ALA, SPARC, Free Government Information, and 35 Other Organizations Send Letter to Congress in Support of “Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act (ACMRA)”
From the Letter to Congress (via R Stree):
ACMRA [Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act (ACMRA)] solves a significant problem: it establishes a central repository for agency reports submitted to Congress and tracks whether agencies have submitted the reports. Currently, congressional staff often are unaware of or have difficulty finding agency reports to Congress, especially when they are submitted to another committee or chamber. Reports often are lost or duplicated. In addition, while the reports could be made available to the public, they can be hard to find online and the FOIA request process is slow and costly.
Read the Complete Letter ||| PDF Version
Read the Bill/Track the Legislation (H.R. 4631)
See Also: Revealing the Lost World of Government Reports (via Project on Government Oversight)
Btw, Some Congressional Research Reports Are Accessible on the Web, Here’s a New Roundup Featuring About 25 Reports We’ve Curated
Filed under: Associations and Organizations, News, Open Access, Reports, Roundup
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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