“The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on July 30-31, 2013. The minutes for each regularly scheduled meeting of the Committee ordinarily are made available three weeks after the day of the policy decision and subsequently are published in the Board’s… Continue Reading
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Search simultaneously in the DPLA and Europeana
“The Search DPLA and Europeana app lets users do side-by-side searches of Europeana and the DPLA, providing quick and easy access to both libraries’ vast resources. By default, users are shown each object’s title, author, format, date, and link, along with a thumbnail; additional metadata about each object is available by clicking a drop-down arrow.”… Continue Reading
New Infographic: Good News in Fair Use for Libraries
“A new infographic released today tells the story of library fair use and the Code of Best Practices in a clear and compelling way. There’s an embeddable PNG for your own blogs, and there’s also a print-ready 8.5” x 11” version in case you need hardcopies to hand out at events.” Continue Reading
CFPB Examiners Find Mortgage Servicing Problems At Banks And Nonbanks
“Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a report detailing mortgage servicing problems at banks and nonbanks. The report also found that many nonbanks lack robust systems for ensuring they are following federal laws. “Our examinations of banks and nonbanks allow us to correct problems before more consumers are affected,” said CFPB Director Richard… Continue Reading
Additional Declassified Documents Relating to Section 702 of FISA
“Created at the direction of the President of the United States, IC ON THE RECORD provides immediate, ongoing and direct access to factual information related to the lawful foreign surveillance activities carried out by the U.S. Intelligence Community.” Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Next Generation Jammer, Wildland Fire Management
Next Generation Jammer – DOD Should Continue to Assess Potential Duplication and Overlap As Program Moves Forward, GAO-13-642, Aug 20, 2013 Wildland Fire Management – Improvements Needed in Information, Collaboration, and Planning to Enhance Federal Fire Aviation Program Success, GAO-13-684, Aug 20, 2013 Continue Reading
If We Share Data, Will Anyone Use Them?
Wallis JC, Rolando E, Borgman CL (2013) If We Share Data, Will Anyone Use Them? Data Sharing and Reuse in the Long Tail of Science and Technology. PLoS ONE 8(7): e67332. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067332 “Research on practices to share and reuse data will inform the design of infrastructure to support data collection, management, and discovery in the… Continue Reading
Mortgage insurance: market structure, underwriting cycle and policy implications
“This [Joint Forum] report on Mortgage insurance: market structure, underwriting cycle and policy implications examines the interaction of mortgage insurers with mortgage originators and underwriters. It makes the following set of recommendations directed at policymakers and supervisors which aim at reducing the likelihood of mortgage insurance stress and failure in such tail events: Policymakers should… Continue Reading
2011–12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study
“This First Look publication provides the first results of the 2011–12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12): Student Financial Aid Estimates for 2011–12. August 20, 2013 (NPSAS:12), the most comprehensive, nationally representative survey of student financing of postsecondary education in the United States. The survey includes about 95,000 undergraduate and 16,000 graduate students attending 1,500 postsecondary… Continue Reading
How Qualified Student Loans Could Protect Borrowers and Taxpayers
How Qualified Student Loans Could Protect Borrowers and Taxpayers. Joe Valenti and David A. Bergeron | August 20, 2013. “Over the past few decades, student-loan debt has grown dramatically and now exceeds $1 trillion, including more than $150 billion in private student loans. Since the late 1970s, however, Congress has gradually made it increasingly difficult… Continue Reading
FTC Chairwoman Calls for Transparency in Big Data
Via EPIC: “In a keynote speech at the Technology Policy Institute Aspen Forum, FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez called upon companies to “move their data collection and use practices out of the shadow and into the sunlight.” Chairwoman Ramirez highlighted the risks of big data including indiscriminate collection, data breaches, and behind-the-scenes profiling. She stressed the… Continue Reading
Survey of Special Collections and Archives in UK and Ireland
Dooley, Jackie M., Rachel Beckett, Alison Cullingford, Katie Sambrook, Chris Shepard, and Sue Worrall (2013), Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research. “This report provides institutional leaders, curators, special collections staff, and archivists both evidence and inspiration to plan for much needed and deserved transformation of… Continue Reading
