FGI submits OMB A-130 comments. Help us raise OMB awareness of library issues
As FGI readers will know, OMB has asked the public for comments and suggestions to revise its Circular A-130 “Managing Information as a Strategic Resource.” Interestingly, they have chosen to manage the commenting process on http://github.com, the collaborative software versioning and management site. We at FGI have submitted a comment (or “issue” in GitHub parlance) […]
Public comment open until Nov 20 on OMB Circular A-130
[UPDATE 11/20/15: OMB has extended the commenting period for 15 days until December 5, 2015. JRJ] Office of Management and Budget’s Circular A-130 Managing Information as a Strategic Resource — along with the 1980 Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 94 Stat. 2812, which “establishes a broad mandate for agencies to perform their information resources management activities […]
Information sharing and the National Plan
(Background here: http://freegovinfo.info/node/10285) At the 2015 Depository Library Council meeting on October 20th, Mary Alice Baish, Superintendent of Documents, informed the depository library community that in July, GPO had formally requested permission from the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) to allow Regionals to discard documents in tangible formats that have been retained for seven years […]
New site for veterans
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs quietly unveiled the beta version of Vets.gov, a new site eventually intended to give users single sign-on access to thousands of online veteran services. On Veterans Day, VA Quietly Unveils New ‘Vets.gov’, By Mohana Ravindranath NextGov (November 11, 2015). Currently, the site is a bare-bones framework of that vision. […]
Tracking political advertising spending
Everything you need to know about political ads, by Jenn Topper, Sunlight Foundation (Nov. 10, 2015). ” Here’s what you need to know about political ads and the (lack of) disclosure around them.”