DOJ Gov Doc: Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department [March 4, 2015]
Report Summary: …Ferguson’s law enforcement practices are shaped by the City’s focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs. This emphasis on revenue has compromised the institutional character of Ferguson’s police department, contributing to a pattern of unconstitutional policing, and has also shaped its municipal court, leading to procedures that raise due process concerns […]
GPO Observes 154th Birthday With New Name, New Logo
GPO is observing its 154th anniversary with a new logo. Here is the press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 4, 2015 No. 15-04 GPO OBSERVES 154th BIRTHDAY WITH NEW NAME, NEW LOGO WASHINGTON – The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) marks its 154th anniversary of opening for business today. Since March 4, 1861, GPO has […]
Docs of the week: Ferguson Grand Jury, 100 years of INS annual reports, and the historic Moynihan Report
Here at Stanford libraries, my colleague Kris Kasianovitz and I are busy putting context to the *massive* haystack that is the Internet — and we could use some help (want to be a lostdocs collector?!)! Below are just a few of the documents we’ve collected in the last week, stored in our Stanford Digital Repository […]
“An alarmingly casual indifference to accuracy and authenticity.” What we know about digital surrogates
In a new article in Portal, Diana Kichuk examines the reliability and accuracy of digital text extracted from printed books in five digital libraries: the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, the HathiTrust, Google Books, and the Digital Public Library of America. She focuses particularly on the accuracy and utility of the digital text for reading in […]
Beyond the Numbers
Document of the day: Beyond the Numbers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The wonderful Scout Report a the University of Wisconsin-Madison, highlighted this gem in its most recent newsletter. The Scout’s description says it all: For readers who love stats and facts, Beyond the Numbers, which is published biweekly by the Bureau of Labor […]