Carol Ebbinghouse provides her take on the U.S. Law.Gov project in today's NewsBreak from Information Today. Her article, Law.Gov Issues Principles and Declaration, brings us up-to-date on this project to bring law online and into the public domain. Carl Malamud, leader of the Law.Gov project, describes it on his website:
Law.Gov is an idea, an idea that the primary legal materials of the United States should be readily available to all, and that governmental institutions should make these materials available in bulk as distributed, authenticated, well-formatted data.
Carol outlines the actions librarians can take to support the project, saying "If you think progress has not already been made, you are quite wrong! If you think there is nothing you can do, you couldn’t be more mistaken." She also provides information sources for following Law.Gov news. (An additional source, for those who tweet, is the twitter hashtag #lawgov.)
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