State Agency Databases Activity Report March 30, 1014
It was a busy week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. NO MORE ORPHANS! In the past week, Mississippi was adopted by Aimee Slater of Brooklyn College and Virginia was adopted by Louise Buckley of University of New Hampshire. In the past we have had requests for pages on US […]
Lunchtime listen: Barbara Fister keynote at Library Technology Conference 2014
Barbara Fister starts out her keynote — at a library technology conference no less — by saying “it’s not about technology…the work you do really is about understanding people and how they connect to one another and how they share ideas. The way we think about our purpose shapes what we do.” and she was […]
Spy Chief James Clapper Wins Rosemary Award
What’s the opposite of “prestigious?” The National Security Archive today named DNI James Clapper as this year’s Rosemary Award winner. The award — named for Rosemary Woods, Richard Nixon’s secretary who erased 18 1/2 minutes of audio tape key to the Watergate investigation — is awarded each year for worst open government performance. The National […]
FBI labels FOIA superhero Ryan Shapiro’s dissertation a threat to national security
Ryan Shapiro, a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a FOIA superhero. He has become the “most prolific” FOIA requester the FBI has ever had, and they seem to be actively obstructing his legal right for documents in order to complete his research. Check out this DemocracyNow interview with him as he […]
State Agency Databases Activity Report March 23, 2014
It was an active week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. Activity was focused on fixing links as part of our quarterly link checking process. NEW VOLUNTEERS I’m happy to announce that Liz Paulus is returning as the Oregon volunteer. She will be leading a small group of Oregon librarians […]