Right to govt information the cornerstone of the GPO
For my first blog post, I want to begin by saying that I am honored to be the guest "Blogger of the Month" and thrilled to share my thoughts on various tools, technologies, trends, and other events that impact my professional passions. Our Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the people have the right to its Government's information. That is the cornerstone of the U.S. Government Printing Office's (GPO) Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and a cause to which I have dedicated the past 16 years of my Federal service. Technology and innovation are core elements necessary for change. As the Director of Library Services & Content Management and the acting Superintendent of Documents at GPO, I am constantly seeking ways in which GPO and the FDLP can improve the dissemination of Federal information to the public as well as ways in which GPO can better serve our library partners. Many of the topics that I will be covering this month will relate to the challenges of keeping up with the latest technology, improving our services to our partner libraries, and ways in which we can stay innovative. I am eager to read your feedback and encourage readers to stay in touch even after I pass the torch to next month's blogger. Continue reading
Please welcome Ric Davis: blogger of the month for August, 2008
And now the moment you've all been waiting for when we unveil our special guest blogger this month. So please welcome to the podium Ric Davis, acting Superintendent of Documents and Director of Library Services & Content Management at the U.S. Government Printing Office(read more of Ric's bio here). We're really excited to have Ric blogging for us and look forward to the conversations this month. Take it away Ric! Continue reading
Ric Davis: BOTM for August, 2008
Ric Davis currently serves as the Acting Superintendent of Documents while continuing to serve as Director of Library Services and Content Management at the U.S. Government Printing Office. Davis coordinates and administers a variety of GPO initiatives, including the Federal Depository Library Program, the Cataloging and Indexing Program, the International Exchange Service and the ByLaw Program. Additionally, he manages GPO Access, GPO's Web site that is a leading source of free and official Government information. Continue reading
Stay tuned: special guest blogger for the month of August!
We've got a special treat in store for the month of August with a very special blogger of the month. I'm not going to tell yet, but suffice it to say, it's gonna be BIG! So stay tuned :-) Continue reading
State Dept Countermeasures Directorate launches public exhibition on surveillance technology
US Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security Countermeasures Directorate has recently launched a new public exhibition on cold-war era eavesdropping gadgets entitled, "Listening In: Electronic Eavesdropping in the Cold War Era." Scientific American posted a slide show ("Spying on the spies") of the exhibition and much of the text written about the devices, from old-school keyloggers to phone tap detectors. The permanent exhibit is located in the lobby of a State Department building in Rosslyn, Va. Perhaps one of our DC readers can help us out and confirm the location. According to the State Department's list of field offices, there are 2 buildings in Rosslyn within a few blocks of each other: 1400 Wilson Boulevard and 1801 North Lynn Street.
MASON A3B RECEIVER: U.S. State Department engineers working for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security needed a receiver in order to find devices subversively transmitting signals to the enemy. The best kind of receiver was one that could be moved from room to room without looking like a radio, and the Mason A3 more than fit the bill.Continue reading
