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Warmest Year Ever
Document of the Day. According to NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), “The year 2014 was the warmest year across global land and ocean surfaces since records began in 1880.” NOAA National Climatic Data Center, State of the Climate: Global Analysis for Annual 2014, published online December 2014. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2014/13 This website has Maps and […]
Webinar on fugitive documents: notes and links
These are notes and links and resources mentioned in our webinar on fugitive government documents that Jim and I presented for the “Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian” webinar series: “Community-Based Digital Collection Development of Born-Digital Government Information” [link to recording of webinar] by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs. (Jan. 12, 2015). […]
Carl Malamud proposes a National Day of PACER Protest
Carl Malamud of public.resource.org and champion of freeing government information, has posted a proposal for “Law Day” — a national day of protest against PACER policies. Yo! Your Honor! A Response to the Chief Justice Carl Malamud “A National Strategy of Litigation, Supplication, and Agitation”. Boing Boing (Jan 11, 2015). May 1 Proposed as a […]
NOAA resources for teaching climate
NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, maintains the website Climate.gov as a source of timely and authoritative scientific data and information about climate. The goal of the site is “to promote public understanding of climate science and climate-related events, to make our data products and services easy to access and use, to provide climate-related […]
New Digital Posters from NASA
Most long-time govdocs librarians are fond of government produced posters. They are unique and useful in many ways. (If you’re unfamiliar with government posters, have a look at the Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection at the Library of Congress.) Now NASA has created posters it calls an Exoplanet Travel Series based on the new […]
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