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Writer’s Guide to Government Information: Creative Promotion
I (Daniel) have a dream of making government information relevant to people’s lives regardless of walk of life. I think it is a dream many government information specialists/documents librarians share. In making government information relevant to people we need to answer the question in their minds – “What’s in it for me?” If we can answer that […]
COL’s FDLP Task Force Survey and FGI’s responses
[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 […]
Government Link Rot
Over the holidays, we switched FGI to new CMS software and a new theme and, in the process, installed some new back-end tools allowing us to do things like easily check for broken links. FGI went online in November 2004, so we have a little more than 9 years of outgoing links. Of those, 2676 […]
Reflections on the end of a year and the beginning of a new year
James and I were both impressed to see that MLIS student Crystal Vicente posted a link on govdoc-l to her paper about the effects on government information of the government shutdown. It is great to see library students addressing the issues that confront the future of government information. We’d like to see more students […]
Information is not a Service, Service is not Information
January 27, 2014 / Leave a comment
John Shuler and his colleagues comment on the effects of the recent government shutdown on information access in this GIQ editorial: E-government without government, John A. Shuler, Paul T. Jaeger, and John Carlo Bertot. Government Information Quarterly (In Press, Corrected Proof) DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2013.11.004 [subscriber access required]. The authors rightly point out that the shutdown caused an […]
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