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Lunchtime listen: Barbara Fister keynote at Library Technology Conference 2014
Barbara Fister starts out her keynote — at a library technology conference no less — by saying “it’s not about technology…the work you do really is about understanding people and how they connect to one another and how they share ideas. The way we think about our purpose shapes what we do.” and she was […]
Readers or Consumers? Citizens or Customers?
Are users of government information citizens or “customers”? What would Ranganathan say? Barbara Fister addresses the topic of library attitudes to their communities in her newest post on InsideHigherEd Books Are For Use, by Barbara Fister, Inside Higher Ed. Library Babel Fish (January 23, 2014). I have argued that as we increased access to information […]
Report on Wasteful Spending by the Federal Government speciously targets NTIS
I was over at Sabrina Pacifici’s ever-informative bespacific.com blog (subscribe, you’ll be glad you did!) to read about e-govt and public access during the last government shutdown and happened to see another post about Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-OKLA) latest “Report on Wasteful Spending by the Federal Government.” While I haven’t read the “report” in its entirety, […]
Center for Effective Government on Citizen Access to Information in 2013
The Center for Effective Government has a 2000 word article that examines citizen access to government information in many areas: Chemical Security, Freedom of Information, Security and Secrecy, Environmental Right to Know, Public Data and Websites, Spending Transparency, Open, Accountable Government, Government Matters, DATA Act, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Freedom […]
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