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USDA restricting access to 7,584 fruit paintings
Here’s another story of a digitization effort that’s not been made publicly available. USDA’s National Agricultural Library hosts the Pomological Watercolor Collection, which contains 7,584 historical — and beautiful! — agricultural watercolor paintings of different varieties of fruits and nuts, commissioned between 1886 and 1942. Through a grant from an environmental non-profit called The Ceres […]
FBI replies to Stingray FOIA request with 5,000 blank pages
This is an unbelievable story about the FBI being complete jerks about the FOIA requests they’ve received from MuckRock in regards to fake cellphone towers called “Stingrays” which are used to “gather identity/location information” on everyone that passes by them — which btw I had no idea these things were real! MuckRock received almost 5000 […]
More than 1,000 Government Domain Names Terminated
The government transparency website MuckRock has posted a list of all “.gov” domain names that have been terminated (including the reasons for termination) within the last ten years. The list was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the General Services Administration. Terminated .gov Domain Names. Muckrock. The Dot-Gov Rejects: The 1,000 […]
Budget cut means likely closure of Vermont’s state law library
A Vermont journalism website reports that cuts to the Vermont Department of Libraries will likely result in the closure of the state law library. The State Librarian says that The law library is “going to disappear.” If it is closed, Vermont would be one of the few in the country without a state law library. […]
Census Reduces Data for Mid-Sized Places
Here is a story about how diminishing Census data will affect rural areas in the United States. The story describes the effects of the Census Bureau’s cut to the American Community Survey. It says that, for nearly a third of U.S. counties it will mean “getting a murkier picture of their people and economies.” The […]
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