The Census Bureau has proposed unprecedented changes to the 2030 Census. Public comment closes October 13, 2026. Here's what's proposed and how to weigh in.

The world’s biggest AI companies are buying antiquarian books en masse so they can be scanned to train their large language models (LLMs) before being destroyed.

Is it true you'll get cheaper groceries or flights ordering them on a public library computer? Social media sleuths suggest that using the library is the key to nabbing good deals in our current era o...

Plus, the quest to preserve public data.

Over the past several months I extracted several hundred thousand biographical statements from two Victorian reference works, the Colonial Office List and the India Office List, printed almost every y...

Our nation, in numbers. USAFacts provides a comprehensive, nonpartisan view of the state of our union.

At the 2026 PAA Annual Meeting, researchers and data advocates warned of mounting threats to federal statistics—and shared practical ways to respond.

In this report, CDT Research draws on prior work in human-computer interaction and deceptive design disciplines to investigate how established dark patterns documented in other digital technology cont...

These past few weeks have felt like months, and these months have been years. We’ve taken great solace in the company of data nerds interested in preserving and providing access to public federal data...

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Group has banded together to rescue data as Trump administration has removed or altered data on climate change, reproductive health, LGBTQ people and more

These librarians are running for state political offices across the country. Here's why they're running, and why librarians make good candidates.

Bigger isn’t always better. What could we make with AI if scale wasn’t an objective? The 38-page zine “AI for Ants: A zine about Small AI” draws inspiration from the degrowth movement, climate justice...

How the archival work of librarians and other activists helps preserve more than just history.

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About the ExhibitThe Disappearing Data Chronology documents fundamental changes to the federal information landscape under the Trump administration, including major data losses and restorations, legal...

This is the first in a series of essays about the choices that knowledge institutions face as AI reshapes how their collections and resources are used. The people on various sides of these debates …

We have exciting news for the Data Rescue Project community! Thanks to our partners at the Public Environmental Data Partners and Fulton Ring, the rescued HIFLD data has become part of HIFLD Next, a n...

AI can play a decisive role in making digital government records more accessible and manageable, provided that its use is grounded in responsibility and clear purpose. Work is already underway across ...

As a tool for researchers, lawmakers, journalists and the public, the CNTR AISLE Portal provides analysis of state- and federal-level AI bills pending across the U.S.

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Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. As stated in the article, these organizations are blocking access largely out of concern that generative AI companies are using the Wayback Machine as a backdoor for large-scale scraping.

Every day, millions of Americans rely on federal data—often without realizing it. From checking the weather forecast to planning retirement, from tracking disease outbreaks to measuring economic growt...