changes.” — Richard Pearce-Moses, currently director of College of Information & Mathematical Sciences at Clayton State University, formerly deputy director for technology and […]
QOTD: Google on lots of copies keeping stuff safe
QOTD: Google agrees that “Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe.” Though Google at one time tried to offer customers the ability to store their data in one location in response to requests, it does not offer that feature now because it determined it was illogical, the person said. Google decided data is more secure if […]
NSA, you know, for kids!
Doc of the day! The NSA’s website for kids! I hope someone carefully preserves this. I imagine it will be an important cultural artifact some day when we look back at the National Security Agency and the recent revelations about its spying on everyone. And don’t forget: “Crypto Cat®, Decipher Dog®, Rosetta Stone®, Slate®, Joules™, […]
Information is not a Service, Service is not Information
January 27, 2014 / Leave a comment
John Shuler and his colleagues comment on the effects of the recent government shutdown on information access in this GIQ editorial: E-government without government, John A. Shuler, Paul T. Jaeger, and John Carlo Bertot. Government Information Quarterly (In Press, Corrected Proof) DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2013.11.004 [subscriber access required]. The authors rightly point out that the shutdown caused an […]
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