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Help redesign clerk.house.gov
The Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives is asking for the public’s help in redesigning clerk.house.gov. Please take this brief survey and let them know what’s absolutely critical for their new site. I hope you’ll put a good word in for long-term digital preservation, open non-DRM’d bulk data, and ongoing deposit […]
Report on Wasteful Spending by the Federal Government speciously targets NTIS
I was over at Sabrina Pacifici’s ever-informative bespacific.com blog (subscribe, you’ll be glad you did!) to read about e-govt and public access during the last government shutdown and happened to see another post about Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-OKLA) latest “Report on Wasteful Spending by the Federal Government.” While I haven’t read the “report” in its entirety, […]
Malamud to propose an Edicts of Government Amendment
[UPDATE 1/14/14: the hearing including Carl Malamud’s testimony is now available vis CSPAN. JRJ] Carl Malamud will be testifying at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Scope of Copyright Protection On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 10AM. Hi testimony will be on the subject of Edicts of Government, including copyright assertions over state laws and federally-mandated public […]
Minnesota librarians push to curb NSA snooping
“With mass collection of private data, whether library records or cellphone activity, the decision on privacy has been taken away from the individual. The potential harm comes from not knowing what has been collected or how it will be used.” Great quote from Kirsten Clark, our own Regional FDLP Librarian at the University of Minnesota. […]
COL’s FDLP Task Force Survey and FGI’s responses
January 7, 2014 / Leave a comment
[updated 4pm 1/7/14. I clarified a couple of statements. JRJ] Last summer, the ALA Committee on Legislation (COL), Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) Task Force released its FDLP report and recommendations. In response, FGI wrote a white paper “Wait! Don’t Digitize and Discard! A White Paper on ALA COL Discussion Issue #1a”. While agreeing with […]
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