CIA Rebuttal to Senate Torture Report
A new, commercially-published book provides official responses from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to 2014 Senate Torture Report. REBUTTAL: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program, Bill Harlow, Editor, U.S. Naval Institute. Sep 2015. 418 pp. Introduction and essays © 2015 Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Contents: […]
Using Government Data to Create A Statistical Portrait of Government Student Loans
An interesting paper that uses government administrative data to analyze student loans. A crisis in student loans? How changes in the characteristics of borrowers and in the institutions they attended contributed to rising loan defaults, by Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. BPEA Conference Draft, September, 2015. This paper examines the […]
Want the federal govt to do something? Start a kickstarter campaign
This is a strange and interesting twist of a story. About a week ago, a couple of graphic designers from NY City decided they wanted to crowdfund the republication of NASA’s 1975 Graphic Standards Manual as a tribute to Designers Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn who originally created the manual — and which was revoked […]
One year later…what’s happening with Regionals and discards?
In April 2014, GPO presented a draft policy (also known as an “SOD” or “Superintendent of Documents Public Policy Statement”) that would create a mechanism for Regional depository libraries to request permission to substitute specified tangible holdings for authenticated electronic holdings in FDsys. FGI has already responded in detail to this proposal (see “Why GPO’s […]
Harmonizing libraries and e-government by combining services and collections
To me, it is odd, or at least ironic, that the library government information community has been studying and debating the same issues about the digital future of the FDLP for almost 20 years, without any clear resolution. I was reminded of this today when I got a request for a copy of a very […]