Former CRS Researcher Calls for Public Access to CRS Reports
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) asked Kevin Kosar, who was a researcher at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for 11 years, to talk about the concerns often expressed by Hill staffers regarding making formal CRS reports public. Former CRS Researcher Calls for Public Access (August 19, 2015). Kosar gives an informed, insider perspective on […]
New FRUS volume: 1969–1976, Volume XXIII, Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1969–1972
Yay! A new volume of Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) has just been released. I’m assuming that GPO will be distributing this volume via the FDLP, but in the meantime, it’s available as a PDF on the State Department site. I hope GPO grabs a copy, stores it and makes it available via […]
Some good news re: “link rot”
Charlotte Stichter says that new reports from the Library of Congress Law Library’s Global Legal Research Directorate will soon have references that include a link to an archived version of the reference using perma.cc. The announcement appears on the blog of the Law Librarians of the Library of Congress, but please see also Herbert Van […]
White House Blog Redesigned
You might want to check out the changes to the White House Blog. It is now mobile-friendly and thankfully, has an RSS feed and RSS feeds for the President’s and Vice President’s schedules. How We Changed the White House Blog by Ashleigh Axios (August 13, 2015 at 12:45 PM ET).
For God’s Sake, Stop Digitizing Paper
A recent ALA publication reports on preservation activities in libraries and questions whether libraries are devoting too much of their limited resources to digitizing paper. This fits what we have long argued here at FGI that FDLP priorities should be on preserving the vast amount of born digital government information rather than on digitizing and […]