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FDLP.gov hacked — cute but a little NSFW
I happened to surf over to the FDLP site today around 4:30pm and found the FDLP.gov had been hacked and taken over by SoWa BeZ OkA — which translates from Polish into “Owl without an eye.” The group seems to be a band of some kind, but I can’t tell. But it wasn’t just a […]
CLOCKSS passes TRAC audit, certified as trustworthy repository!
Congratulations CLOCKSS!! The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) just released the findings of their TRAC audit of CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS)). The CLOCKSS Archive is a private LOCKSS network, much like the LOCKSS-USDOCS archive. And what’s more, according to David Rosenthal’s blog post announcing the successful audit, CLOCKSS received the […]
John Oliver blasts public apathy over ‘The Most Dangerous Things On Earth’
“Nuclear weapons are dangerous, mmmkay?” According to a recent CRS Report “U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues” (RL33640) — Thanks Steven Aftergood for posting this and many other reports from the Congressional Research Service! — the United States has about 2000 deployed nuclear warheads (I forgive John Oliver for his incited number of […]
Letter in support of the NTIS
Things seem to be coming to a slow boil with the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). We wrote about Senate Bill 2206 the “Let Me Google That For You” Act on April 11, 2014, and again earlier this month to report about how the American Library Association and its Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) were […]
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