Waxman subpoenas Rice and the RNC
Today, Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA.), Chairman of the Oversight and Govt Reform Committee, approved of a subpoena for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice regarding the claim that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger and the Republican National Committee (RNC) to provide answers to basic questions about the use of RNC e-mail accounts by White House officials. Things are really getting interesting now!
"The Administration’s claim that Iraq could pose a nuclear threat was at the center of its case for war. Indeed this assertion was key to the decisions of many Members of Congress, including myself, to support the resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq. It therefore raised enormously serious questions when Congress and the public learned that there were flaws, not just minor ones but serious flaws, with the intelligence underpinning the Administration’s nuclear case.â€and... Continue reading
EPA library closings “Orwellian”
Why would a federal agency trash its libraries?, by Jeff Ruch, High Country News, April 9, 2007.
Then, after it had already begun closing libraries, EPA discovered that copyright limitations prevented it from digitizing materials not written by EPA staff. As a result, hundreds of reports from the agency's contractors, as well as academic and corporate researchers, will remain in hard copy, but housed in one of three "repositories." At times, EPA's actions have taken on an Orwellian cast, as thousands of documents and whole collections were hastily dispersed to anyone willing to accept them. The three repositories of documents have grown into giant information dumps whose contents will remain un-cataloged for years to come, and in Chicago, the largest regional library, furnishings -- shelves, desks and cabinets worth some $40,000 -- were sold for $327.Continue reading
Roughly 2/3 of DLC LOCKSS Session Available
We've updated our Spring 2007 DLC conference page with audio and a rough transcript from the LOCKSS panel. We regret that our reporter missed the first 20 minutes. The session began at 1330 and our audio and transcript start at 1351. We figure LOCKSS is so important that missing some of it was better than not posting. If you were at the panel, please fill us in about the first 20 minutes. Continue reading
200704151330 FDLP/DLC : LOCKSS
Intrepid FGI Reporter James Staub got in about 20 minutes late to this session and the audio and the rough transcript reflect that. Non-anonymous corrections are welcome. Rough Transcript: 200704151330 FDLP/DLC : LOCKSS cowell@stanford.edu [I came in late] Scott Matheson 1351 LOCKSS is easy to install 1354 Social solution to a social problem 1357 Although publishers provide authoritative changes that propagate through a LOCKSS group, there's still a cache of original material. 1400 Technical description of what happens: “patron gets content†1401 closed stacks analogy 1408 Q how do you reconcile old computers and massive needs for storage space? DOE collection is 3 terabytes 1411 Q security – viruses? 1413 Comment – large collection publishers should themselves be LOCKSS Alliance partners 1414 Space really hasn't been an issue so far. 1415 What a failure looks like – SM displays a failure at permanent.access.gov that was averted by LOCKSS 1420 Q Why did GPO choose to republish? Patricia Kenly, Georgia Tech 1423 workshop this summer 1429 our Associate Director has called LOCKSS our preservation strategy for digital information 1429 open source is good patricia.kenly@library.gatech.edu 1430 Q can we digitize, gather, republish, and LOCKSS older government information to make it available? EC: yes SM: your IT people understand redundancy EC: LOCKSS team is looking more at front-end crawling, and having discussions with Archive-It Continue reading
Angie Cope, Senior Academic Librarian
My name is Angie Cope and I am a Senior Academic Librarian at the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Libraries. I have an M.L.I.S. from UW - Milwaukee ; an M.S. in Resource Planning and a B.S. in Geography both from Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU). In my current position, I am principally a catalog librarian - cataloging maps, atlases and geospatial data. My secondary responsibilities include collection development. I also assist with outreach, reference, web page maintenance and other projects around my library. For more information on my library, visit me here: AGS Library I also moderate a popular map librarian discussion list called Maps-L. The list maintain an subscribership of around 1,000 people from around the world. The topics discussed include anything related to map librarianship. Often the list is a bit of an announcement board but frequently serves as a great place to pose questions to colleagues. Issues relating to cataloging, air photos, scanning policies, government map index availability or interpreting unusual map codes are examples of what has been discussed in the past. For more information on Maps-L, take a look here: Maps-L Info I'm looking forward to guest blogging in May of 2007 and being a part of FGI. Continue reading