Neues aus der Welt der Behördenbibliotheken: Das Center for Democracy and Technology betreut eine neue Website namens Open CRS, die den Zugriff auf Berichte des "Think Tanks" Congressional Research Service (angesiedelt an der Library of Congress) erleichtern und an zentraler Stelle zusammenfassen soll.
Dazu schreibt Steven Clift in do-wire: "The whole idea that taxpayer funded expert advice to our elected officials would not be shared freely on the Internet by Congress itself probably won't stand for many more years. It just doesn't make sense that in a representative democracy, the fear of political influence over research service advice caused by broad public access is somehow more influential than existing attempts by paid lobbyists to scrub or influence every sentence in just about any government document produced in Washington, DC".
Derzeit sind bereits an die neuntausend Reports enthalten, zum Beispiel auch "How to Find Information in a Library and on the Internet" (97-76), "Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act" (RS21441) und "Federal Aid to Libraries: The Library Services and Technology Act" (RL31320).