Download FRED Data Directly in Excel
I’ve always had a thing for FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data). And now they’re providing a free excel add-in for 290,000 data series from various sources (e.g., BEA, BLS, Census, and OECD). Thanks St Louis Fed! The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Data (FRED) Add-In is free software that will significantly reduce the […]
Special Newsweek Edition, DECLASSIFIED, Further Declassified
Newsweek magazine, has a special edition called “Declassified: Exposing the Secrets: Files Dossiers and Documents from the FBI, CIA, JSOC, White House, NASA, and more.” It is “a curated list of the most noteworthy documents declassified in 2015.” Although Newsweek was forced to cut out some of the background stories of these declassified documents (due […]
Open Letter to GPO regarding the Regional Discard Policy
A group of government information librarians have written an open letter to the GPO Superintendent of Documents asking questions regarding the implementation of the new regional discard policy. Below is the text of the letter. We will also post GPO’s answers to these important questions here on FGI. Dear Superintendent of Documents Mary Alice Baish, […]
CISA is back. Act now! #StopCISA
A secretly negotiated version of The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) has been slipped into the 2000+ page “omnibus” spending bill that Congress must pass to avoid a government shutdown. That massive bill will be voted on this THURSDAY! ALA and many others have been fighting this bill for years. The bill encourages private sector […]
A new collection of CRS Reports
A new web site is hosting publicly accessible Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports. The Washington Post quotes Antoine McGrath, who is collaborating with software programmers on the project, as saying that they scan about 100 sites for metadata in CRS studies and host those they find. The oldest one they have so far is from […]