Book lists…
I think it fascinating that government agencies create “reading lists” of recommended books. The Ninth Circuit Library of the United States Courts has a list called Understanding Freedom’s Heritage: How to Keep and Defend Liberty by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy(!). It is described as being prepared for young people and “includes some acknowledged classics and […]
Pete Seeger
In memory of a great American. Pete Seeger who helped create the modern American folk music movement and co-wrote some of its most enduring songs died on Monday at the age of 94. In this performance of “This Land is Your Land,” performed at the “We Are One” Presidential Inaugural Concert on January 19, 2009, […]
UK colonial files are still secret
Robert Gildea, Professor of Modern History at University of Oxford, has this comment about the movement to get the UK’s Foreign Office to release a massive archive of public documents in The Conversation, an independent source of news and views from the academic and research community. Public interest demands the release of hidden colonial files, […]
QOTD: Richard Pearce-Moses
Quote of the day: “The ‘what’ and the ‘why’ of our jobs remain the same: We must still select, acquire, organize, provide access and preserve our collections. But ‘how’ we do that changes.” — Richard Pearce-Moses, currently director of College of Information & Mathematical Sciences at Clayton State University, formerly deputy director for technology and […]
Information is not a Service, Service is not Information
January 27, 2014 / Leave a comment
John Shuler and his colleagues comment on the effects of the recent government shutdown on information access in this GIQ editorial: E-government without government, John A. Shuler, Paul T. Jaeger, and John Carlo Bertot. Government Information Quarterly (In Press, Corrected Proof) DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2013.11.004 [subscriber access required]. The authors rightly point out that the shutdown caused an […]
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