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Canadian libricide: Harper government dumps centuries of irreplaceable environmental archives
This is absolutely tragic. In 2012, when Canada’s Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would be digitized first. However, reporting coming out of Canada now is finding that, along with the closure of some of the world’s finest […]
Restless America: 2012 US migration flows based on ACS data
Chris Walker at Vizynary created a fascinating interactive graphic of migration patterns within the United States based on US Census Bureau’s 2012 American Community Survey migration estimates. The visualization is a circle cut up into arcs, the light-colored pieces along the edge of the circle, each one representing a state. The arcs are connected to […]
Some assumptions about government documents
Riffing off of Barbara Fister’s “Some assumptions about libraries” in which she lists her insights and reflections on the purpose and nature of academic libraries, we thought we’d list our assumptions about government information collections and services, which can be seen as addenda or corollaries to Fister’s library assumptions: 1) Government documents are the cornerstone […]
Defense Department to privatize its public domain media archive
According to a recent GCN article “DOD wants you … to browse its visual library” the US Department of Defense has entered into a “no cost” contract with a company called T3 Media to have them digitize DoD’s massive image and video archive. It seems that DoD employees will get free access to the digital […]
Doc of the day: or why we need robust cataloging standards
I was just filling in the GODORT notable documents form — and all of our readers should do so ASAP! — and the issue of cataloging raised its ugly head. I just submitted nomination for the title “Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2010” co-published by NOAA, WMO, UNEP, and EU. The document is important in […]
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