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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 […]
FDLP biennial survey due tomorrow. Here’s my comments. What are yours?
If you’re like me, you’ve waited until the last minute to submit your 2015 FDLP Biennial Survey. Since this is the season of sharing, I thought I’d post the comments I submitted with my library’s survey. I’d love to hear what others commented. What issues and ideas were most on your minds? If you’re able […]
FGI submits OMB A-130 comments. Help us raise OMB awareness of library issues
As FGI readers will know, OMB has asked the public for comments and suggestions to revise its Circular A-130 “Managing Information as a Strategic Resource.” Interestingly, they have chosen to manage the commenting process on http://github.com, the collaborative software versioning and management site. We at FGI have submitted a comment (or “issue” in GitHub parlance) […]
Public comment open until Nov 20 on OMB Circular A-130
[UPDATE 11/20/15: OMB has extended the commenting period for 15 days until December 5, 2015. JRJ] Office of Management and Budget’s Circular A-130 Managing Information as a Strategic Resource — along with the 1980 Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 94 Stat. 2812, which “establishes a broad mandate for agencies to perform their information resources management activities […]
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