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What are we to keep? thoughts on the National Collection (DttP Spring 2015 feature article)
The Spring 2015 issue of Documents to the People (DttP) just arrived at my door. The feature article in this issue is titled “Thoughts on the National Collection” and was collaboratively written by myself, James R. Jacobs, along with Shari Laster, Aimee C. Quinn, and Barbie Selby. I’m posting my segment titled “What Are We […]
LLIS.gov going away and moving to HSDL.org and FEMA.gov
Are you pointing to documents at LLIS.gov? Those links appear to be broken. LLIS.gov (which points to llis.dhs.gov) has had a generic “Site under maintenance” page since at least December 2014. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS) program’s LLIS.gov website will cease independent operations and consolidate its content […]
There are alternatives. We have to take them.
Another excellent post from Barbara Fister: Rent Control. Inside Higher Education (Apr 27, 2015). Although Fister is writing about copyrighted information, much of what she says pertains to public domain government information if we continue down the road we are on of “partnering” with the private sector and promoting “digital collections” that we neither acquire […]
Focusing on the essentials at DLC
In anticipation of this week’s Depository Library Council meeting, FGI suggests a focus on the biggest challenges facing long-term preservation and access. The scope of the challenges we face is large and clear. The quantity of government information that is “born-digital” each year is literally orders of magnitude greater than the quantity of government publications […]
House Judiciary Committee Web Page Labeled “Hilariously Terrible”
This is snarky fun. Brenda Barron on the Elegant Themes website recently wrote about Bad Web Design: A Look At The Most Hilariously Terrible Websites From Around The Web. She tags a lot of really bad, even painfully bad, web sites. Although she describes the House Judiciary Committee web site as “appropriate” for the US […]
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