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Minnesota librarians push to curb NSA snooping
“With mass collection of private data, whether library records or cellphone activity, the decision on privacy has been taken away from the individual. The potential harm comes from not knowing what has been collected or how it will be used.” Great quote from Kirsten Clark, our own Regional FDLP Librarian at the University of Minnesota. […]
Canadian libricide: Harper government dumps centuries of irreplaceable environmental archives
This is absolutely tragic. In 2012, when Canada’s Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would be digitized first. However, reporting coming out of Canada now is finding that, along with the closure of some of the world’s finest […]
Restless America: 2012 US migration flows based on ACS data
Chris Walker at Vizynary created a fascinating interactive graphic of migration patterns within the United States based on US Census Bureau’s 2012 American Community Survey migration estimates. The visualization is a circle cut up into arcs, the light-colored pieces along the edge of the circle, each one representing a state. The arcs are connected to […]
Some assumptions about government documents
Riffing off of Barbara Fister’s “Some assumptions about libraries” in which she lists her insights and reflections on the purpose and nature of academic libraries, we thought we’d list our assumptions about government information collections and services, which can be seen as addenda or corollaries to Fister’s library assumptions: 1) Government documents are the cornerstone […]
Government Link Rot
January 3, 2014 / Leave a comment
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 […]
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