Preserving Government Information Past, Present, and Future by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs The book examines how preservation practices of the past affect the preservation of digitally publish...

The Data Rescue Project, as a clearinghouse of data access points, loves highlighting partners and initiatives! Today, we feature Webrecorder, a company that develops web archiving tools and open sour...

Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.

A brave hummingbird does what she can to fight a fire in Sascha Alper's new book. It was one of the last projects illustrator Jerry Pinkney worked on before he died. His son Brian finished it for him.

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.

From 1981 until 1998, Anne Heanue and the fine folks at the Washington Office of the American Library Association (ALA) published an amazing series called Less Access to Less Information by and about ...

Helping a sick family member over months or years can be an enormous strain. It can also disrupt your identity. Psychologists say embracing this change can open up new ways for caregivers to cope.

Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court.

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With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.

Today, we highlight another partner in our data rescue work: America’s Essential Data (AED). The group aims to document “the value that data produced by the federal government provides for American li...

The rate of vaccinations for measles among kindergartners has declined in nearly every Washington county since 2020, writes FYI Guy.

We have had a lot of interest in our work over the weekend, probably because of the New Yorker article and the recent Executive Order targeting several key offices, especially for us librarians. We we...

U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...

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Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, died on Monday. On Friday at midnight, Parton released the song "If You Hadn't Been There" in his memory.

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Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.

In response to the Trump administration’s rapid dismantling of federal websites, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) has relaunched its Federal Environmental Web Tracker.

The event was in conjunction with the Data Rescue Project, an effort that has identified data at high risk of loss, and tapped volunteers to find, curate and save it.

We are excited to introduce the Data Rescue Tracker, a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you c...

A court finding that the Trump administration did not comply with an earlier order and a recent statement by Vice President JD Vance have some experts warning of a potential constitutional crisis.

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

Federal data access plays a fundamental role in advancing Duke research. We encourage you to contact askdata@duke.edu or your library subject specialist if you need advice on appropriate data sources ...

Happy Love Data Week everyone, International Love Data Week is always one of our favorite theme weeks. We enjoy seeing the creativity of the community and all the programming. This year’s LDW events ...