The GPO announced that its plan, the Future Digital System (FDsys), to digitize most government documents beginning with the Federal Papers, should be completed by summer 2007.
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Daily Archives: October 6, 2005
Delaware Supreme Decision Upholds Anonymity of Blogger
Key Ruling Backs Blog and Web Rights Delware Supreme Court, John Doe No. 1 v. Cahill et. al., October 5, 2005 (33 pages, PDF) Related links: Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents Updates to Recent White Paper on Blogging Anonymously Continue Reading
Bill Requires Gov’t Issued ID to Vote in Federal Elections
H.R. 3910 – To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require individuals to present a government-issued photo identification as a condition of voting in elections for Federal office, to prohibit any individual from tabulating votes in an election for Federal office unless the individual has been subject to a criminal background check,… Continue Reading
Web Guides Provide Links to Documents Pertaining to Harriet Miers
From the University of Michigan Law Library, Information on Harriet Miers, Nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court. This page was created with the collaborative effort of Kincaid C. Brown, Barbara H. Garavaglia, Aimee S. Mangan and Jennifer Selby. SMU Underwood Law Library: Published Writings of Harriet E. Miers, Nominee for Justice of the U.… Continue Reading
Compilation of State Legislative History Guides on the Web
State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web, Compiled by Jennifer Bryan, Documents Librarian, Indiana University School of Law Library Bloomington [The E-LawLibrary Weblog] Continue Reading
Business Groups Support Reforms to Sections of Patriot Act
From the ALA Office of Government Relations today: “Six important business organizations (including the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and The Financial Services Roundtable) wrote to Senator Specter expressing “support for reforms to Sections 215 and 505 of the Patriot Act which allow the federal government to require voluminous and… Continue Reading
Documenting Copyright for Digital Materials
Descriptive metadata for copyright Status, by Karen Coyl: “The need to express the intellectual property rights of digital materials has focused on access and usage permissions which must be granted by the rights holder. A key set of permissions not acknowledged by these rights expressions is inherent in the legal copyright status of the item.… Continue Reading
Kurt Vonnegut Salutes Librarians’ Role in Protecting Civil Liberties
An interview with Kurt Vonnegut in the October 6 USA Today, includes the following quote: “Music…cheers him, as do people who behave decently. Librarians too – “not famous for their physical strength” – who resist having books removed from shelves and refuse to give names to people who have checked out certain books in the… Continue Reading
Guide to Recognizing Web Fraud
“Kath Straub, Ph.D., CUA, Chief Scientist, looks at recent research on how people detect, and often miss, Web site fraud..” Fine-tuning your Internet deception detectors is a brief, straight forward, practical guide to “how Internet deception works.” Continue Reading
