ALA Governmental Information Subcommittee Committee
COL's FDLP Task Force Final Report
by Jessica McGilvray (staff) on Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 09:55 am
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FDsys has reached one billion retrievals!
by Jessica McGilvray (staff) on Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:31 am
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Madison and Cooke Awards
by Jessica McGilvray (staff) on Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 08:21 am
On Friday, March 14th the ALA awarded President Barack Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies the 2014 James Madison Award during the 16th Annual Freedom of Information Day in Washington, D.C. The Presidential Review Group received the award for calling for dozens of urgent and practical reforms to the National Security Agency’s unlawful surveillance programs.
The ALA also presented the Open Government Project of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey the Eileen Cooke Award for improving citizen access to public records and meeting files. This award is named for Eileen Cooke, former director of the ALA’s Washington Office, honors an extraordinary leader who has built local grassroots awareness of the importance of access to information.
For more information on this event, please see this District Dispatch article and/ or the press release.
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GPO's Webinar: “U.S. Courts Opinions: An FDsys Collection,”
by Jessica McGilvray (staff) on Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 04:40 pm
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Webinar: U.S. Courts Opinions: An FDsys Collection
A live training webinar, “U.S. Courts Opinions: An FDsys Collection,” will be offered on Thursday, April 17, 2014. Register today for “U.S. Courts Opinions: An FDsys Collection.”
The webinar is free, but registration is required. Space is limited on a first-come, first-served basis. Upon registering, you will receive an e-mail confirmation that includes instructions for joining the webinar. Registration confirmations for the webinar will be sent from sqldba @icohere.com. To ensure delivery of registration confirmations, registrants should configure junk mail or spam filter(s) to permit messages from that email address.
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GPO Approps hearing
by Jessica McGilvray (staff) on Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 09:47 am
I recently updated the webpage to make note of the below hearing that took place yesterday.
On March 4th the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations held a budget hearing on the Government Printing Office. Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooks’ spoke and provided her official testimony to the Committee.
“We are requesting a total of $128,919,000 for FY 2015, an increase of $9,619,000 or 8.1% over the level of funding provided for FY 2014 in P.L. 113-76. The increase is primarily attributable to the Congressional Printing and Binding account due to the currently projected reduction in the availability of unexpended prior year funds to offset new funding requirements. The other significant component of our increased request is for support of GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) and our Composition System Replacement project as well as necessary facilities maintenance and repairs.”
As we move forward with our appropriations asks this year, we will as always, be including GPO.
Please be on the look out for that alert!
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