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Hi all - A few bits of news from the Government Records Transparency and Accountability interest Group: - This coming *Thursday, April 12 *at 1pm EDT, we're hosting a webinar on "*Federal Records Transparency and Immigrant Justice*," featuring Victoria López (senior staff attorney at the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union), Emily Creighton (Deputy Legal Director at the American Immigration Council) and Guillermo Cantor (Director of Research at the American Immigration Council). More details and information about how to tune in is available on the meeting agenda <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w_KYEOyye75mXpnfM_QWw134MV8Z5Q1Y2chzwHh0ecA/edit> and our group's wiki <https://wiki.diglib.org/Transparency-Accountability#Upcoming_Calls>. - Katherine Kim just posted a short item <https://www.diglib.org/recording-available-for-dlfgrt-presentation-on-the-2020-census/> on the DLF blog announcing the availability of a recording of Amy West's recent virtual presentation “*The GOP and the 2020 Census: Why count the population you have when you can make the population you want?*” Katherine's post also includes links to additional info about the 2020 Census. - We recently posted, on the DLF's blog, a series <https://www.diglib.org/category/edw/> of reflections on Endangered Data Week (EDW) 2018, including a post <https://www.diglib.org/endangered-data-week-charlottesville-open-data-portal/> by Sheila Blackford on the Charlottesville Open Data Portal, a post <https://www.diglib.org/endangered-data-week-at-the-university-of-maryland/> by Joseph Koivisto on EDW at the University of Maryland, and a post <https://www.diglib.org/endangered-data-week-at-the-university-of-victoria/> by J. Matthew Huculak on using the video game Duck Hunt to highlight big questions about dangers to digital data. Keep an eye out later this week for the final post in this series, by Justin Schell, on EDW at Wayne State University. Hope you're all hanging in, Rachel -- Rachel Mattson, PhD *>Manager of Digital & Special Projects*, La MaMa Archives <http://catalog.lamama.org/> *>Lead Organizer*, Digital Library Federation <https://www.diglib.org/>'s Government Records Transparency & Accountability Interest Group <https://wiki.diglib.org/Transparency-Accountability#DLF_Government_Records_Transparency_and_Accountability_Group> *>Open Project Lead*, Mozilla Open Leaders 2018 rachelmattson.wordpress.com @captain_maybe ######################################################################## to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit diglib.org/announce