CRS Report on Protection of Security-Related Information
Protection of Security-Related Information, September 27, 2006 (via FAS, 29 pages, PDF) Related postings on use of various designations for government documents to restrict public access
Category «Libraries»
LC Publishes New Country Profiles on Cuba, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia
Country Profile: Cuba, September 2006 Country Profile: Malaysia, September 2006 Country Profile, Saudi Arabia, September 2006
University Complutense of Madrid Joins Google Book Project
Press release: “Working together, Google and the University Complutense of Madrid will digitise the university’s hundreds of thousands of public domain works, so that anyone, at anytime will be able to view, browse, read, and even download the full texts from the library’s historic and special collections. The library of the Complutense University of Madrid …
EPA Headquarters Library Closes Effective October 1, 2006
Follow-up to previous postings, EPA Commenses Closure of Libraries Amid Protests and EPA Libraries And Unique E-Catalog Threatened by Budget Cutbacks, this September 21, 2006 rress release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is closing its Headquarters Library to the public, as well as its own staff, effective October 1. This shutdown is the latest in …
Maryland State Law Library Opens New Special Collections Room
Press release: “When the Maryland State Law Library opens its new Special Collections Room September 21, the long treasured and newly restored Audubon bird prints will have a new home. The expanded and enhanced room, which houses rare books, documents, and articles collected since the librarys founding in 1827, was built to preserve the rooms …
Survey of Consumer and Professional Medical/Health Reference Tools
From Diane Kovacs: Results of Core Consumer Medical/Health Reference Tools Survey, includes Print, Free Web-Sites, Govdocs Sites, and Fee-Based Websites. Results of Professional Professional/Research Medical/Health Core Reference Survey, includes Print, Free Web-Sites, Govdocs Sites, and Fee-Based Websites.
Transcripts of Supreme Court Oral Arguments Available Free Beginning In October
Supreme Court press release: “Beginning with the October 2006 Term, the Court will make the transcripts of oral arguments available free to the public on its Web site on the same day an argument is heard by the Court…The Court’s current contract reporting service, Alderson Reporting Company, will now utilize the services of a court …
Google Joins ALA and Bookstores to Promote Access to Banned Books
Inside Google Book Search Blog: “Starting today, you can visit http://www.google.com/bannedbooks to explore 42 banned or challenged books honored by the Radcliffe Publishing Course as among the Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century. You can see which of these novels have been targeted for banning, find out where you can buy or borrow them, …
Group Outlines Ramifications of EPA Library Closures
Follow-up to previous postings on EPA’s closure of libraries, this press release: “Prosecution of polluters by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “will be compromised” due to the loss of “timely, correct and accessible” information from the agency’s closure of its network of technical libraries, according to an internal memo released today by Public Employees for …
National Archives Issues Progress Report on Declassification Initiatives
National Archives Issues Progress Report on Declassification Initiatives: “The new NDI program will reduce redundancies in declassification review, will promote accurate and consistent declassification decisions, will improve equity recognition across the declassification community, develop centralized priorities and management controls around the priorities, and make the declassification process more transparent to the public.” Related postings on …
Kennedy Library Archivist Article on Efforts to Retrieve Missing Kennedy Documents
Reclaiming Pieces of Camelot – How NARA and the JFK Library Recovered Missing Kennedy Documents and Artifacts, by James M. Roth: “Among the more celebrated individuals suspected of misappropriating presidential and federal documents is Evelyn Lincoln, former secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Through the efforts of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library staff, the …
Registry of Digital Masters
CLIR: “A joint project of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and OCLC, the registry provides a trusted service for the communication, coordination, and discovery of information about digital masters, their production, and the availability of use copies. The registry includes both digitally reformatted and born-digital objects. Hosted by OCLC and developed on the basis of …
