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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Government shutdown causing information access problems
January 14, 2019 / 4 Comments on 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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