Shinjoung Yeo
ShinJoung Yeo is a PhD student and Fellow in the Information in Society program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Prior to returning to school, she was Coordinator for Reference and Outreach Services in the Stanford University Library, and also serves as Bibliographer for Communication in the Social Sciences Resource Group.
Shinjoung is a founding member of Radical Reference, a collective of volunteer library workers who use their professional skills to answer information needs from the general public, independent journalists, and activists. She was named 2005 Library Journal Mover & Shaker with her husband James R. Jacobs. She holds both a bachelors (1999) and masters (2002) degree in Journalism and Communications from the University of Oregon. She previously worked as a reference librarian at the University of California at San Diego and the San Diego Community College District Libraries, and as a news reporter for Korean-American Television in Los Angeles. In September of 2007 she and James took the Internet Archive's Bookmobile on a tour of Northern California, bringing a demonstration of print-on-demand and online library services to communities that do not have easy access to a wide variety of printed materials.
James A. Jacobs
Jim Jacobs (James A. Jacobs) is Data Services Librarian Emeritus, University of California San Diego. He is one of the co-creators of FreeGovInfo.info. Jim is a librarian, teacher, trainer, researcher, writer, and consultant. He specializes in government information, providing data services in libraries, OAIS, TRAC, and digital library certification. Jim received his Bachelors degree from Oberlin College and his MSLS from University of Southern California.
Jim served as data services librarian at the University of California San Diego for more than 20 years. In other libraries, he has worked as state government publications librarian, Librarian for Instruction and International Documents, and Documents Librarian. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Public Data Users and the Administrative Committee of the International Association for Social Science Services and Technology. Since 1990, he has co-taught the ICPSR summer workshop, "Providing Social Science Data Services: Strategies for Design and Operation." He is a technical consultant to the Center for Research Libraries on matters dealing with long-lived repositories and the certification of digital archives.
Some of Jim's publications include Preserving research data by James A. Jacobs and Charles Humphrey. Communications of the ACM. Volume 47, Number 9 (2004); Government Information in the Digital Age: The Once and Future Federal Depository Library Program by James A. Jacobs, James R. Jacobs, and Shinjoung Yeo, Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 2005; Government Information in the Digital Era: Free Culture or Controlled Substance? by Karrie Peterson and James A. Jacobs, Symposium on Free Culture and the Digital Library 2005, Emory University, October 2005; Government Documents at the Crossroads, Karrie Peterson, Elizabeth Cowell, and Jim Jacobs. American Libraries 32(8) (September 2001): 52-55; and "The Technical is Political," Jim Jacobs, Karrie Peterson, Of Significance..., 3(1) 2001, p.25-35, Association of Public Data Users.
Jim can be reached at jajacobs at ucsd.edu
Continue readingDaniel Cornwall
Daniel Cornwall was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He lived in California, Texas and Florida before moving to Juneau, Alaska in 1998. Daniel graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science from UT Austin. He works for the Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives & Museums, which is not associated in any way whatsoever with Free Government Information. Daniel is currently the Head of Technology and Instructional Services, but spent seven years (1999-2007) as the federal and state documents librarian for the Alaska State Library. His full professional history can be found on his LinkedIn profile. He remains active in government information through his coordination of the State Agency Databases project for the State and Local Documents Task Force of ALA GODORT. In addition to his role at Free Government Information, Daniel maintains a personal blog and a professional Facebook page. To learn about how Daniel became a librarian in the first place, visit his blog post for the Library Routes Project. When not blogging, Daniel enjoys photography, astronomy, space exploration and nearly all things science fiction. Many of these interests are featured on his Tumblr blog. Continue reading
New Site for U.S. Budget Information
GovBudget.com is a publication of The Federal Budget Group LLC, led by Charles S. Konigsberg, veteran budget and fiscal policy advisor to three U.S. Senators and three White House Budget Directors. We have designed GovBudget.com to provide you with a user-friendly web portal to the Federal Budget. We believe that every American should be able to access clear, accurate and nonpartisan information on how our government raises and spends nearly $3 trillion per year.
The information is not very detailed, but it is a quick, simple, easy to understand overview. See also: User-Friendly Federal Budget Web Site?, Government Technology, February 28, 2007 News Release
Continue readingWho Owns What C-Span Airs?
There have been a few stories recently about C-Span and whether or not its broadcasts are copyrighted. (See list at end of this post.) This started when Republicans claimed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi illegally posted C-Span video clips of House floor footage. Later, they withdrew that complaint after some clarification by C-Span of their policies. The clarifications led to more confusion, though. Now Nancy Scola has posted a very useful and clear article about the issue:
- Who Owns What C-Span Airs?, Nancy Scola, The OpenHouse Project, February 27th, 2007.
This kind of issue will undoubtedly continue to be important to the extent that privatization of government communication expands and private companies and politicians attempt to use "intellectual property" law to constrain access of public information to the public.
More:
- Congressional Video In Vogue, Tech Daily Dose, February 16, 2007.
- C-Span's IP Policies For Congress Called Inconsistent, by Andrew Noyes, National Journal's Technology Daily, Feb 16, 2007 PM edition, [subscription required]
- Which Videos Are Protected? Lawmakers Get a Lesson, by Noam Cohen, The New York Times, February 26, 2007.
- MetaVid (a project which seeks to capture, stream, archive and facilitate real-time collective [re]mediation of legislative proceedings.)
- Ripping (off) the Congressional video record by Carl Malamud.