Disappearing Government Information and the Effort to Preserve It

[Updated 25 October 2017]

The group Government Publications Librarians of New England (GPLNE) has organized a fall webinar on disappearing government information and the effort to preserve it. We are fortunate to be joined by two leading government information advocates, James R. Jacobs (Stanford University) and James A. Jacobs (Emeritus, UC San Diego) who will lead the presentation after a brief introduction.

Link to poster as PDF

Presentation details:

Who: James R. Jacobs (Stanford Univ.) & James A. Jacobs (UC San Diego)
What: Disappearing Government Information and the Effort to Preserve it
When: Tuesday, October 24, at 2pm EST
Where: Live streaming via GPO: http://login.icohere.com/gpo?pnum=QFH57863

A recording of the presentation is now available online at the following URL:

click on this link

James R. Jacobs provided a link to the slides for download here:

https://freegovinfo.info/node/12422

Please note the name of the presentation was changed to Government Information: Everywhere and Nowhere.

Some recent related articles include the following:

• Treasury Department Scrubs Paper from Website (FreeGovInfo, 10/5/2017)
• What Could We Lose if a NASA Climate Mission Goes Dark? (New York Times, 9/12/2017)
• These Advocates Want to Make Sure Our Data Doesn’t Disappear (FreeGovInfo, 8/26/2017)
• Another US agency deletes references to climate change on government website (The Guardian, 8/23/2017)
• Using Fair Use to Preserve and Share Disappearing Government Information (Association of Research Libraries, 8/2017)
• The Disappearing Data Project (Think Progress, 5/22/2017)
• Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data — If They Can Find It (New York Times, 3/6/2017)
• Why is federal government data disappearing? (The Hill, 2/21/2017)
• Panel on End-of-term crawl and the collection of vulnerable government information (FreeGovInfo, 1/23/2017)
• Harvesting Government History, One Web Page at a Time (New York Times, 12/1/2016)
• Less Access to Less Information By and About the U.S. Government (FreeGovInfo, Updated 10/2017)

Please direct additional questions or concerns to Andrew Lopez, Research Support Librarian at Connecticut College: andrew.lopez [at] conncoll.edu