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GPO and Library of Congress Digitize 10,000 Volumes of the United States Serial Set

Happy new year readers! Here’s a bit of good news in the midst of all of the craziness (as an aside, has our federal government gone insane?!). I just received a press release from the Government Publishing Office (GPO) that GPO and the Library of Congress have digitized 10,000 Volumes of the United States Serial […]

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Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) goes dark, Judiciary Democrats create IG repository

The federal government shutdown is now into its 3rd week with no end in sight. One of the overlooked parts of this shutdown is that the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) has gone dark as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has withheld funds from the Inspector General committee. […]

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Federal government shutdown (10/1/2025)

The federal government has shut down as of 12:01 on October 1, 2025. This means that much of the federal government will not be operating and thousands of federal employees will be furloughed – check out Federal Harms Tracker for more. The Government Publishing Office (GPO) sent out this piece to the federal depository library […]

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Department of Justice deletes study on politics of domestic terrorists

The Justice Department was caught deleting a study conducted by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and hosted on a DOJ website proving that right-wing violence poses a “far” greater threat than left-wing extremism. The report was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved in the […]

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FGI book talk now available as a podcast episode on Future Knowledge

If you happened to miss our book talk at the Internet Archive a couple of weeks ago, have no fear. The talk about Preserving Government Information was recorded and released as a podcast at Future Knowledge. Special thanks to Shari Laster for being our moderator/interlocutor and for the fine folks at the Internet Archive for […]

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