Open Government Directive (12/8/2009)

Tuesday (December 8th), the White House released the Open Government Directive. For more information, view the announcement here:



You can also learn more about it by reading the White House memorandum: Transparency and Open Government. Or you can check out the cool timeline on the Sunlight Foundation blog.





Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Urban Studies

Ask Congress to...Read the Bill

The Sunlight Foundation has started a petition, asking Congress to post all legislation online for 72 hours before putting it up for a vote. Here is their ad.


Read The Bill from Sunlight Foundation on Vimeo.

For more information, visit ReadtheBill.org.


(Kudos to OpenCongress for the information and video.)


Sonnet Erin Brown
Federal Documents Librarian
Subject Specialist: Political Science/Paralegal Studies