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Making Access Happen by Expanding Broadband

May 1, 2014March 15, 2021 by dferriero, posted in Leadership, Participation, Special Events, Technology

I recently attended the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ public hearing on broadband access, hosted at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC. I was joined by colleagues from Federal agencies, universities, museums and libraries to examine the need for high speed broadband access in America’s libraries, and how this access … Continue reading Making Access Happen by Expanding Broadband

Be Bold: Make Access Happen

April 15, 2014March 15, 2021 by dferriero, posted in NARA Records, Open Government, Participation

Photograph of Women Working at a Bell System Telephone Switchboard. National Archives Identifier 1633445. The first of our new strategic goals is to “Make Access Happen.” Increasingly, access means digital, online access. Our first goal has one objective, to make our records available to the public in digital form to ensure that anyone can … Continue reading Be Bold: Make Access Happen

FDR’s BHAG

August 29, 2013March 15, 2021 by dferriero, posted in Leadership, NARA Records, Open Government, Participation, Technology

Robert D.W. Connor, the President of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and recently retired first Archivist of the United States, in his address to the Society at their annual meeting in 1942 read a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt who had been awarded an honorary membership in the organization. He called for “...the … Continue reading FDR’s BHAG

Yes We Scan Again! The Archives chats with voters on a “We the People” teleconference

February 6, 2012March 15, 2021 by dferriero, posted in Leadership, Open Government, Participation, Special Events

On January 10th, I blogged about the “Yes We Scan” petitions proposed by Carl Malamud’s PublicResource.org on the White House’s We The People petition platform. “Yes We Scan” calls for a national strategy, and even a Federal Scanning Commission, to figure out what it would take to digitize the holdings of many federal entities, from … Continue reading Yes We Scan Again! The Archives chats with voters on a “We the People” teleconference

“Yes We Scan”

January 10, 2012March 15, 2021 by dferriero, posted in Collaboration, Leadership, NARA Records, Open Government, Participation, Records Management

In September 2011, the White House launched an online petition web site, We the People, where anyone can post an idea asking the Obama administration to take action on a range of issues, get signatures, and get a response from their government. It’s an experiment in democracy, which is generating new ideas and improving on … Continue reading “Yes We Scan”