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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). […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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New features at Census

The Census Burear reports that it has improved its search engine and is providing a new version of “QuickFacts.” Improving Your Access to U.S. Census Bureau Data: Two New Features on Census.gov, John H. Thompson. U.S. Census Bureau. Director’s Blog (January 6, 2015). Recently, we rolled out two exciting new features on Census.gov — a […]

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