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Monthly Archives: September 2016

GAO – OPM Needs to Improve Management and Oversight of Hiring Authorities

Federal Hiring: OPM Needs to Improve Management and Oversight of Hiring Authorities, GAO-16-521: Published: Aug 2, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 1, 2016. “A hiring authority is the law, executive order, or regulation that allows an agency to hire a person into the federal civil service. Of the 105 hiring authorities used in fiscal year 2014,… Continue Reading

ACRL – Keeping Up With Cybersecurity, Usability, and Privacy

Snipped – via Bohyun Kim. Associate Director, Library Applications and Knowledge Systems, at the University of Maryland-Baltimore, Health Sciences and Human Services Library – Keeping Up With Cybersecurity, Usability, and Privacy What is Cybersecurity? Cybersecurity is a broad term. It refers to the activities, practices, and technology that keep computers, networks, programs, and data secure… Continue Reading

CA Digital Library – New Platform for Declassified Documents Reference System

California Digital Library: “The U.S. Declassified Documents can now be cross-searched with the other archive resources on the Artemis platform.  You can filter search results by document type, classification level, publication year and by other categories.  Results can be analysed using the built-in Term Frequency and Term Clusters tools. U.S. Declassified Documents Online provides access… Continue Reading