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Another Embedded PDF

February 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Via TechCrunch, I just found a web-based pdf viewer that allows for up to 100mb uploads (500 pages), is free, permits embedding, and has a slick interface. Cool!
Here’s s-pub 102-20 again, perhaps in a more legible form.

if you click on “open publication” you’ll get a new page with the document in it, with the [...]

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Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress Meeting

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

This morning I had the pleasure of attending the 34th meeting of the Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress.  Since congressional reform and improvement efforts all take place within a rich political, administrative, technological, and historical context, any time the institution of Congress coordinates broadly to assess itself, we should be paying attention.
Organizational realignments [...]

Tags: ACRC · CLA · Congress · NARA · OpenHouse · archive · archivist · spub 102-20

Reading Notes on The Documentation of Congress

January 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

After going through the trouble of obtaining and digitizing the 1992 report on congressional documentation, I’ve started going systematically through the document, and, in an attempt to read more closely, have been taking notes.  This is a long post, but the parallels with the Open House Project are startling to me, as are the contrasts: [...]

Tags: CLA · Member Web Sites · NARA · OpenHouse · government websites · jurisdiction · legal research · library of congress · lobbying · lobbying disclosure · ota · preservation · senate · spub 102-20