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Public Printer Names New Members to Depository Library Council
Congratulations to our FGI colleague Daniel Cornwall, as well as to David Cismowski — for his 2nd tour of duty no less! — Rich Gause, Scott Matheson, and Teri Taylor for being named to the Depository Library Council! The five new DLC members for the June 1, 2014 – May 31, 2017 term are: David […]
Free Government eBooks Now Available From GPO
The Government Printing Office (GPO) announced today that it is now making eBooks available in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). Catalog records include descriptive information, as well as Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURLs) and the ebooks are available in .mobi, (Kindle) .epub (most other eBook readers) formats as well as other formats such […]
GPO 2014 Strategic Plan
The Government Printing Office has released its 2014 Strategic Plan along with an “Accomplishments Report.” GPO Strategic Plan, FY2014-2018 Fy 2013 Strategic Plan Accomplishments Report, (October 2013). Press Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 8, 2014 No. 14-01 GPO EMPHASIZES CONTINUING IMPROVEMENTS IN 2014 STRATEGIC PLAN WASHINGTON – The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has released […]
NARA releases its annual Records Management Self-Assessment and a reminder to report fugitive documents
It takes a village ... of government information librarians to make sure that government documents within scope of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) are collected, described, and distributed to FDLP libraries around the country. Here's an example of how the FDLP safety net works for fugitive government documents -- those documents that *are* within scope, but have not made their way into the FDLP system.
- My friend Gary Price tweets about NARA's release of its 2012 annual "Records Management Self-Assessment" which tells the good, bad and ugly about whether or not Federal agencies are compliant with statutory and regulatory records management requirements.
- I retweeted it as I know lots of my followers are interested to know how federal agencies are doing in their archival responsibilities. Continue reading
Who Pays for Access and Preservation?
July 1, 2013 / 2 Comments on Who Pays for Access and Preservation?
A recent battle in the California Legislature over public records has a lesson for all of us who work with government information. A story in the Los Angeles Times sums up the issue exactly: "In the end it wasn’t really about public records or the people’s right to see them. It was about money." Continue reading →
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