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Librarian Life: FRASER Reveals the Compelling History of Prices and Wages
February 12, 2020How much did that cost then? Learn about how FRASER provides important context for historical prices and wage data. Read more
Dismal Facts: Invisible Revisions
January 6, 2020Policymakers use the best data available to them, which is often revised after the fact. This Inside FRASER explores how data revisions can complicate research of historical economic policy Read more
Librarian Life: Recurring Downloads
October 9, 2019Learn how FRASER strives to capture economic history in the making, with regular updates from a wide variety of economic and monetary policy websites. Read more
Librarian Life: Organization of Digitized Archival Collections
July 25, 2018They say that the perfect is the enemy of the good. Read about how the FRASER team has applied best practices to produce more content, faster. Read more
Librarian Life: Statistical Releases
May 16, 2018Federal Reserve statistical releases are a key source of the Fed’s economic data. Learn about their history. Read more
Dismal Facts: Using FRASER to Measure Central Bank Independence
April 18, 2018Explore one example of how FRASER has been used to build a dataset for economic research. Read more
Librarian Life: Offsite Scanning
August 2, 2017Many FRASER materials are scanned at repositories. How do we go about ensuring that everything is scanned and processed properly, when we can’t bring them here? Read more
Librarian Life: Converting TXT files to PDF
July 5, 2017Providing high quality content on FRASER sometimes requires thinking outside the box. Read more
FRASER Features: Finding Laws on FRASER
June 21, 2017Finding laws online can be confusing. This overview of how FRASER’s collection of banking and policy legislation is organized can help. Read more
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