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Strategic Planning part II: SWOT analysis for the FDLP
Introduction In our previous post about GPO’s National Plan for Access to U.S. Government Information: A Framework for a User-centric Service Approach To Permanent Public Access, we suggested two small changes to the Plan that we believe would improve it by giving it a clearer focus (on preservation for communities of users) and and a […]
Internet preservation: what do we do now?
I’m at the International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly and Conference this week in beautiful Reykjavik, Iceland. Follow the flow of the conversation from the #IIPCga16 and #IIPCwac16 twitter hashtags. Here are a few pieces of the week that have especially hit me as important: The technologies and tools to collect, preserve and use Web […]
New Depository Library Council members named
Congratulations to Thomas Fischlschweiger, Cass Hartnett, Kirstin Krumsee, Lori Thornton, and Stanford’s own Beth Williams for being named to Depository Library Council to the Public Printer (which is now called the “GPO Director”). This group works hard to advise GPO on FDLP library issues. GPO DIRECTOR NAMES NEW MEMBERS TO THE DEPOSITORY LIBRARY COUNCIL WASHINGTON […]
Digital Preservation of Federal Information Summit
I’m excited and honored to be attending the Digital Preservation of Federal Information Summit this weekend in San Antonio. Dr Martin Halbert of the University of North Texas has invited government information librarians, archivists, technologists, and administrators — including my FGI colleague Jim jacobs! — to mobilize efforts at preserving digital federal government information. If […]
Congressional Data Coalition: open Congressional information and make Congress work better
Yesterday, FGI, along with a group of citizens, public interest groups, libraries and trade associations comprising the Congressional Data Coalition, submitted testimony to the House Appropriations Committee regarding legislative branch funding priorities for fiscal year 2017. The group made recommendations on where the House should focus next or what kinds of data should be released: […]
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