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State Agency Databases Activity Report March 30, 1014

It was a busy week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. NO MORE ORPHANS! In the past week, Mississippi was adopted by Aimee Slater of Brooklyn College and Virginia was adopted by Louise Buckley of University of New Hampshire. In the past we have had requests for pages on US […]

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State Agency Databases Activity Report March 23, 2014

It was an active week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. Activity was focused on fixing links as part of our quarterly link checking process. NEW VOLUNTEERS I’m happy to announce that Liz Paulus is returning as the Oregon volunteer. She will be leading a small group of Oregon librarians […]

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Your chance to tell White House your thoughts on big data, privacy and surveillance

Here’s an opportunity to let the White House know your opinions on data gathering, transforming technologies and privacy issues. ============== From: The White House [info@messages.whitehouse.gov] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 2:00 PM Subject: The President’s review of big data and privacy   Friday, March 21, 2014 The President’s review of big data and privacy In January, President […]

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Best. Titles. Ever. Better with Tumblr!

A few weeks ago I (Daniel) was approached by Aimee Slater, a government documents reference assistant with the Brooklyn College Library. She and her boss really enjoyed the Best. Titles Ever. page and Flickr photo group that were populated with funny, bizarre and intriguing titles found by documents librarians around the country. Aimee asked if […]

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State Agency Databases Project Activity Report: 3/16/2014

There is a lot of activity to report at the  State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. Partly because I took at three week reporting break, but mostly because our volunteers have been extremely busy fixing links and adding new databases. NEW VOLUNTEER As promised, Rhode Island has been adopted! Many thanks to Stacy R. Williams […]

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