Finding aids from Yale's special collections repositories are now discoverable through Connecticut Archives Online (CAO, ).  CAO is a union index of finding aids from repositories across Connecticut, developed and hosted by Western Connecticut State University.  Users can cross search finding aids from Western Connecticut, UConn, Yale and other repositories.  After discovering a finding aid in CAO, the user will be redirected back to the Yale Finding Aid Database to view the actual finding aid.

On November 4th, President Obama signed an executive order requiring agencies to use one term only -- “Controlled Unclassified Information,” (CUI) -- to mark documents that they believe should be protected, but not designated as “classified.”   The order establishes a program for managing this information that emphasizes the openness and uniformity of Government-wide practice.  Prior to the order, several federal agencies used their own system of approximately 120 different markings in order to categorize and protect information.  These agency-specific policies led to unclear and sometimes unnecessarily restrictive dissemination policies, and created impediments to authorized information sharing. 

The order can be viewed here.