PACER’s bad math overcharges users. US Courts Administrative Office sued
The Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) document system of the US Courts provides online access to US Appellate, District and Bankruptcy court records. But this access is not free; PACER charges users $.10/page to access and download court documents. For years, many have pointed out both the technical and philosophical problems with the […]
DLC responds to open letter regarding the new Regional discard policy
On December 18, 2015, a group of 16 librarians wrote an open letter to GPO regarding the implementation of the new Regional discard policy (here’s more on our coverage of the regional discard policy). The letter asked a series of questions that the signatories felt would need to be thought about — if not answered […]
NYPL makes 187,000 digital items available in public domain collection
Wow I’ve been lost in this new public domain search from NY Public Library’s NYPL Labs. And they’ve made the data and code available on github! Check it out for yourself. Go Public Domain! On January 6th, 2016, The New York Public Library made over 187K digital items in the public domain available for high […]
State of the union 2016: tag cloud and non-.gov sites
President Obama’s last State of the Union (SOTU) address was tonight. Below you can see the tag cloud of his speech (thanks TagCrowd!) as well as Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC)’s GOP response. There’s plenty of analysis out there, so I won’t deign to add my own. But I will point out a couple of things […]