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Contact the FCC and Congress. Tell them we need net neutrality for an equitable Internet

“The chairman’s defenders — the cable and phone companies themselves — would likely respond that the “slow” lanes would be pretty fast while the “fast” lanes could offer governments even more benefits. But don’t believe it. Our nation is already in the global slow lane.” — Slate.com See the spinning wheel of death? September 10 […]

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Library of Congress racing to preserve vast CD collection

Here’s a short piece from a recent CBS news broadcast about preserving the CD collection at the Library of Congress. It was so sad to see the example CD they showed was from the Census Bureau US Exports of Merchandise.

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Welcome Sitting Bull College Library to the FDLP!

Last week, GPO announced that Sitting Bull College Library had joined the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and would be the first digital-only member of the FDLP. Welcome Sitting Bull College to the FDLP! But one sentence piqued my interest in GPO’s press release: “…opting to meet their community’s needs by developing an online Government […]

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Library associations weigh in on GPO’s proposed policy to allow Regionals to discard

[Update 12 September, 2014: I’ve added below links to the letters of the FDLP Regional Librarians group and of the Depository Library Council (DLC). I struck out my comment about GODORT being the only group comprised of govt information librarians. JRJ] I thought it’d be helpful to post the various letters in response to Government […]

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More on NSA’s Google-like search engine to share data w agencies

Thanks Rachel for posting about the Intercept‘s new report about NSA’s search engine of harvested data. I thought readers would be interested in this DemocracyNow interview with Ryan Gallagher, the Intercept reporter who wrote this story. A particularly chilling part of the interview was when Gallagher described how the Intercept is now off-limits for Federal […]

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