IRS Package X Soon to Be Obsolete
IRS Package X Soon to Be Obsolete. WebCPA, June 2, 2005.
Continue reading"To reduce the $1.8 million in printing and mailing costs associated with Package X and to support the agency's transition to electronic media and communications, the IRS said that Package X will become obsolete in the summer of 2005....
"Individual tax products are available online at http://www.irs.gov and from other commercial and government sources. Publication 1796, IRS Tax Products (a CD-ROM equivalent to Package X) is sold by both the Superintendent of Documents under the Government Printing Office and the National Technical Information System under the U .S. Department of Commerce."
Chronology of Disappearing Government Information, 1998-2002
This document was compiled by Barbara Miller for ALA/GODORT Education Committee With special assistance of Karrie Peterson and includes data collected through May 8, 2002. Chronology of Disappearing Government Information (May 8, 2002), Compiled by Barbara Miller for ALA/GODORT Education Committee With special assistance of Karrie Peterson. [UPDATE May 7, 2015: I’ve upload a copy […]
GPO’s Preliminary Requirements (RD) docs now available
I've posted several new GPO documents to the FGI Library. These documents are regarding GPO's Future Digital System (FDSys). GPO is moving quickly into the next phase of the FDSys, so we need to move quickly as well in order to provide comments, questions, evaluation on the system and its effects on the FDLP, libraries, access to and preservation of govt information (both positive and negative). I'm sure GPO will welcome all comments in order to make the future digital system a robust, easy-to-use, free system. The Government Information Technology Committee (GITCO) has invited Mike Wash, Chief Technical Officer and Co-director of the Office of Innovation and New Technology, to their meeting at ALA Annual Conference on Sunday June 26, 2005 from 02:00 pm - 05:30 pm in the Hyatt Hotel's Grand Ballroom E. This is an open meeting, and I would encourage everyone to go. If you're unable to attend (and even if you *are* able to attend), please post to FGI any questions that you might have for Mr. Wash about the future digital system. Continue reading
Map and Geographic Information Collections in Transition Powerpoint Available
Thanks to the Cartographic User Advisory Council for making the PowerPoint presentations of the
Map and Geographic Information Collections in Transition a conference organized by the Cartographic Users Advisory Council, Mumford Room, Library of Congress; May 12-13, 2005available on their web site barely two weeks after their conference closed. If you have any thoughts on the PowerPoint presentations, or were an attendee and wish to share your impressions, please use the comments link below. Continue reading
Not a “myth” — an unanswered question
June 1, 2005 / Leave a comment
One of the major concerns I have about the future of free access to fully-functional digital government information is that GPO's strategic planning document and the documents outlining its future digital system raise many questions which GPO has not addressed. These include questions about user privacy, long-term funding, use of digital rights management technologies, and deposit of digital files with depository libraries. One major underlying problem that GPO has not addressed is that its Strategic Vision document has conflicting missions: to provide "free and ready public access" to electronic documents and to distribute electronic documents "on a cost recovery basis." How can GPO provide electronic documents for free and for fee at the same time? I was encouraged for a moment when I saw it was addressing this very issue in its handout, FDLP Myths and Monsters (included in the April/May Admin Notes). The very last item in this list is: Continue reading →
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