Lunchtime Listen: Interview with Emily Sheketoff
Library Perspective. Interview with Emily Sheketoff, Executive Director of the Washington Office of the American Library Association, CSPAN, 11/06/2008. [30 minutes, Flash Video]. Sheketoff discusses federal copyright, privacy, and piracy policy and how those issues could be effected by President-Elect Barack Obama’s administration. Paul Sweeting, editor of Content Agenda was the guest host. Continue reading
Guide of the Week: Defense Spending
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently identified defense spending as one of 13 urgent issues facing the next President and Congress. Today on Guide of the Week, we'll talk about some librarian produced guides from the ALA GODORT Exchange Wiki that can help inform citizens, Congress and President-Elect Obama on this issue. While there do not appear to be any guides that specifically address defense spending alone, the guides below and taken together should be helpful:
- Military Information Resources and Periodicals (University of Colorado at Boulder Government Publications Library, 2008)
- Resources for Weapons Systems Policy Research (John Hernandez, New York University, 1999) Last updated 6/2004
- Budget (Bert Chapman, Purdue University, 2001) Last updated 3/10/2008
- U.S. Government Documents: The Budget Process (Jerry Breeze, Columbia University, 1999) Last Updated sometime in 2008
Moving Toward A 21st Century Right-To-Know Agenda
In case you missed this report when it was released last month (as an MS Word document), you might want to check it out now (in PDF):
- Moving Toward A 21st Century Right-To-Know Agenda Recommendations To President-Elect Obama And Congress, By the Right to Know Community, as distributed by the Obama-Biden Transition Project.
Obama Transition Team To Reveal Documents and Meetings with Groups
Your Seat at the Table, by Dan McSwain, Change.gov, December 5, 2008.
In a memo released today, Obama-Biden Transition Project Co-chair John D. Podesta announced that all policy documents from official meetings with outside organizations will be publicly available for review and discussion on Change.gov.There are some really interesting documents on the Your Seat at the Table page of Change.gov. See Also:
- Memorandum From John Podesta To All Obama Transition Project Staff (December 5, 2008) Re: “Seat at the Table” Transparency Policy.
- Video of Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs Michael Strautmanis
FDA to post information on WebMD
FDA to post information on WebMD, NextGov, Dec. 3, 2008.
FDA warnings and consumer information will appear on the online medical information portal WebMD.com under a partnership announced today. The agency will provide food-safety warnings, recalls and other alerts in a dedicated, ad-free section of WebMD's Web site, FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach said.Von Eschenbach said that the agency is exploring similar partnerships with other organizations. Continue reading