Limits of Full Text Searching

There are people out there who don’t see the point of cataloging or adding metadata to resources. They think that full text searching provides all the access anyone really needs.
As you likely know from the title of this blog, I beg to differ. But more than just differing, I like to offer examples where better [...]

New FGI Discussions: January 14, 2008

This month the Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info) volunteers welcomed John Shuler, from the University of Illinois Chicago as our January Blogger of the Month.
John and the FGI volunteers posted these stories since the start of the year:
John’s Posts:
+Back to the future: Jefferson’s 1815 Library records and Preservation of 21st Century State Digital Information
Volunteers’ Posts:
+Improving Declassification [...]

New FGI Discusssions: December 31, 2007

This week the Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info)
volunteers posted these stories:
+ New CRS Report on Data Mining - Daniel
+ Happy 75th to UCLA! - Daniel
+ GovernmentDocs.org provides enhanced access to FOIA documents - Jim A.
+ How many government websites are there? - Jim A.
+ Most fed data is un-Googleable - Jim A.
+ Boston Public Library Digitization [...]

New FGI Discussions: December 24, 2007

Greetings all and happy winter solstice or your favorite year-endholiday! It’s been an exciting and busy year for us here at FGI. As youcan see by the recent blog posts, things have been a little slow for usin the past week or so, but that’s to be expected with all thetravel/planning/family/cooking etc that goes on. [...]

New FGI Discussions: December 17, 2007

This week the Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info) volunteers posted these stories:
+ 50-State Agency Database Registry Launches Historical Materials+ Fed shredding on the increase since 2000+ New OMB Federal Spending Database+ ALA: public libraries critical to delivery of E-government+ What is wrong with Fusion Centers+ CongressTube?+ Bill would make CRS reports available+ Happy Human Rights Day [...]

New FGI Discussions: December 10, 2007

This week was another quiet one for the Free Government Information(http://freegovinfo.info) volunteers as we posted these stories:
+ New CRS Report on Senate Holds+ Comparing the presidential candidates+ What’s worse than 18 1/2 minutes of deleted audio?+ Get Hearings Fast!+ Wikileaks puts another Gitmo document online
We’re always looking for audio/video spots promoting depositories,government information or the [...]

New FGI Discussions: December 3, 2007

This week was a quiet one for the Free Government Information volunteers(http://freegovinfo.info) as we bid farewell to Carlos Diaz as NovemberBlogger of the Month. He kept writing to the end and gave us all much tothink about. Carlos and the volunteers posted the following stories thisweek:
Carlos’ postings:+ The Nurturing Librarian+ Reinventing Ourselves–Part II
Volunteer postings:+ Happy [...]

New FGI Discussions: November 26, 2007

This week was the third anniversary for Free Government Information(http://freegovinfo.info)! Three years of advocating for decentralizedcollections of no-fee fully functional government information!
And to show that we haven’t rested on our past writings, November BOTMCarlos Diaz and the FGI volunteers posted the following stories:
Carlos’ postings:+ Thanksgiving Statistics
Volunteer postings:
+ Happy 3rd anniversary FGI!+ Free NYT + Free [...]

New FGI Discussions: November 12, 2007

This week November BOTM and frequent govdoc-l contributor Carlos Diazposted a great conversation starter, “Reinventing Ourselves” to FreeGovernment Information (http://freegovinfo.info). Even if you are not aregular visitor to FGI, check out what Carlos has to say. Is he right?What should we do?
Carlos, and the Free Government Information volunteers posted otherstories in the past week as [...]

New FGI Discussions: November 5, 2007

Since the last “New FGI Discussions”, we said goodbye to October BOTMBarrett Jones and welcomed Evergreen College’s Carlos Diaz as ourNovember Blogger. Unfortunately, Barrett lost his day job due to budgetcuts towards the end of the month. If you have a job opening that mightbe a good match for him, please drop us a line [...]