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Photographs and images from the government
Government “documents” come in all shapes and sizes and formats. I have never delved much into images available from government agencies, but there are a lot and it is increasingly easy to find collections of them. The current (April 4, 2014 — Volume 20, Number 13) edition of The Scout Report, for example, describes the […]
Public Printer Names New Members to Depository Library Council
Congratulations to our FGI colleague Daniel Cornwall, as well as to David Cismowski — for his 2nd tour of duty no less! — Rich Gause, Scott Matheson, and Teri Taylor for being named to the Depository Library Council! The five new DLC members for the June 1, 2014 – May 31, 2017 term are: David […]
State Agency Databases Activity Report March 30, 1014
It was a busy week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. NO MORE ORPHANS! In the past week, Mississippi was adopted by Aimee Slater of Brooklyn College and Virginia was adopted by Louise Buckley of University of New Hampshire. In the past we have had requests for pages on US […]
Lunchtime listen: Barbara Fister keynote at Library Technology Conference 2014
Barbara Fister starts out her keynote — at a library technology conference no less — by saying “it’s not about technology…the work you do really is about understanding people and how they connect to one another and how they share ideas. The way we think about our purpose shapes what we do.” and she was […]
Spy Chief James Clapper Wins Rosemary Award
What’s the opposite of “prestigious?” The National Security Archive today named DNI James Clapper as this year’s Rosemary Award winner. The award — named for Rosemary Woods, Richard Nixon’s secretary who erased 18 1/2 minutes of audio tape key to the Watergate investigation — is awarded each year for worst open government performance. The National […]
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