Selected Bibliography
James A. Jacobs

Integrating Machine-Readable Information into the University Library

1986. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology.

U.S. Government Computer Bulletin Boards: A Modest Proposal for Reform

Government Publications Review, v17 n5 p393-96 Sep-Oct 1990. Discusses electronic bulletin boards that have been created by U.S. government agencies and suggests a method to make the information they contain more accessible to libraries and the public. Costs and technological issues are considered, and an appendix describes networks and computer programs that would facilitate access to government information.

Providing Data Services for Machine-Readable Information in an Academic Library: Some Levels of Service

The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, vol. 2, no. 1 (1991): 144-160. (local copy)

Glossary of Social Science Computing Terms

Terms of use in managing data collections and providing basic data services

Providing Information and Services via the WWW. Westbrook, Brad and Jim Jacobs,

Workshop, Society of American Archivists, August 26, 1996.

Re: Rumblings of new assault on EPA right to know regulations

posting by Jim Jacobs to govdoc-l (mailing list), Mon, 1 Oct 2001 (local copy)

Government Documents at the Crossroads, Karrie Peterson, Elizabeth Cowell, and Jim Jacobs.

American Libraries 32(8) (September 2001): 52-55. [subscription required.] [Also see author's copy (no subscription required)]

The Technical is Political, Jim Jacobs, Karrie Peterson.

Of Significance... 3(1) 2001, p.25-35. Association of Public Data Users. [pdf file]. (The complete issue 3:1 and other back issues are now available directly from APDU.

Managing Digital Content in the FDLP: Frequently Asked Questions, Cowell, Peterson, Jacobs.

2001. [pdf file]

Preserving research data, James A. Jacobs and Charles Humphrey. [Official ACM copy (subscription required)] (Also see: free Official ACM copy [pdf])

Communications of the ACM. Volume 47, Number 9 (2004), Pages 27-29. authors' copy; another authors' copy

RSS, etc. [Powerpoint] [PDF version]

Presented at session "New Blogs for Depositories" at meeting of U.S. Depository Library Council, October 17, 2004.

Government Information in the Digital Age: The Once and Future Federal Depository Library Program James A. Jacobs, James R. Jacobs, and Shinjoung Yeo

Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 2005, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jacalib].

Government Information in the Digital Era: Free Culture or Controlled Substance?
Karrie Peterson and James A. Jacobs.

Paper presented at the "Symposium on Free Culture and the Digital Library 2005" Emory University, October 2005. [abstract] [summary of remarks]

Doing Data Reference

Four lectures for reference librarians at UCSD.

Preserving Congressional Information

in, Congressional Information & the Internet, The OpenHouse Project, May 8, 2007.

Preserving [Congressional] information

OP-ED, The Hill, June 05, 2007.
One of a series of Op-Eds written by contributors to the OpenHouse Project's report on congressional information.

RSS for documents librarians

ALA Docs2.0 Preconference: emerging web technologies for the government documents community. Friday, June 27, 2008. Powerpoint presentation (with speaker notes).

Citizens in the Dark? Government Information in the Digital Age.

Aug 29, 2008 [speaker-notes] Presentation at meeting of the Acquisitions and Appraisal Section of the Society of American Archivists Convention.

Federal Depository Library Program: Services and Collections, by James A. Jacobs.

Against the Grain, (v.21 no. 2, April 2009). 28-

Information Policy: Historical and Conceptual Context for Grassroots Change.

Presentation at the session "Libraries and Obama’s Information Policy," Annual meeting of the American Library Association, July 11, 2009.

Demystifying Digital Deposit: What It Is and What It Could Do for the Future of the FDLP, by Rebecca Blakeley and Jim Jacobs.

Fall Depository Library Council Meeting - Arlington, VA, October 20, 2009.

FreeGovInfo

(2004- ). Free Government Information (FGI) is a place for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various players (libraries, government agencies, non-profit organizations, researchers, journalists, etc.) who have a stake in the preservation of and perpetual free access to government information. FGI promotes free government information through collaboration, education, advocacy and research. jajacobs' blog.