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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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State Agency Databases Project: 2014 Statistics

At the beginning of each year, I (Daniel) compile yearly statistics for the pages of the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. Here are a few highlights from 2014. State Pages We had five states top 10,000 visits a year, led by Missouri with 22,069 visits. 1. Missouri  (Annie Moots)             […]

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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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