Reposting from Information Observatory: “Academic libraries in class society”
Over at Information Observatory, Shinjoung Yeo and Dan Schiller just co-wrote a thoughtful piece called “Academic libraries in class society.” Since I consulted a bit on the piece, they graciously agreed that I could re-post it here on FGI. Please have a read and let us know in the comments what you think. A shocking […]
EDGI’s new public comments initiative
Every once in a while, I get a question from a researcher about finding public comments for some regulation administered by an executive agency. All public comments, whether submitted electronically or in paper form, are now made available for public viewing in the electronic public docket at Regulations.gov, but that was not always the case. […]
End of Term crawl 2024 is now underway!
Well it’s that time again. The 2024 End of Term web crawl of the federal .gov/.mil web space (and other domains 🙂 ) has begun. We have just posted our first public announcement on the Internet Archive blog. As we have done since 2008 (NARA did the first comprehensive crawl in 2004), a group of […]
HHS launches Heat and Health Index to identify communities hit hardest by extreme heat
This is a very interesting new tool. According to Nextgov/FCW, The Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has launched a new tool called the “heat and health index” to identify communities hit hardest by extreme heat. The assessments are done by top code and include […]
Reference question and the saga of chasing down a Congressionally mandated report
I had a student come to me looking for a federal document called “Population representation in the military services.” She was doing research into the history of enlistment in the armed forces and was interested in finding statistics on the number of enlistments and applications to enlist per state from 1985 – 2000. The report […]