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Rapid and Thorough Deletion of Environmental Information by Trump Administration
The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) has released a report which documents the rapid and thorough deletion of environmental information by the Trump administration. Press Release: Report Shows Rapid and Thorough Deletion of Environmental Information by Trump Administration FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (August 6, 2025). Most dramatically, information about environmental racism has been entirely excised […]
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, […]
Call to arms: What government information librarians can do to help save critical federal information from being lost
What is a government information librarian to do during these times when the very public information we base our daily work around is being redacted, cleansed, and deleted? First, make yourself aware of all the work that is already being done (and has been being done since 2008 and before). Our friend and PEGI colleague […]
The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is
[This post is adapted from our forthcoming book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future.] Today we want to clarify something important about preserving government information. There is a difference between the government changing a policy and the government erasing information, but the line between those two has blurred in the digital age. When a […]
Senators Markey and Hirono and Representative Adams introduce Public Archives Resiliency Act
This is an interesting development. Senators Markey and Hirono and Representative Adams have introduced the Public Archives Resiliency Act — S. 5531 and H.R. 10383. While this legislation will probably go nowhere under a GOP-majority House and Senate, it is significant that legislators are at least starting to think about the need to fund digital […]
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