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Federal government shutdown (10/1/2025)

The federal government has shut down as of 12:01 on October 1, 2025. This means that much of the federal government will not be operating and thousands of federal employees will be furloughed – check out Federal Harms Tracker for more. The Government Publishing Office (GPO) sent out this piece to the federal depository library […]

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How the shutdown is affecting flow of government information

Two things to note this morning as the government shutdown continues. A lot of government information is being affected. Examples: Hampering Climate Efforts weather reports Science and Research data Economic data Consumer protection Climate Data NOAA GDP even Statistics Canada! But, a lot of information was in the pipeline and is still being released. Gary […]

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Government shutdown causing information access problems

Twitter and newspapers are buzzing with complaints about widespread problems with access to government information and data (see for example, Wall Street Journal (paywall 😐 ), ZDNet News, Pew Center, Washington Post, Scientific American, TheVerge, and FedScoop to name but a few). Maybe when/if the government opens again, we should scrape the NIST and CSRC […]

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Government Shutdown Contingency Plans 2015

The Office of Management and Budget has links to how agencies are preparing for the possibility of a government shutdown: Agency Contingency Plans. See also: Government Shutdown? Some Federal IT Systems Would be Unplugged, Websites Go Offline, By Jack Moore, NextGov (September 24, 2015). And don’t forget, FDLP libraries could collect instead of pointing. It […]

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