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Save Government Information!
Library Journal published our opinion piece in its “Peer to Peer Review” section today: Save Government Information! by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs. Library Journal Peer to Peer Review (March 15, 2018). In it, we make the case that the impending Title 44 bill does not go far enough to building a truly […]
Suggestions for Revisions to Chapter 5 of the Title 44 Bill
The draft bill to reform Title 44 of the U.S. Code provides some much needed improvements over the current law. It explicitly requires GPO to follow existing privacy laws and would, for the first time, legally require GPO to preserve digital government information. It also removes the provision that allows GPO to charge for online […]
FGI’s analysis of the draft Title 44 “reform” bill
[Note: We wrote this analysis based on the text of the draft bill of December 1, 2017. Just before posting we received a new draft bill dated December 11, 2017. A quick comparison shows few significant changes between the two bills, but there are some improvements (we note one below.) We encourage you to suggest […]
New GPO IG report includes troubling findings regarding fugitives and FDLP
“although the exact number of USDA publications could not be determined, the amount would be a small percentage because GPO focuses most of its efforts on congressional publications.” We just came across this recent report of the GPO Inspector General (IG) called “Additional Information Needed for Ensuring Availability of Government Information Through the Federal Depository […]
Patrice McDermott posts Draft letter re DOI records disposition request to NARA. Requests comments
November 16, 2018 / 6 Comments on Patrice McDermott posts Draft letter re DOI records disposition request to NARA. Requests comments
We posted about the Dept of Interior records schedule request to NARA and have been actively working on this issue for a few weeks now. Patrice McDermott, Director of Government Information Watch — many of you will have known Patrice from her ALA Washington Office days or laster as director of Open The Government — […]
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