Sunsetting of the CIA World Factbook
The CIA and its predecessors have published some version of the World Factbook since 1943! However, according to a statement last week from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the historic and world-renowned publication World Factbook has been terminated and all previous versions have been removed from the CIA site. The CIA did not provide any […]
Data.gov beta front end released
A few days ago, data.gov announced the soft launch (unfortunately on LinkedIn, NOT on their own site, nor as an official press release 😐 ) of a new beta catalog frontend, and more significantly have a new in-house data aggregation process which exposes their harvesting process. The system provides visibility into how agency datasets are […]
Secrecy and Society call for Papers: “Subjugated Knowledges”
The journal Secrecy and Society — which is published by SJSU School of Information — has a special issue CFP for the upcoming issue titled “Subjugated Knowledges.” The issue is focused in the areas of history, policy, ethics, sociology, and politics and will explore the “disappearance of facts and data and their replacement by the […]
GPO and Library of Congress Digitize 10,000 Volumes of the United States Serial Set
Happy new year readers! Here’s a bit of good news in the midst of all of the craziness (as an aside, has our federal government gone insane?!). I just received a press release from the Government Publishing Office (GPO) that GPO and the Library of Congress have digitized 10,000 Volumes of the United States Serial […]
Preserving Government Information podcast at New Books Network
James and I were interviewed by Adam Kriesberg on the New Books Network Library Science podcast in a discussion of our book, Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future. Adam is an Associate Professor at the Simmons University School of Library and Information Science where his research and teaching interests lie in the intersecting domains […]