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Internet Archive designated an FDLP Library!

This bit of good news just dropped! The Internet Archive has joined the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The FDLP is a network of over 1000 libraries around the country who receive government publications from the Government Publishing Office (GPO) and offer public services to help those in their communities access the great wide world […]

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Vicky Reich and David Rosenthal receive CNI Paul Evans Peters Award for LOCKSS

Congratulations to Vicky and David, founders of LOCKSS for receiving the Paul Evans Peters Award! this is a HUGE and justified honor for their lifetimes’ impactful work in libraries and digital preservation. They join other luminaries who have received the Peters Award, among them Tim Berners Lee, Vint Serf, Brewster Kahle, Paul Ginsparg, Daniel Atkins, […]

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Public access to Congressionally mandated reports one step closer to reality!

Congress passed the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act (ACMRA) as part of the 2023 defense authorization bill — and many including FGI cheered! This week, the collection of these important reports came one step closer to reality as the White House Office of Management and Budget released detailed guidance for agencies to implement the […]

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FGI’s recommendations for creating the “all-digital FDLP”

As a follow-up to our recent post, “Some facts about the born-digital “National Collection,” we want to suggest some specific actions that GPO and FDLP libraries can take to do a better job of collecting and preserving born-digital content for the “National Collection”. For context, our starting assumption is that GPO and FDLP have two […]

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Some facts about the born-digital “National Collection”

We want to contribute a couple of facts and context about the born-digital “National Collection” to help inform the discussions on the priorities of GPO and FDLP libraries at the upcoming spring 2022 Depository Library Conference as well as discussions surrounding the work of the all-digital FDLP task force. We believe these facts lead to […]

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