[Air-L] Fwd: [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior: Records Destruction Request. Public Comment Period.

Wed Oct 24 10:20:20 PDT 2018

I do not know if this is useful for jurisdictional reasons, but the British
Library currently has a call open for grants to protect endangered archives.

Do you know of any collections that are currently at risk and need
preserving? The Endangered Archives Programme is now accepting preliminary
applications for the next annual funding round – the deadline for
submission of preliminary applications is 12 noon 19 November 2018 and full
details of the application procedures and documentation
<https://eap.bl.uk/Preliminary-Application-Documention> are available on
the EAP website.

https://blogs.bl.uk/endangeredarchives/2018/09/call-for-applications-now-open.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EndangeredArchivesBlog+%28Endangered+Archives%29

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:05 AM lindsay blackwell <lblackw at umich.edu> wrote:

> looping in brandon locke at MSU (who spearheads endangered data week
> <https://endangereddataweek.org/about/>) for insight into protecting this
> data.
>
> Lindsay Blackwell <http://www.lindsayblackwell.net> [she/her]
> PhD Candidate, School of Information
> University of Michigan
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:54 AM Irani, Lilly <lirani at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> > In addition to formal commentary and reaching out to congress, are there
> > other measures that would be possible such as requesting the archives and
> > creating copies? Michelle Murphy and Patrick Keilty at University of
> > Toronto in partnership with librarians at universities organized an
> > archiving hackathon to download EPA data in anticipation of attempts to
> > destroy the records.
> >
> > This is not an area of expertise for me but of course this is urgent.
> > ________________________________
> > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Charles M.
> Ess
> > <c.m.ess at media.uio.no>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 10:54:38 PM
> > To: air-l
> > Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior:
> > Records Destruction Request. Public Comment Period.
> >
> > Dear AoIRists,
> > I'm not sure this intersects much with internet research - though
> > someone might want to document the effort, if nothing else, under the
> > internet and social activism.
> > AoIRists who are U.S. citizens - is this as Orwellian and disturbing as
> > it looks?
> > If so, please act and forward as appropriate.
> > glumly,
> > - charles ess
> >
> >
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > Subject:         [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior:
> > Records
> > Destruction Request. Public Comment Period.
> > Date:    Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:35:57 -0700
> > From:    Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To:        liberationtech <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
> > To:      Liberation Technologies <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
> > CC:      Mr. James R. Jacobs <jrjacobs at stanford.edu>
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Mr. James R. Jacobs <jrjacobs at stanford.edu
> > <mailto:jrjacobs at stanford.edu>>
> >
> >        I wanted to alert you to a very disturbing thing happening in the
> > National Archives world that may severely impact research, especially
> > historical and scientific research. The Dept of interior is asking for
> > permission to destroy records about oil and gas leases, mining, dams,
> > wells, timber sales, marine conservation, fishing, endangered species,
> > non-endangered species, critical habitats, land acquisition, and lots
> > more. Basically records from every agency within the Interior
> > Department, including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park
> > Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, US Geological Survey, Bureau of
> > Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and
> > others. This is all content that would normally go to NARA for
> > collection and preservation. This is disturbing because previous
> > administrations would obfuscate records by classifying/reclassifying
> > records. This admin is basically just destroying records so they’ll
> > never be accessible.
> >
> >       There’s an October 29 deadline for comment to NARA:
> > request.schedule at nara.gov <mailto:request.schedule at nara.gov> /// fax:
> > 301-837-3698 /// NARA (ACRA), 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD
> > 20740-6001. (Be sure to say that you’re referring to
> > DAA-0048-2015-0003.) Please forward to your networks and researchers who
> > may be effected.
> >
> >       More information: https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/
> >
> >       NARA’s appraisal memo
> >
> >
> https://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/DAA-0048-2015-0003_Appraisal_Memo.pdf
> >
> >
> >       this is tragic and terrible.
> >
> >       james
> >
> >
> >
> >       --
> >       James R. Jacobs
> >       US Government Information Librarian
> >       123D Green Library
> >       Stanford University
> >       P: 650.862.9871
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> >       Gchat: freegovinfo
> >       T: @freegovinfo
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> > lockss-usdocs.stanford.edu <http://lockss-usdocs.stanford.edu>
> > library.stanford.edu/people/jrjacobs
> > <http://library.stanford.edu/people/jrjacobs>
> > freegovinfo.info/about/jrjacobs <http://freegovinfo.info/about/jrjacobs>
> >
> >       "The art of research is the ability to look at the details, and
> > see the passion."
> >       -- Daryl Zero, "The Zero Effect" (1998)
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