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#nlw14 FDLP Edition Day 2: Johnson County Library

Today our Federal Depository Library themed celebration of National Library Week focuses on the 2010 winner of the Government Printing Office’s Library of the Year Award. Here’s the citation from the award page: Johnson County Library Named 2010 Federal Depository Library of the Year The Johnson County Library of Overland Park, Kansas was named the 2010 Federal Depository Library of the […]

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State Agency Databases Activity Report 4/13/2014

It was a typical week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases.   FEATURED DATABASE Today’s featured database is from Marilyn Von Seggern, who maintains the Washington page: Washington State Fiscal Information    http://www.fiscal.wa.gov/ – A state law passed in 2008 required creation of a website that would make state revenue and expenditure […]

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#nlw14 FDLP Edition Day 1: Newark, Olin and Buffalo

First up in our Federal Depository Library themed celebration of National Library Week are the 2012 winners of the Government Printing Office’s Library of the Year Award. Here’s the citation from the award page: 2012 Federal Depository Libraries of the Year For the first time, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) honored three extraordinary Federal […]

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This week in FGI blogging history: Jacobs & Jacobs interview; DSSOA; OpenSecrets goes OpenData; GovTrack

Borrowing from BoingBoing, one of our favorite blogs, we’re instituting a new series “this week in FGI blogging history” where we’ll go back in the FGI vault to see what we were writing about 1 year ago, 5 years ago, and 9 years ago (November will be our 10 year anniversary!). Enjoy and let us […]

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National Library Week – FDLP Edition #nlw2014

Happy National Library Week! April 13 – 19, 2014 is National Library Week (NLW), a time to celebrate and honor libraries. Because we at FGI celebrate Federal Depository Libraries as key links in preserving the nation’s information products and serving as guides to the awe-inspiring mass of publications and data the feds make available, we’ll spend […]

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