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DLC responds to open letter regarding the new Regional discard policy
On December 18, 2015, a group of 16 librarians wrote an open letter to GPO regarding the implementation of the new Regional discard policy (here’s more on our coverage of the regional discard policy). The letter asked a series of questions that the signatories felt would need to be thought about — if not answered […]
NYPL makes 187,000 digital items available in public domain collection
Wow I’ve been lost in this new public domain search from NY Public Library’s NYPL Labs. And they’ve made the data and code available on github! Check it out for yourself. Go Public Domain! On January 6th, 2016, The New York Public Library made over 187K digital items in the public domain available for high […]
State of the union 2016: tag cloud and non-.gov sites
President Obama’s last State of the Union (SOTU) address was tonight. Below you can see the tag cloud of his speech (thanks TagCrowd!) as well as Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC)’s GOP response. There’s plenty of analysis out there, so I won’t deign to add my own. But I will point out a couple of things […]
9th Circuit Court cares about citation rot!
I learned something new and pretty cool today. Librarians at the 9th Circuit Court have been archiving citations in Court opinions since 2008 — and the Internet Archive has been archiving the archived citations in the wayback machine! However, I’m not sure if the change in their process is a good thing or a bad […]
Download FRED Data Directly in Excel
I’ve always had a thing for FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data). And now they’re providing a free excel add-in for 290,000 data series from various sources (e.g., BEA, BLS, Census, and OECD). Thanks St Louis Fed! The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Data (FRED) Add-In is free software that will significantly reduce the […]
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