(HI) Business and cultural history of Warner Brothers 1925-1950
I am writing a business and cultural history of Warner Bros with emphasis on the period 1925-1950 when the Warner brothers owned and managed the company. An important element in the Warner Bros. story is the role federal antitrust suits played in the company's evolution. Many of the Senate and House hearings investigating FTC and Justice Department allegations about restraint of trade by the Hollywood oligopoly were available to me on microfiche at the University of Hawaii. Gwen Sinclair, head of the UH documents division, introduced me to the CIS files and instructed me how to use Lexis-Nexis to locate the documents relavant to my study. -- non-affiliated writer, researcher, user Continue reading
(HI) Doing the hula in Alaska or searching for chemical weapons
The place to go is your local Government Documents collection. Luckily, when I was asked to find out why a river in Alaska is named the Hulah ula River, I already knew about the great resources in the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Government Documents collection. I looked for publications on Alaska place names and hit several useful sources right away. I knew about because I'd previously searched there for documents about U.S. stocks of chemical weapons left in the Pacific on Guam Island at the end of World War II. I was part of a Hawaii team with a contract to help the Government of Guam determine what chemicals were still on the island, if any. The super helpful librarians at Gov Docs helped me find declassified reports, journal articles, histories of the war, congressional hearings, reports to the United Nations, post-war Governors, and much more. They also showed me several data bases I could access and how to work the printed index systems. As a bonus they helped me find resources in off Oahu libraries and more. Continue reading
FDLP Success Stories
Below are Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) success stories submitted to FGI. These stories are indicative of the importance of government information to library users and the continuing need for the FDLP in providing access to and preservation of government information. If you'd like to submit a government information success story, please go to the Success story form. Continue reading
EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced its New Legal Guide for Bloggers. This document informs bloggers of their legal rights including libel law, copyright law, and political advocacy. Continue reading
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) restores documents to their library
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is restoring public access to more than 70,000 additional documents after reviewing them for security sensitivity. The documents will be available NRC's on-line public library, ADAMS. NRC press release here Continue reading
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