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#nlw14 FDLP Edition Day 4: Law Library for San Bernadino County
Today our Federal Depository Library themed celebration of National Library Week focuses on the 2008 winner of the Government Printing Office’s Library of the Year Award. Here’s the citation from the award page: Law Library for San Bernadino County Named 2008 Federal Depository Library of the Year The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce the Law Library for […]
California Supreme Court rules GIS files are public records
"The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that digital mapping files known as geographic information systems must be released under the state's public records law. "The decision could make it easier for media organizations, advocacy groups and others to obtain government GIS databases, rich collections of data that can be used to display and analyze multiple layers of geographical information."
- Digital mapping files are public records, state Supreme Court rules, By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times (July 8, 2013). Forty-seven of California's 58 counties already provide GIS parcel maps as public records for a nominal fee, said Dean Wallraff, an attorney for the Sierra Club. Los Angeles County charged the group less than $10 for a disk containing the files, he said. Monday's court ruling should compel Orange County to do the same.
California bill to release the state’s building codes online for free
Carl Malamud posted the following to BoingBoing today:
Assemblyman Brian Nestande of California has introduced Assembly Bill 292, which would open source the California Code of Regulations (including the Building Codes!!). The summary reads:[HT BoingBoing!] Continue reading"This bill would provide that the full text of the California Code of Regulations shall bear an open access creative commons attribution license, allowing any individual, at no cost, to use, distribute, and create derivative works based on the material for either commercial or noncommercial purposes."Public.Resource.Org has bulk data for the CCR and the public safety codes (known as Title 24) online, but this would all be way easier if we didn't have to double-key the building codes every 3 years and jump on the West CD-ROM every 2 months to extract the data. This move would lead to tremendous innovation, just like we've seen when the Federal Register went open source in bulk. The bill sponsor, Assemblyman Nestande, has a long background in public policy and IP. He was campaign manager for Sonny Bono's successful 1994 congressional campaign.
Index to reports published in the the Journals of the California Legislature 1905-1970
Here's a heads-up and a hat tip: Juri Statford from UC Davis has just published an Index to Reports Published in the Appendices to the Journals of the California Legislature 1905-1970. Congratulations Juri. This is a significant piece of work and will help librarians and the public get better access to historic California reports.
The California Legislature published reports in the Appendices to the Journals from 1849 to 1970. The Appendices include reports produced by California executive agencies as well as the California Legislature. In a few instances, the reports include work by the United States federal government or the University of California. This index provides references to over eighteen hundred reports published in the Appendices between 1905-1970. The reports cover a number of subjects including agriculture, state budget, banking, insurance, labor, education, social welfare, taxation, and water and natural resources. Bibliographic access to earlier reports from 1849 to 1904 is provided by the Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States, California 1849-1905 by Adelaide R. Hasse. (editor's note: the early CA and other state indexes are available in Hathitust) Stratford, Juri. (2012). Index to Reports Published in the Appendices to the Journals of the California Legislature 1905-1970 University Library, University of California, Davis.[posted with permission from Juri] Continue reading
Roundup of Government Info News and New Resources
Time once again for a selection of news and new resources that we hope will be an interest to the FGI community. The posts are from INFOdocket.com (@infofodocket) where we compile and post new items daily from a variety of resources. 1. “Obama Wants Better Digital Archive of Federal Records” + Full Text of Presidential Memorandum 2. Now Available: EPA Releases Formerly Confidential Chemical Information 3. San Antonio, TX: New Online Database: Historical Election Results are Digitized 4. Statistics Canada to Make All Online Data Free 5. UK Parliament: MPs to Investigate Library Closures 6. TR Center Officially Launches the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Collection 7. Idaho: Libraries to Adjust to New Internet Filtering Law 8. U.S.: National Archives Trust Fund To Sell Copies of the 1940 Census (Digital & Microfilm Versions) Available 9. All Thing Preservation: New NARA (National Archives) Twitter Stream & Tumblr Page 10. U.S. History: Senator George Mitchell Oral History Project Debuts Online 11.New Social Media Resource: “PolitickerUSA is the Best Way to Track Politicians’ Tweets” 12. Video Now Online of NARA’s “What’s Next in Social Media” Forum 13. Child Welfare Information Gateway — State Guides & Manuals Search 14. GPO Releases Its First App 15. New UN Database Available: Expert Panel Launches Tool to Fight Arbitrary Deprivation of Freedom 16. State of Minnesota Posts Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDD) 17. U.S. Government: USAID Launches New GeoCenter 18. Public Access to Indiana’s Historic Sanborn Maps Provides Treasure Trove of Information 19. California: More than 13,000 Online Maps Provide Historic View of State 20. UNESCO’s Global Open Access Portal Now Online Continue reading
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