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Daily Archives: January 11, 2007
Library of Congress Professional Guild Member Paper on Eliminating Series Authority Records and Series Title Control
Eliminating Series Authority Records and Series Title Control: Improving Efficiency or Creating Waste? Or, 12 Reasons Why the Library of Congress Should Reconsider Its SARs Decision, prepared for AFSCME 2910 by Gary M. Johnson, January 11, 2007. Continue Reading
Google Will Provide Free Real -Times Stock Quotes
Official Google Blog announced: “… the NYSE has moved the issue a great step forward with a proposal to the SEC which if approved, would allow you to see real-time, last-sale prices across all Google properties including Google Finance, Personalized Google, Mobile, and of course, Google.com. It won’t matter if you’re on Wall Street or… Continue Reading
2006 Privacy Year in Review
Top Ten Privacy Stories of 2006 and Ten Privacy Issues to Watch in 2007 from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Continue Reading
EPA OIG Report on Managing Contractor Systems and Reporting Incidents
EPA Could Improve Processes for Managing Contractor Systems and Reporting Incidents, 2007-P-00007 [Report PDF – 22 pages] [At a Glance PDF] January 11, 2007. Continue Reading
FDIC State Profiles – Banking and Economic Conditions
“Effective January 2007, FDIC State Profiles have been reformatted as a quarterly data sheet summation of banking and economic conditions in each state. To retrieve a state profile, select a state from either the map or list available on this page.” Continue Reading
CBO Issues Cost Estimate and Report on Effects of Federal Minimum Wage Act
H.R. 2, Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, January 11, 2007 – Cost estimate for the bill as passed by the House of Representatives on January 10, 2007 Response to a Request by Senator Grassley About the Effects of Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Versus Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, January 9, 2007 Continue Reading
FBI Investigating UCLA Data Breach
Press release: “The FBI in Los Angeles announced it opened an investigation to determine who hacked into a restricted database at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) that held the names and personal information of some 800,000 students, faculty, and alumni. Anyone who thought they had been further victimized as a result of… Continue Reading
Energy Market and Economic Impacts of a Proposal to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Intensity with a Cap and Trade System
Market and Economic Impacts of a Proposal to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Intensity with a Cap and Trade System, January 11, 2007 (90 pages, PDF) “This report was prepared by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), in response to a September 27, 2006, request from Senators Bingaman, Landrieu, Murkowski, Specter, Salazar, and Lugar. The Senators requested that… Continue Reading
HHS OIG Audits of Emergency Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Emergency Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Audit of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Award Process for a Contract With MDB, Inc. (A-04-06-01036), January 11, 2007. Emergency Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Audit of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Award Process for a Contract With Organization Development Systems, Inc. (A-04-06-01034), January 11,… Continue Reading
Postal Service 2006 Annual Progress Report Available Online
Follow-up to January 10, 2007 posting, U.S. Postal Service: ‘Intelligent Mail’ Fully Operational by 2009, see today’s press release: “The U.S. Postal Service has achieved remarkable results and is better prepared than ever to help ensure a prosperous future for mail, according to a progress report on the organization’s transformation efforts. The 2006 Annual Progress… Continue Reading
Lantos Introduces Bill to Preserve Family Records of Descendants of Slaves
Press release, January 11, 2007: “Congressman Tom Lantos (D-San Mateo, San Francisco) today introduced legislation to ensure that many of the genealogical records involving the families of former slaves in this country will be preserved, digitized and catalogued…Unlike most Americans, researching African-Americans family histories from the 19th Century has been hampered by the lack of… Continue Reading
