We are concerned that in some recent informal comments on twitter and some more formal discussions of the MN/MI regional proposal and ASERL project, the tone has taken on a decidedly confrontational, even hostile tone with implications that GPO is being obstructionist. We are concerned that a few libraries may be in a rush to set the agenda for the FDLP in a way that best suits their interests. We are writing in hopes of calming the discussion so that, at the upcoming Depository Library meeting, we can have constructive discussions and avoid rushing into important decisions and the setting of agendas. The stakes are too high to oversimplify the issues facing GPO, the FDLP, the Regional Depositories, and the Selective Depositories with one-word epithets, emotionally loaded characterizations, and name-calling. It is essential that the conversations at DLC not be dominated by a few well-organized, vocal Regionals.

1. At the DLC meeting this month, when the future of the FDLP is discussed and the specific proposals by MN/MI and ASERL are sure to be raised, it is very important that we differentiate the issues that Regional Depositories face (with their special legal requirements, comprehensive collections, and support of selective depositories) from the issues that selectives face. The issues overlap but it would be unwise to let the agendas of the Regionals (or, worse, just some of the Regionals) set the agenda for all of the FDLP.

Regionals face unique problems, and solving their problems will not necessarily "save" the FDLP any more than a failure to solve their problems will "kill" the FDLP. Even the defunding and privatization of GPO will not "kill" the FDLP: it will just make it that much more difficult to build and maintain FDLP collections and services.

It is particularly important that we examine the context of the proposals currently on the table. As Ithaka S+R has assiduously described in its recent reports, many library directors and administrations are actively seeking ways to weed their paper-and-ink collections, and some want to decrease their commitment to the FDLP because they no longer believe that there is an institutional value to depository status. Regardless of the efficacy of such policies, FDLP librarians should recognize that those policies, even if justifiable for an institution, have little if anything to do with a commitment to long-term, free, public access to government information. At best, designing policies based first on local needs will only yield value for the FDLP as a by-product; at worst, it will diminish the FDLP's value to users. Ithaka S+R's report already made the case for just such an approach and GPO has (wisely, we believe) rejected it.

GPO and the FDLP collectively need to maintain the long-term preservation of and access to government information as a first priority and need to keep the needs of information users, not individual institutions, as our collective highest priority when modeling the future of the FDLP. Policies based on such an approach will yield value to users as a direct result of their implementation, not as a by-product.

In our deliberations on the future of the FDLP, we need to clearly state our justifications for new policies and procedures and separate those that are demonstrably good for the FDLP and government information users from those that are tied to local needs -- such as budgetary constraints and the desire to weed paper-and-ink collections. Obviously, each library has to take its own needs into account, but, just as obviously, we should avoid making system-wide decisions based on the needs of a few libraries.

2. Developing a model for the future of the FDLP is going to require give-and-take and cooperation. Name calling and hostility will not serve the needs of anyone or result in positive solutions.

Libraries must work with GPO -- and vice versa. Libraries need to accept that GPO operates under legal constraints. When GPO asks legitimate legal questions, it is not attacking or resisting change; it is fulfilling its legal obligations. Characterizing GPO's responses as "protecting the status quo" are neither helpful in this difficult transition time, nor accurate.

That said, we also urge GPO to be as flexible as it legally can be and also as creative as it can be in order to come up with innovative solutions that strengthen information preservation, public access and the ongoing management of regionals and selectives. We believe GPO should push its policies and procedures to the limit of the law, not look for the most conservative possible interpretation of the law. We remember all too vividly how the introduction of microforms into the FDLP took almost 7 years, but it was done with leadership from GPO.

Just as GPO must work within a legal framework, so individual libraries must work within their own constraints. We urge FDLP libraries to be as flexible as possible and come up with plans that reflect the needs of a broad community of users and that will guarantee long-term preservation and access of government information in all formats. The digital-shift provides libraries new opportunities to do more than they ever have before. While it may seem easy to come up with procedures that reduce collections, minimize numbers of copies, increase costs to users and Selective Depositories, and reduce services to users, such "solutions" are, we believe, short-sighted and inadequate to the task at hand. It will be harder but, we would argue, much better to develop innovative solutions that will expand what libraries do to meet needs of users. Libraries are not as constrained as GPO is by Title 44: we can do more than GPO/FDsys can do by building collections that are beyond the scope of Title 44. Digital makes this possible and provides new opportunities; it should not be used as an excuse to trim services and collections.

We at FGI yield to no one in our desire for a fully functional digital FDLP. We have been advocating that for seven years and are just as anxious -- if not more so -- as anyone to move forward to the next phase of the FDLP. Over the years, we have criticized GPO and its policies -- and will continue to do so when we believe such criticism is warranted. But our intention has always been to challenge GPO to do more and to do better, and to work with FDLP libraries, not work against them or arrogate responsibilities from them. Just as we want GPO to work with FDLP libraries, we want FDLP libraries to work with, not in opposition to, GPO. We at FGI believe that the future of the FDLP will be most secure if GPO and FDLP libraries work together to a common end.

We urge all participants in these conversations to deal with each other collegially and cordially and seek common solutions that will benefit all -- not just a few libraries. We urge all parties to refrain from over-simpification of complex issues. We urge thoughtfulness and cooperation toward what should be our common goals of high-quality long-term preservation of and access to government information, driven first and foremost by the needs of users.

Endnotes

• Tweets:
  • "GPO headwinds"
  • "This is the way FDLP ends"
  • Twitter #fdlp hashtag
• ASERL documents:
  • ASERL FDLP implementation plan
  • ASERL letters to/from GPO
• Letters regarding the MI/MN shared regional plan:
  • GPO letter to Nancy Robertson 15 September 2011 (PDF)
  • response to GPO from Ms Robertson (PDF)
  • Response to GPO from Ms Wendy Lougee, University Librarian at University of MN
  • "Recent Developments on FDLP" from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) including links to several letters to/from GPO and the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Between University of Minnesota Libraries and Library of Michigan/Michigan Department of Education
• Privatization of GPO, Defunding of FDsys, and the Future of the FDLP
• FGI response to Ithaka draft values proposition for the FDLP
• "The GPO Microform Program its history and status" by LeRoy C. Schwarzkopf, DttP (June 1978) v6, n4, p163-166.

This has been a relatively busy week at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases.

Lynn McClelland continues to expand the healthcare practioner databases page at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Healthcare_practitioners_databases. It now features practioner related databases from 14 states and will be under heavy construction for the next month or so.

ORPHAN NEWS

Our last official orphan remains Rhode Island.

If you're interested in adopting Rhode Island, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt it. If you adopt Rhode Island, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details.

WIKI ACTIVITY

See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights:

DATABASES ADDED

NORTH DAKOTA (Kathryn Thomas)

Cass County, N.D. Divorce and Civil Cases Index - This database indexes over 3,300 civil and divorce case files, spanning from the 1870s to 1942, handled in Cass County District Court. Individual entries include names of the plaintiff and defendant, attorneys, dates of proceedings, and miscellaneous notes.

Kathryn recently completed a major expansion of the North Dakota page. If you haven't visited in the past week, you ought to now.

SOUTH DAKOTA (Brenda Hemmelman)

Professional Licensing Boards - links may or may not include searchable databases or lists of active/inactive licensees.

WASHINGTON (Marilyn Von Seggern)

Health Systems Quality Assurance Online Search - A credential search system for health care provider, health facility, hotels/motels, and migrant farmworker housing. The search is by credential number or name.

This has been an exciting week at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases.

On Wednesday, Daniel Cornwall gave a talk as part of the North Carolina Library Association Government Documents section's Accidental Government Information Librarian series. You can find the recording to his presenation at http://www.nclaonline.org/government-resources/grs-past-events along with other webinars that the NCLA's Lynda Kellam has coordinated.

One of the attendees was Lynn McClelland, who has created our first subject-based list of databases since 2008. Her page on healthcare practioner databases can be found at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Healthcare_practitioners_databases. It currently features a number of resources from three states and will be under heavy construction for the next month or so.

ORPHAN NEWS

Another attendee of the NCLA webinar is considering adopting Texas. While we let them ponder that choice, our last official orphan is Rhode Island.

If you're interested in adopting Rhode Island, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt it. If you adopt Rhode Island, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details.

WIKI ACTIVITY

See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights:

DATABASES ADDED

ALASKA (Daniel Cornwall)

Tobacco Endorsements - Search for licenses to sell tobacco by business license number, business name, street name or number or city.

DELAWARE (John Stevenson)

Vanity Plate Search and Reservation This Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles site helps one visualize and reserve vanity plates.

MICHIGAN (Michael McDonnell)

Bureaus of Health Professions and Health Systems license verification

The past few weeks have been a busy time at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at
http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases.

Part of what has kept us busy was the first official quarterly "link check" of our pages. This is a new initiative designed to keep project pages fresh.
Thanks to the many volunteers who spent the last week checking and fixing page links and posting the date of link checking to their page.

ORPHAN NEWS

A big thank you to Carlos A. Diaz for adopting Mississippi. He fixed all the broken links and added a number of new resources.

Now the official list of unadopted orphans stands at just two Rhode Island and Texas. I still think it would be a public service for someone to adopt Gov. Rick Perry's home and expand the list of Texas databases in order to provide a broader view of the Texas record. I'd do it if I didn't have Arizona in addition to Alaska.

If you're a librarian in either Texas or Rhode Island, I'd really appreciate it if you would forward this message to appropriate listservs in your state.

If you're interested in either Texas or Rhode Island, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer Guide for more details.

TRANSFER NEWS

Not sure if this was mentioned in a previous report, but Liz Paulus has taken over the Oregon page.

WIKI ACTIVITY

See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights:

DATABASES ADDED

CALIFORNIA (Joel Rane)

Publicly Traded Disclosure Search - This search allows you to search for all publicly traded corporations that have filed a Corporate Disclosure
Statement with the Secretary of State, search the full text of information contained in a specific
statement, and view abstracts of reported information. Searchable by corporation name, the names of officers, or an auditor name; there is also an advanced search.

INDIANA (Kimberly Brown-Harden)

Oral Arguments Online - Oral arguments are webcast live and are available in Windows Media format. The link to view a live webcast will be available
two minutes prior to the start time of an argument, and no sooner, unless the courtroom proceedings are delayed. The link to the archived video and the audio
podcast (if available) will be accessible two hours after the start time of the hearing. Can search the arguments by keyword, title, case number, summary, etc. Also able to browse by year,court, month, and county.

MISSISSIPPI (CARLOS A. DIAZ)

Market Development Company Search - This database is part of the Make Mine Mississippi marketing campaign so people can get in touch with Mississippi companies.

CHANGES TO SUBJECT PAGES

BIOGRAPHICAL DATABASES

North Carolina Builders & Architects: A Biographical Dictionary - This biographical dictionary highlights architects and builders who have produced North
Carolina's architecture for more than 300 years. Clicking on "show more options" opens up Gender, Race, Trade, Styles & Forms, Building Types, and "Flourished Dates."

Records includes locations where the builders and architects did projects.

ORPHAN NEWS

We had another relatively quiet at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project.

The list of orphan states in need of adoption is unchanged from last week:

Mississippi
Rhode Island
Texas

If you're a librarian in one of the above states, I'd really appreciate it if you would forward this message to appropriate listservs in your state. As I mentioned last week, the entry of Gov Ricky Perry into the Presidential race could make the Texas page a hot property if someone volunteered to update it. Just think of how Texas' perfomance in the last decade could be documented if there was a one stop place of all of its various databases.

If you're interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details.

WIKI ACTIVITY

See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by
blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights:

DATABASES ADDED

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (Shirl Kennedy)

Answers, Please! (Social Services Database) - "Answers, Please! Online offers the public direct access to a network of government and community social service providers via the Internet. By incorporating the latest web technology and the
District's mapping system, users may locate programs alphabetically or by program name, topic, keyword, and proximity to an address."

NEW MEXICO (Adrienne Walker)

EGIS Mapper The EGIS Mapper Application allows users to find and display key features of the data map such as drinking water sources and hazardous waste facilities. The navigation menu to the left covers key topics and functional tools of the map. Click on the Help Using this Tool link located in the upper
right corner of the application for explanations and instructions regarding navigation, layers and controls in the creation of your query.

In addition to the databases added to project pages, Shirl Kennedy added some resources to our "Not Databases" page at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Not_Databases, including:

Office of Tax and Revenue: Delinquent Taxpayers List "Publication of the delinquent taxpayers' lists below is part of an overall program to encourage voluntary compliance with the District's tax laws." (PDF)

Office of the Chief Financial Officer: DC Tobacco Directory "Use the following links to view the Tobacco Directory and any changes to it that may be
currently pending. The Tobacco Directory is listed by Manufacturer and is in PDF format. To search by brand family instead of manufacturer, select the search option on the toolbar at the top of the document and type in the exact brand family name. Be sure to include the correct spelling and punctuation to ensure a correct brand search."

Office of the Chief Technology Officer: All Online Maps "The District of Columbia offers several online mapping applications highlighting data and information from various fields of interest such as crime statistics, public school profiles, detailed property information and more. The online mapping sites below, listed in alphabetic order, present data coming from agencies across the District government.
Click each online map to read a brief introduction and to access the site." More than 30 are currently available.

Why does our project have a "not databases" page? Since the project got underway in June 2007, a number of people have submitted resources, that while useful, fell outside the scope of this project. Either they weren't really databases or they were not published by a governmental entity belonging to a given state. But they are useful and so we're loath to just throw them away.

ORPHAN NEWS

This week was relatively quiet at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project.

The list of orphan states in need of adoption is unchanged from last week:

Mississippi
Rhode Island
Texas

It would be particularly nice to have Texas adopted out as an accurate annotated list of Texas databases would likely be used by people evaluating Governor Rick Perry's record now that he's running for President.

If you're interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details.

WIKI ACTIVITY

See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights:

DATABASES ADDED

NEW MEXICO (Adrienne Walker)

Licensed Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors - Search for licensed professional engineers and licensed professional surveyors by license number, last name, first name, city, state, zip, license type, branch or status (there is a key available on the search page to assist in the selection of license type, status or branch).

New Mexico Coal Mines Query - This database displays information from the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. This site includes general data and statistics about active mines, notices of violation and water quality samples.

LOUISIANA (Rita Franks)

Restaurant Inspections - This state website provides access to restaurant inspections that include critical and non-critical violations, along with corrective actions that have been taken or are pending.

DATABASES REMOVED

MISSOURI (Annie Moots)

Local Telephone Exchange Companies - Searchable by town/city.

VOLUNTEER AND ORPHAN NEWS

This week the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project welcomed three new volunteers who have publicly claimed their pages:

District of Columbia - Adopted by Shirl Kennedy
Indiana - Adopted by Kimberly Brown-Harden
Hawaii - Adopted by Gwen Sinclair

With the changes above, the current list of orphan states in need of adoption is:

Mississippi
Rhode Island
Texas

If you're interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details.

WIKI ACTIVITY

See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights:

DATABASES ADDED

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (Shirl Kennedy)

Food Facility Inspections Online - Search for and view inspection reports for facilities that serve or sell food to the public. Site says, "The majority of the permitted food service establishments in Washington, DC receive two routine unannounced food safety inspections per year." Database contains reports for the last three years. Reports are in PDF format.

Shirl added seven other databases to the DC page. Check them out!

NORTH CAROLINA (Jennifer Davison)

NC Open Book : Transparency in NC State Government NC OpenBook is designed to show you where North Carolina's money goes. Allows searches for awardees of grants and contracts.

Jennifer also appears to have added and reorganized other material on the North Carolina page. If you haven't visited recently, it would be worth it to go back.

DATABASES REMOVED

ALASKA (Daniel Cornwall)

Alaska Consultant List - From the website "The Alaska Consultant List is intended to be a shortcut to finding Mining Engineers and Geologists that are properly licensed to perform consulting service business in the state of Alaska. The list provides names of persons by service who have requested to be listed. Pull down the list by service and click on the selected name to show contact information. The list is intended to be a service to the public; the Office of Economic Development makes no representation as to the competency of the persons or businesses."

This resource is still live on the web, but we realized it did not fit the criteria for a searchable database. Since it is a useful resource, we moved it to our Not Database/Not State page at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Not_Databases.

ORPHAN NEWS

This week was relatively quiet at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project.

Our list of orphan pages in need of adoption is unchanged from last week:

• District of Columbia
• Hawaii
• Indiana
• Mississippi
• Rhode Island
• Texas

If you're interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details.

WIKI ACTIVITY

Looking at our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs, you can see that Adrienne Walker, our volunteer for New Mexico, was primarily responsible for what activity we had this week.

DATABASES ADDED

NEW MEXICO (Adrienne Walker)

Sex Offender Registry - This sex offender registry has been designed to provide information to the public concerning the location of sex offenders residing in the State of New Mexico. The Department of Public Safety (DPS) hopes this site will increase and promote public awareness.

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Quiet isn't all bad. A lot of link fixing by many volunteers has been done in the past month or so. If things are quiet this week, it's probably a sign that if a page has a volunteer, you can count on the freshness of the links.

For pages without a volunteer, like Mississippi, we have some broken links, like this one:

Opinions Databases - Searchable database of Attorney General opinions back to 1979. Check out the Expert Search if you want a lot of searching options, including date limitations and subject searching.

If you know where the AG Opinions database for Mississippi can be found, please let me know. Or better yet, adopt Mississippi and flesh out its database list.

VOLUNTEER AND ORPHAN NEWS

This week the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project welcomed three new volunteers who have publicly claimed their pages:

New Jersey - Qraig de Groot
Vermont - Paul J McDonough
West Virginia - Bala Ganti

We are sad to announce the departure of Rebecca Troy-Horton, the volunteer for both Hawaii and Rhode Island. We really appreciated all of her efforts and wish her well in her new projects.

With the changes above, the current list of orphan states in need of adoption is:

District of Columbia
Hawaii
Indiana
Mississippi
Rhode Island
Texas

If you're interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details.

WIKI ACTIVITY

See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights:

DATABASES ADDED

CALIFORNIA (Joel Rane)

Reports, Publications, Papers, and Presentations of the California Energy Commission - The Energy Commission publishes between 250 and 500 reports, papers, fact sheets, technical briefs, and other publications each year. This database will locate reports that are available to download; all reports since 2005 are available. Reports published from December 1994 to 2005 are mostly available online as well and can be searched through this database.

ILLINOIS (Blaine Redemer)

Electronic Documents of Illinois - Search for full text Illinois state documents that have been deposited into the Illinos State Library's Electronic Documents of Illinois database. Documents can be searched by subject, issuing agency, or a website search (keyword). For current documents that may have been deposited within the last 30 days, search under "what's new."

VERMONT (Paul J McDonough)

Vermont ANR 250 Database - The Act 250 program provides a public, quasi-judicial process for reviewing and managing the environmental, social and fiscal consequences of major subdivisions and developments in Vermont. This database all relevant permit information related to projects, and is searchable by project number, agenda date, project name, project description, and town name.

WASHINGTON ( Marilyn Von Seggern)

HistoryMakers - A biographical database of Washington elected officials and activists. Entries include basic biographical information with a photo and links to other online information. The database covers the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, and representatives of the U.S. House and Senate and will continue to be expanded.

This database was also added to our Biographical Databases.

PRISONER LOCATER TOOLS

Joel Rane added an inmate locator for California. The Prisoner Locater Tools page now offers links to 36 State Inmate locaters. If you know of an online inmate locator service not on this list, please let us know!

DATABASES REMOVED

CALIFORNIA

Counting California - Data by and about California from Federal and state government.

VOLUNTEER AND ORPHAN NEWS

This week the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases welcomed FIVE new volunteers who have publicly claimed their pages and are already hard at work:

Joel Rane - California
Janice Wilson - Connecticut
Blaine Redemer - Illinois
Adrienne Walker - New Mexico
Barbara Bren - Wisconsin

Vermont is in the process of being adopted, leaving the following orphan pages waiting for a volunteer government documents specialist:

District of Columbia
Indiana
Mississippi
New Jersey
Texas
West Virginia

If you're interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details.

WIKI ACTIVITY

See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights:

DATABASES ADDED

California (Joel Rane)

Watershed Groups in California - This database, created by the University of California, Davis Information Center for the Environment, covers over 500 watershed groups in Davis. Keyword search can be performed for group name, county, or mission (e.g., "to protect and restore wild trout and steelhead"). Entries may include details such as membership information, data collection (and availability of data) by the group, contact information, and projects in which the group is involved.

Idaho (Beth Downing)

Idaho Outfitter Guide - Find a guide for your next outdoor adventure. Search for a specific guide by name or for any guide in the state by type of activity, hunting, fishing, boating, recreation, winter or all guided activities. Each separate form allows for more specific searching and allows limits to particular areas of the state.

Michigan (Michael McDonnell)

Michigan Summer Food Finder - The Department of Education's Summer Food Service Program web site allows users to find locations where school age children can obtain nutritious meals during school vacations when National School Lunch or School Breakfast Programs are not available.

New Mexico (Adrienne Walker)

Contracts - Searchable database for contracts in excess of $20,000 entered with the State of New Mexico.

Wisconsin (Barbara Bren)

Locate in Wisconsin - provided by the Wisconsin Economic Development Association and the State of Wisconsin Department of Commerce to facilitate searching for sites and buildings information for businesses seeking to relocate or expand in Wisconsin. Click on the search type, then on "Refine your search." (alternate site from Forward Wisconsin, powered by the LocationOne® Information System (LOIS))

DATABASES REMOVED

New Mexico

eIdea - provides access to Air Quality, Ground Water Quality, Solid Waste, Petroleum Storage Tank, Food Safety Program and Hazardous Waste information for individual facilities throughout the state.