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Old-school recordkeeping meets the Digital Age
Web Security Words Help Digitize Old Books
Member states drag feet on European digital library
Library Partnership Preserves End-of-Term Government Web Sites
Reclamation Jettisoning Environmental Functions — Lame Duck Reorganization Cutting Green Jobs to Promote Outsourcing
Spy fear over e-mail check plan
F.B.I. Says It Obtained Reporters’ Phone Records
Judge Says F.B.I. Can Examine Library Computers That Scientist Used Last Month
EPA Library Restoration Pact Finalized
International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation
Some Web Firms Say They Track Behavior Without Explicit Consent
Senate Report Scrutinizes the State Secrets Privilege
Call on the Senate to Make Campaign Contribution Info Available Online Before the Election
Take Action Now! Support Funding for the Law Library of Congress
China lifts ban on Tiananmen sites
House committee seeks out Web tracking information
FCC slaps cable giant
Durbin Says Internet Giants Close to Agreement on Code of Conduct
Bills to Reign in Controlled Unclassified Information Fly through House
House Launches Personal Financial Disclosure Database
Senate Bill Would Bar Secret Changes to Executive Orders
If You Run a Red Light, Will Everyone Know?
Beijing Olympics: Government U-turn ends ban on human rights websites
Can Congress tweet? Should bloggers care?
The Internet can do what now?
Presidential library bill stalls again
IOC to let China block websites
Coburn gets best of Reid on 'omnibus' package
Magistrate Judge Affirms Recommendation that Court Order White House to Preserve E-mails on Workstations and Portable Media
Why Is It So Hard to Get Documents from the National Archives About the National Archives?
Key Internet Censorship Law Struck Down Yet Again
Open the Doors to Congress
Bill would ban kids from Facebook, MySpace in libraries
EPA and Union Agree on Process for Reopening Libraries
Bill Would End FOIA Shield for Smithsonian
New GPO White Paper Digital Preservation at the U.S. Government Printing Office
"In their own words": political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology
News by Agency
Controlled Unclassified Info May Be Classified, US-Czech Doc Says
Foreign Relations Series Still Fails to Meet Legal Deadline
Foreign donations suspended, Bush library says
Public has right to see most government e-mails, but what if they get erased first?
Library of Congress: Laws Need Revision to Encourage Digital Preservation
Viacom agrees to YouTube privacy deal
National Archives, Library of Congress Form World Digital Library Partnership
Appeal of Vice-President Visitor Logs Lawsuit Dismissed
Legislative Databases recommendation makes it to House Leg Branch Appropriations markup
Database of every phone call and email 'a step too far'
Sir Cliff Richard pins hopes on law that will keep cash rolling in until he’s 113
Report Finds Gaps in Federal E-Mail Records - GAO Says Agencies Are Inconsistent in Preserving Electronic Documents
Microsoft, Google back broad privacy legislation
White House Threatens to Veto Bill to Modernize Presidential Records Act
Senate Approves Bill to Broaden Wiretap Powers
FOIA Backlog Down, But Agencies Missed Opportunity for Major Breakthrough
Census receives $210 million in emergency funding for 2010 count
A Look Back at Canarsie, Clouded by Copyright Woes
Google must divulge YouTube log
Senate Joins House in Caving to White House Immunity Demands
White House Threatens To Veto House E-Mail Storage Bill
SLA Details Concerns with EPA Library Reopenings
SLA Expresses Concern with GAO and Thomson West Agreement
NIH Expresses Appreciation of SLA Support
White House Office of Administration Ordered to Preserve E-Mails
11th Circuit Sides with National Geographic in Copyright Case
Senate Housing Bill Allows Government to Spy on Internet Commerce
In Lawsuit, University Asserts That Downloading Copyrighted Texts Is Fair Use
GAO Releases 10 DVDs of Federal Legislative Histories to Public.Resource.org
What We’ve Learned So Far - Review of Existing Resources
PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians & Information Technology
U.S. Copyright Renewal Records Available for Download
Google Joins the "Internet for Everyone" Initiative
The Department of Forgetting
Agencies get pushy with Web 2.0
Public Records: An easy fix
Senate nixes emergency census funding
Web Sites Push For More Transparency and Accessibility In Government
Secrecy News Purged from State Dept History Mailing List
Open letter from Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archives, June 21, 2008
Google says it would support U.S. privacy law
How the U.S. got its Canadian copyright bill
Ottawa gets tough with illegal downloaders
White House May Keep Documents in E-Mail Flap Private, Judge Rules
House passes new surveillance law
Sweden approves wiretapping law
Oregon decides not to enforce any copyright claims on the Oregon Revised Statutes
Cost of Secrecy System Reaches Record High
National Treasure Expands: National Archives to Include Earth Imagery
Oregon Revised Statutes - Copyright Hearing Update
Saddam Hussein’s papers, along with controversy, find a temporary home with the Hoover Institution
EFF Speaks Out Against Telecom Immunity Deal
Sprehe: Keeping it digital
SLA Requests More Information on Sandia Research Library
EPA Provides SLA with Response to PEER News Release on Chemical Library
EPA and Recent Press Coverage: What’s Going On with Space Allocation for the Reopening Libraries?
Reducing Controls on Unclassified Information
House Hearing on the Improving Public Access to Documents Act of 2008 (H.R. 6193)
Secret Spy Court Repeatedly Questions FBI Wiretap Network
CREW Responds to Court Ruling that White House Office of Administration is Not an Agency
In Canada - New legislation to crack down on digital copyright infringement
EU Digital Libraries Initiative: Agreement between Cultural Institutions and Right Holders on Orphan Works
EPA Partner Blog for the National Dialogue
Ombudsman warns that citizens' right of access to documents is at risk
SLA Provides Comments on NIH Public Access Policy
What are You Doing for the Next Eight Years?
Dead hands keep a closed book
Discovering the Undiscovered Public Domain
Obama and Coburn Introduce Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008
Executive Office of the President: Expanding E-Government - Achieving Results for the American People, May 2008
Pentagon Posts Documents on its "Military Analysts" Propaganda Program
National Archives reticent about broadening mission
Bell Canada sued for throttling internet speeds
Australian Library to go digital with $10m handout
Iraq's Ancient Tablets to Get New, Virtual Life
USDA Dropping Shroud over Pesticide Use Data
FEC Launches Enhanced Presidential Campaign Finance Map
Preserving State Government Digital Information
Belgian newspapers ask Google for $77.5 million in damages
Net neutrality bill hits House of Commons
US Judge: Wait your turn for Clinton phone records
Access to contractor misconduct database restricted in Senate bill
UK MPs concerned over census confidentiality
Department of Justice Issues New Annual FOIA Report Guidance
MetroFi shutting down WiFi service in Bay Area cities
Maine firm tapped to help scuttle presidential library
Closed EPA Libraries to Return in Lavatory-Sized Spaces — Political Appointee Asserts Control over All Libraries, Repeals 30-Year-Old Manual
EFF Blasts New 'Compromise' Offer on Telco Immunity
From the UK - An Inspired debate on access
The "Big Scrape": This Time, You're on Your Own
Archivist of the United States Establishes "Controlled Unclassified Information Office"
California Senate Fiscal Committee Approves Library Bond Bill - Sends SB 1516 Forward to the Senate Floor
Searching for the Possible in the Orphan Works Debate
Senators grill tech companies on aiding Chinese censorship
Iran launches fresh crackdown on websites: report
UK Government plans to store comms data
Google hands over user information in India
National Archives Announces Digitizing Agreement with The Generations Network
Opinion Piece by Larry Lessig: Little Orphan Artworks
CDT: Global Internet Freedom Should Be Top Human Rights and Foreign Policy Priority
At SMU commencement, archivist says Bush library will be asset to university
Meredith Fuchs: The White House: Off Limits to Historians?
Ombudsman launches EU-wide consultation on access to databases
EarthLink to pull the plug on Wi-Fi in Philadelphia
FBI Misuse of National Security Letters Legislation Action to Correct
How a Lawsuit Over Electronic Reserves Could Affect Colleges
Letter Opposes NAL FY2009 Funding Decrease
New GAO Report: Challenges in Implementing an Electronic Records Archive
Electronic and Classified Records are Overwhelming the National Archives, According to Senate Testimony by Archive Director
Ensuring long-term preservation and usability of digital information
From Australia - Exhibition axed after police visit
Senators Ask FBI to Explain Flawed 'National Security Letter' to Internet Archive
Release the Orphan Works!
National Archives and Records Administration Strategy for Digitizing Archival Materials for Public Access, 2007-2016
From the UK - Victory in the High Court over details of MPs' expenses
Foreign Gifts Database on LegiStorm
Information That Doesn’t Come Freely
White House Issues Policy on “Controlled Unclassified Info”
New CRS Report: The Congressional Research Service and the American Legislative Process (RL33471) (Updated March 19, 2008)
Eyes Only: [redacted] - Washington Post Profile of the National Security Archive
Publisher Drops Book Ban Lawsuit Against Mass. Prisons
National Archives Creates Plan for Online Access to Founding Fathers Papers
Harvard Law faculty votes for 'open access' to scholarly articles
FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF Challenge
Oppose FY 2009 Budget Cuts to the US National Agricultural Library
China Refuses to Guarantee Open Internet During Olympics
In Canada - Concern grows as copyright law debate heats up
Democrats revive another Net neutrality proposal
Archive Featured in Fox News Expose on FBI Files
White House Backups are Incomplete, May Not Contain Some Missing E-mails; Court Filing Says White House Cannot Identify Hard Drives in Use When E-mails Were Lost
In Canada - Tories kill access to information database
Should There be a Freedom of Information Act for the EU?
Presenting the 2007 OMB Watch Annual Report
Court Tells Travelers: Leave the Laptop Behind or Risk a Search
Oppose “dark archive” in Orphan Works (H.R. 5889)
Iranian culture minister urges authors to censor own works
In the UK - Anti-terror threat to librarian role
FISA Orders Up, Government Reporting on National Security Letters Begins
Report backs PDF variant for long-term archiving
Old Bailey puts criminal cases online
A Precious Resource At Risk
NBII appropriations needs your support
Liberate and disseminate - Free information freely available is the rallying cry of Erik Ringmar, who wants others to join in putting restricted documents on the web
Groups Praise Orphan Works Legislation Introduced In Senate and House
Court Sets Deadline for White House Answers on Missing E-mail
Hearings on H.R. 5811, the "Electronic Communications Preservation Act"
Some Libraries Shun Google in Book Battle
Publisher sues Mass. prisons chief over book ban
Science 2.0 -- Is Open Access Science the Future?
Microsoft unveils e-government platform
Agencies not complying with record preservation policies
Hundreds of EPA Scientists Report Political Interference Over Last Five Years
Oregon claims state law copyrighted
AALL and Others Urge Public Comment on Guidance for Sensitive But Unclassified Information
Secrecy in case of financier in dispute; Cunningham figure's plea deal was sealed
National Archives and Records Administration Web Harvest Background Information
NARA and the web harvest: a discussion of the issues
A costly 2008 Domesday Book
GAO *did* sell exclusive access to legislative history to Thomson West
New CREW Report Finds Federal Government Electronic Record Keeping Practices Abysmal
Record-Keeping Bill Is Criticized As 'Anemic' by Watchdog Group
Dingell examining closure of Hopkins health database
Ruling on Preservation of White House E-Mails Awaited; New Law Proposed to Address Destruction of Electronic Records
Stage Set for Transfer of CIA Records to National Archives
White House Gains Influence in Toxic Chemical Assessments
Iraqi Perspectives Report now available online
GAO assesses FOIA progress
EPA Seeks Comments: Help Improve Access to Environmental Information
EFF Report: FBI Slowed Terror Investigation with Improper NSL Request
Curators of Bush Library at SMU can learn from history of LBJ museum
The Halfway House Between Science and Secrets
FOIA survey: FDA's slow response means stories go unpublished
Agency under fire for decision not to save federal Web content
Oregon: our laws are copyrighted and you can't publish them
Quite a LegiStorm
Et Tu, YouTube? Lawmakers to Get Their Very Own Sites for Videos
Librarian helps restore some of Iraq's civilization
State Secrets Claim Should Not Bury Important Surveillance Lawsuit
Public asked to shape open-government bill - Foundation posts proposed bill online for public to tweak, bypassing lobbyists
FBI Data Transfers Via Telecoms Questioned
NZ Copyright laws updated for digital world
Balance in copyright law demanded by British Library
Follow Up Statement Regarding POPLINE Database
Google Launches New C-SPAN Channel on YouTube
International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) Archive Must be Open to All
C-SPAN Analysis: What Are We Missing?
The National Archives Is Quietly Destroying Millions of Documents
Statement Regarding POPLINE Database
Hysteria over personal financial disclosures
Senator pushes alternative to full CRS report access
Google, Yahoo Keep User Data Too Long, EU Group Says
EFF Wins Another Speedy Release of Telecom Lobbying Records
Declaration to Advance the Right of Access to Public Information Worldwide Released
Aides’ private info exposed
Yahoo fund aids 'cyber dissidents' in China
Colorado Booksellers' Efforts Result in Defeat of Censorship Bill
The OLC Torture Memo as a Failure of the Classification System
Political Interference in Scientific Database POPLINE
Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'
Internet Archive Brings Free Ultra High-Speed Internet to Public Housing
Most Chinese Say They Approve of Government Internet Control
Open-government advocate calls Ohio Supreme Court records panel unconstitutional
Section 108 Final Report Released
EPA to Re-Open Libraries by Fall - But They Won't Be the Same
GPO: Authenticated Public and Private Laws
Marine Corps Will Restore Online Access to Public Documents
Sexual content law irks booksellers
EPA Officials Brief SLA on Plans to Reestablish Closed Libraries by September 2008
Germany's Top Court Curtails Disputed Data Storage Law
Syria tightens Internet monitoring, jails bloggers
China 'unblocks' BBC News site
Google in trouble over data security
Film Maker and PK Submit Testimony on Orphan Works
New Congressional Research Service Report on the Homeland Security Council
Russia Weighs Restrictions on Internet
Google shareholders to vote on censorship, human rights
Footnote.com and the National Archives Launch an Interactive Vietnam War Memorial
From the UK - Online campaigns to publish bills
Yet another digitization contract limits free access to public records
Cuba blocks access to top Cuban blog
Follow the Oil Money
EPA may have lost data in hasty library closures
CPSC Continues Community Outreach and Education
From Red Light to Green Light: Copyright Issues in Digitizing Photographs in Library Collections
Washington Lets In More Sunshine, But Halls of Power Are Still Too Dark
Did the US gov't sell exclusive access to its legislative history to Thomson West?
Library Legislative Day 2008 Update
FOI in Practice: Analysis of the Mexican FOI System - Measuring the Complexity of Information Requests and Quality of Government Responses in Mexico
A Push to Limit the Tracking of Web Surfers’ Clicks
Candidates' Passport Files Breached
EFF Urges Court to Rule National Security Letters Unconstitutional
Citizen Satisfaction with E-Government Falls to Lowest in Three Years
Groups across Political Spectrum Tell Congress to Include Federal Scientists in Pending Whistleblower Bill
Mr. Lessig Comes to Washington
EPA Wants Documents From Lawmakers
In Maryland: New Online Database - Sun Report
White House: Computer Hard Drives Tossed
National Archives Opens Historic CIA Cold War Era Records
DoD Report on Captured Iraqi Documents
Bush Hits the Delete Button - Public information the administration doesn’t want you to see
Can we identify or verify or prevent government website scrubbing?
White House Scrubs Web Site on the Economy
Clinton’s White House Schedules Are Released
FEMA Charges Newspaper $210,000 for Public Records
AP President and CEO Tom Curley Calls on News Media to Step Up and Fight for Openness in Government
Sen. Landrieu Speaks Out Against FEMA Information Delays
New OMB Watch Report Unveils Top Five Open Government Questions for Candidates
Treasury Wins 2008 "Rosemary Award" as Worst FOIA Agency
Court orders White House to show cause why it should not create forensic copies of all electronic media; court seeks means to protect missing e-mails in response to Archive lawsuit
Did the US gov't sell exclusive access to its legislative history to Thomson West?
Mixed Signals, Mixed Results: How President Bush's Executive Order on FOIA Failed to Deliver
State Governments Resist 'Sunshine Laws'
US Library of Congress Puts Knowledge on the Web
DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Report on FBI’s Use of National Security Letters
F.E. Warren Air Force Base closes library
More People See Federal Government as Secretive; Nearly All Want to Know Where Candidates Stand on Transparency
Clinton Tells Sunshine Week She's "Committed to Restoring Open Government"
Freedom of information: a comparative legal survey; second edition revised and updated
Leahy, Cornyn Introduce New OPEN FOIA Bill On Eve Of Sunshine Week
Congressional Hearing on EPA Library Closures
Pentagon Report on Saddam's Iraq Censored?
Is it possible for geeks to fix the United Nations?
NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data
EPA Needs to Ensure That Best Practices and Procedures Are Followed When Making Further Changes to Its Library Network
Report: FBI abuse of investigative tool continued in 2006
Agencies run more than a decade late on Freedom of Information requests
Freedom of Information: Sunshine in the digital age
Presidential Signing Statements 1929-2008
PACER Recycling at Public.resource.org
The President's Lawyers - Those who interpret the law for the administration should be more accountable for their decisions
ALA President-elect Jim Rettig to testify before Congress on EPA libraries
Rulings on judge complaints to be public
Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
Over at the SuperDelegate Transparency Project . . .
The Reimer Digital Library is Back
Clinton-papers release blocked
From the UK - Councils struggling with e-archives
Judicial Watch to get Clinton’s White House schedules, not phone logs
FY 2007 Report to Congress on Implementation of the E-Government Act of 2002
Bank Julius Baer drops Wikileaks suit that prompted free speech protests
FBI chief says report will show another year of privacy abuses
Presidential libraries have historical problem
A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
Judge Backtracks: WikiLeaks Resumes U.S. Operations
National Archives Makes Some Passenger Arrival Records Available Online
What the Candidates Are Saying About Open Government and Freedom of Information Issues
Bush undecided on disclosure policy for SMU library donors
GOP Halts Effort to Retrieve White House E-Mails
N.Y. attorney general subpoenas Comcast on traffic throttling
Yahoo sued by Chinese dissidents again
Lieberman Calls For Wider, Easier, Timely Access To CRS Reports
EPA Library Closures Hampering Agency Work, Arbitrator Finds - EPA Guilty of Bad Faith and Unfair Labor Practice in Shutting Agency Libraries
Congress worries that .gov monitoring will spy on Americans
Report: NARA doubted White House e-mail archives in 2004
Utah Internet providers could earn 'G-rating'
EFF, ACLU Move to Intervene in Wikileaks Case
Is Your Printer Spying On You?
C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle
Global E-Government Survey 2008
White House Ignored Repeated Warnings That E-mails Were at Risk
YouTube lost for many as Pakistan attempts to block local access
Will The FCC Save The Internet?
TRLN Member Libraries Join Open Content Alliance
Office of Strategic Initiatives Strategic Plan 2008-2013
Committee Holds Hearing on Electronic Records Preservation at the White House
SMU to Host Bush's Presidential Library
House Rules Offers Updates
Toxic Release Inventory data available for 2006
U.S. Economic Indicators Web Site to Continue
Democrats Seek to Narrow Secrets Law
F.B.I. Gained Unauthorized Access to E-Mail
CDC Watering Down Great Lakes Report on Toxics
OMB Reports $508 Million in E-Gov Savings; Congress Remains Doubtful
Army Says It Will Restore Public Access to Online Library
Public Attitudes Toward Government Accountability and Transparency 2008
Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper
Congress Considers New Net Neutrality Bill
Colorado "Harmful to Minors" Bill Approved by Senate Judiciary Committee
EU states urged to adopt tougher copyright protection rules
Looking at candidates' records on open government
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Wiretap Case
Association of Research Libraries Guide to NIH Public Access Policy Now Online
Canadian authors to be paid for libraries lending books
Progress but no decision on non-English domain names
Web Site That Posts Leaked Material Ordered Shut
Australia set to give the go-ahead for Creative Commons licensing
£8m boost for nuclear archive
EU Commissioner Backs Copyright Term Extension
Office of the United States Trade Representative: 2007 Annual FOIA Report
Superdelegate Transparency Project Wiki
Net neutrality bill introduced in House
In Canada, Business coalition opposes harsh copyright reform
Administration shuts down "best-of-web" economicindicators.gov
Taxpayers for Common Sense Releases New Earmark Database
GPO and Depository Libraries Partner to Offer Online Reference Assistance
Army Blocks Public Access to Digital Library
State of Connecticut Puts Criminal Convictions Online
Harvard Opts In to ‘Opt Out’ Plan
1.8 Million Pages of U.S. Case Law Available Now for Developers - No Restrictions on Reuse
At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web
Big Money for digitization projects one big step forward
Dissident Chinese professor to sue Yahoo! and Google for erasing his name
China's National Library cuts service fees
EU acts to remove Web barriers for disabled
Central Intelligence Agency Freedom of Information Act Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2007, Unclassified
Leahy: Founding Fathers’ Papers Should Be Put Online
Great Lakes: Danger Zones?
Transparency up North
Attacks on the Press in 2007
The next president should open up the Bush Administration's record
Bits Debate: Copyright for January 2008
One Dollar In, More than Three Out! New Study Asserts the Economic Value of the San Francisco Public Library System
The 51st State: The State of Online
Bush eliminates FOIA ombudsman
Abracadabra! Bush Makes Privacy Board Vanish
Groups Submit Paper Opposing Higher Copyright Damages
Archives challenges Clinton papers case
CREW Asks AG Mukasey To Appoint Special Counsel To Investigate Disappearance Of Millions Of White House Emails
GPO Authenticates Federal Budget by Digital Signature
Libraries nationwide to benefit from President Bush's proposed budget
Election-Education Efforts Lag in Lead-Up to Super Tuesday
EPA the Web 2.0 way
Active Legislation List Produced by US Senate
President Asks for Agency Views on Declassification
Expert says digital preservation inevitable in 21st century
askSam Provides State of the Union Address in Searchable Database
UN Treaty database freely available
Writers' digital row with library
GPO’s Seal of Authenticity
Alumnus Sues Cornell Over Article Newly Surfaced in Digital Archive
OMB, GAO to Go Digital on Key Reports
Agencies Share Information By Taking a Page From Wikipedia
Greater Use of Privilege Spurs Concern
Disputed Iraqi Archives Find a Home at the Hoover Institution
CREW Analysis of National News at the Time the White House E-Mail Went Missing
Google To Become Open Source Science Repository
Publishers Announce Agreements with Universities on New Copyright Guidelines for Course Content in Digital Formats
Pressure Grows to Limit the State Secrets Privilege
Lawmakers Favor Outside Access To Legislative Data
Leahy and Cornyn oppose White House moving FOIA ombudsman
ERC Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access
EPA Libraries Receive Funding, SLA Receives Clarification pn EPA Plan to Restore Libraries
Annual FOIA Reports Submitted by Federal Departments and Agencies
White House Study Found 473 Days of E-Mail Gone
Study Will Examine Benefits of Free Access to Computers in Public Libraries
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Announcing "My OpenCongress": Network, Comment and Vote on Congress
EPA's move to 'modernize' libraries spurs concerns
Pentagon Tackles Controls on Unclassified Information
Supreme Court Declines To Hear Orphan Works Case
Nature makes genome chain officially free
My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven
White House Admits No Back-Up Tapes for E-mail Before October 2003
Global E-Government Survey 2008: From E-Government to Connected Governance
Keeping Government Secrets: A Pocket Guide for Judges on the State-Secrets Privilege, the Classified Information Procedures Act, and Court Security Officers
Publishers Say Enactment of NIH Mandate on Journal Articles Undermines Intellectual Property Rights Essential to Science Publishing
Scientists oppose move to restrict satellite data
The State Secrets Privilege: Expanding Its Scope Through Government Misuse
Capitol Hill websites fail to make grade
White House Told to Provide E-Mail Info
Library of Congress, Microsoft Announce Agreement to Support New Interactive Experience for Visitors
Tripled FOIA Requests Put SEC to the Test
Advisory Board Urges Declassification Reforms
FCC chairman: Agency will investigate data discrimination by Comcast
Administration faces big challenge in records preservation
Documenting the Government -- Strait of Hormuz edition
UK - Copying CDs could be made legal
Rays of Sunlight in a Shadow “War”: FOIA, the Abuses of Anti-Terrorism, and the Strategy of Transparency
The Baghdad librarian's story
Digital Preservation Program Adds New Partners To Preserve State Government Digital Information
China Limits Video, Audio Podcasts To State Run Sites
AAAS Reverses Its Decision on Science Pullout From JSTOR
UK - Plan to give every child internet access at home
New Funding for the Office of Technology Assessment
More Iowa libraries now on-line thanks to state project
Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video
The 2007 Australian Federal Election on the Internet
The Best and Worst of 2007: Government Secrecy
Press Freedom Round-up 2007 - 86 journalists killed in 2007 - up 244% over five years
Senate Provides Better Tool for Tracking Lobbyists
Still No Directory of Federal Websites, E-Gov Act Ignored
Challenging Cheney - A National Archives official reveals what the veep wanted to keep classified--and how he tried to challenge the rules
FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics
2007 Countdown: Top Story Number 2--Major Case Decisions
Edwards Says Transparency Will Restore Trust - Tells Sunshine Campaign Says He Will Set New Standards for Openness
Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825
As Campaigns Crest, Some Libraries Step Up Election Education Efforts
New FOIA Law Does Not "Restore Presumption of Openness"
Egypt to copyright pyramids
Project to produce comprehensive digital archive of 60 million pages of federal government documents
Norway mandates government use of ODF
Public Access Mandate Made Law
E-Government Citizen Satisfaction Declines for Third Straight Quarter
Success! NIH Provision Remains Intact
Bush Secret Shredding Soars
50-State Agency Database Registry Launches Historical Materials
Put Me In Touch with Democracy!
Congress Directs EPA to Re-Open Its Libraries — Omnibus Appropriations Bill Earmarks Money for Restoration of Library Services
Richardson Responds to Sunshine Campaign Survey - Democrat Says He Will Roll Back 'Obsessive Secrecy'
Classification Reform Bill Introduced in House
"Foreign Relations of the U.S." Not Published in 2007
Johnston hunting for books to remove
NARA Seeks to Speed Processing of Presidential Records
National Archives Tells Court Hillary's White House Records Ready for Bill Clinton's Review by January 2008
Kentucky public libraries most regarded local government service in survey
Intel Agencies to Withhold Contract Info from Public Database
Congress Passes First FOIA Reform Bill in More Than a Decade
Korean Copyright Protection Extended to 70 Years
Iran shuts down 24 cafes in Net crackdown
Spy law showdown postponed until next year
After Looting, Burning, Iraqi Archive Makes Comeback
Senate gives FOIA overhaul green light
CREW Statement: Federal Judge Declares White House Visitor Records Subject to the Freedom of Information Act
Successful Test for First Phase of National Archives Electronic Records Archives System
Group urges US challenge Chinese censorship at WTO
Sandia Allows Access to Books After Outcry
Lewisville warehouse is new site for Bush records
Montana State Library delays digital switch
Canadian Government retreats on copyright reform
Issues and Advice for Officials Looking to Remove Social Security Numbers and Other Personal Information from Public Records
Ontario archives lost hundreds of items
OMB Offers an Easy Way to Follow the Money
Pooling Scholars’ Digital Resources
A Resolution on Internet Access to CRS Reports
The Sunlight Foundation's Punch Clock Campaign
Share Your Bills With Our New Facebook App
E-Government 2.0: Improving Innovation, Collaboration, and Access
Web Leaders Seek More Searchable Government
Vital Government Information "Hiding in Plain Sight"
Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy
ALA Reasserts Role of Libraries in E-government to U.S. Senate
Report Describes Systematic White House Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Science
States clammed up after 9/11
House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites
Florida's Governor Crist Announces New Initiatives for Open Government
NY's Project Sunlight
Citizen Journalis