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AmericanPresident.org is hosted by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, “the nations leading research institute for the study of the American presidency.” The site provides documentation, bios, and links to resources on: Domestic Policy, Economic Policy, Legislative Affairs, National Security, Presidential Politics, Administration of the Government, and Administration of the …
The Wall Street Journal posted, free to non-subscribers, the PDF text (49 pages) of a controversial DoD memo, stamped DRAFT, and titled Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations in the Global War on Terrorism: Assessment of Legal, Historical, Policy, and Operational Considerations, 6 March 2003. From Newsweek, this link to an article, “A Defense Dept. …
File Sharing: Selected Universities Report Taking Action to Reduce Copyright Infringement. GAO-04-503, May 28. Highlights. “All of the officials interviewed indicated that their colleges or universities routinely monitor their networks, and most of them indicated that the institutions also actively monitor their networks specifically for the use of these file-sharing applications. When infringing use is …
Extreme Searching & Other Goodies, presentation at SLA Conference today by Gary Price.
Commission head calls for more security for electronic voting Deja Vu At The Florida Polls? Scrubbing felons from voters rolls raises fresh concerns Feds want e-voting source code disclosed
From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, this news of a 2nd Circuit decision (33 pages, PDF) released on June 8, that in part concluded: “We hold that the public and press enjoy a qualified First Amendment right of access to docket sheets. We also hold that the defendant court administrators have the …
From this EFF press release: “California Assembly Member Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) is sponsoring Assembly Bill 1143, the Internet Communications Protection Act (ICPA). The bill protects anonymous speakers on the Internet by requiring service providers to notify them before handing over personal information that’s been subpoenaed. This information could include addresses, phone numbers, and any …
The June 2004 issue of The American Lawyer includes an AmLaw Tech Library Survey: Books, Bytes and Budgets. Subtitled, “Caught between paper and PCs, librarians struggle to speed services and corral costs.”
From Eyebeam R&D (the group that brought you FundRace 2004), this plain vanilla but nevertheless very useful chart of links to statistical information from dozens of government, foundation, commercial and academic websites. Resources range from reports on crime and terrorism to law firm rankings, CEO compensation and national election studies.
Law firm CIO David Erwin discusses his firm’s successful implementation of an online helpdesk application.
From the National Transportation Library, this link to search the digital collection by key words or browse by topic. In addition, this link to the Transportation Libraries Catalog (TransCat), the “OCLC catalog of transportation-related books and other materials held in government, university and other transportation libraries.” [Managing Information]
On FOIA Front, More Agencies Contract Out: Private Firms Have Growing Role in Handling Backlogs of Requests for Government Records Related reference: see the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, which “works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight.”