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ORPHAN NEWS This week was relatively quiet at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project. The list of orphan states in need of adoption is unchanged from last week: Mississippi Rhode Island Texas It would be particularly nice to have Texas adopted out as an accurate annotated list of Texas databases would likely be used by people evaluating Governor Rick Perry's record now that he's running for President. If you're interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details. WIKI ACTIVITY See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights: DATABASES ADDED NEW MEXICO (Adrienne Walker) Licensed Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors - Search for licensed professional engineers and licensed professional surveyors by license number, last name, first name, city, state, zip, license type, branch or status (there is a key available on the search page to assist in the selection of license type, status or branch). New Mexico Coal Mines Query - This database displays information from the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. This site includes general data and statistics about active mines, notices of violation and water quality samples. LOUISIANA (Rita Franks) Restaurant Inspections - This state website provides access to restaurant inspections that include critical and non-critical violations, along with corrective actions that have been taken or are pending. DATABASES REMOVED MISSOURI (Annie Moots) Local Telephone Exchange Companies - Searchable by town/city. Continue reading →

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VOLUNTEER AND ORPHAN NEWS This week the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project welcomed three new volunteers who have publicly claimed their pages: District of Columbia - Adopted by Shirl Kennedy Indiana - Adopted by Kimberly Brown-Harden Hawaii - Adopted by Gwen Sinclair With the changes above, the current list of orphan states in need of adoption is: Mississippi Rhode Island Texas If you're interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details. WIKI ACTIVITY See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights: DATABASES ADDED DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (Shirl Kennedy) Food Facility Inspections Online - Search for and view inspection reports for facilities that serve or sell food to the public. Site says, "The majority of the permitted food service establishments in Washington, DC receive two routine unannounced food safety inspections per year." Database contains reports for the last three years. Reports are in PDF format. Shirl added seven other databases to the DC page. Check them out! NORTH CAROLINA (Jennifer Davison) NC Open Book : Transparency in NC State Government NC OpenBook is designed to show you where North Carolina's money goes. Allows searches for awardees of grants and contracts. Jennifer also appears to have added and reorganized other material on the North Carolina page. If you haven't visited recently, it would be worth it to go back. DATABASES REMOVED ALASKA (Daniel Cornwall) Alaska Consultant List - From the website "The Alaska Consultant List is intended to be a shortcut to finding Mining Engineers and Geologists that are properly licensed to perform consulting service business in the state of Alaska. The list provides names of persons by service who have requested to be listed. Pull down the list by service and click on the selected name to show contact information. The list is intended to be a service to the public; the Office of Economic Development makes no representation as to the competency of the persons or businesses." This resource is still live on the web, but we realized it did not fit the criteria for a searchable database. Since it is a useful resource, we moved it to our Not Database/Not State page at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Not_Databases. Continue reading →

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ORPHAN NEWS This week was relatively quiet at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project. Our list of orphan pages in need of adoption is unchanged from last week:

• District of Columbia
• Hawaii
• Indiana
• Mississippi
• Rhode Island
• Texas

If you're interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details. WIKI ACTIVITY Looking at our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs, you can see that Adrienne Walker, our volunteer for New Mexico, was primarily responsible for what activity we had this week. DATABASES ADDED NEW MEXICO (Adrienne Walker) Sex Offender Registry - This sex offender registry has been designed to provide information to the public concerning the location of sex offenders residing in the State of New Mexico. The Department of Public Safety (DPS) hopes this site will increase and promote public awareness. ---- Quiet isn't all bad. A lot of link fixing by many volunteers has been done in the past month or so. If things are quiet this week, it's probably a sign that if a page has a volunteer, you can count on the freshness of the links. For pages without a volunteer, like Mississippi, we have some broken links, like this one: Opinions Databases - Searchable database of Attorney General opinions back to 1979. Check out the Expert Search if you want a lot of searching options, including date limitations and subject searching. If you know where the AG Opinions database for Mississippi can be found, please let me know. Or better yet, adopt Mississippi and flesh out its database list. Continue reading →

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VOLUNTEER AND ORPHAN NEWS This week the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project welcomed three new volunteers who have publicly claimed their pages: New Jersey - Qraig de Groot Vermont - Paul J McDonough West Virginia - Bala Ganti We are sad to announce the departure of Rebecca Troy-Horton, the volunteer for both Hawaii and Rhode Island. We really appreciated all of her efforts and wish her well in her new projects. With the changes above, the current list of orphan states in need of adoption is: District of Columbia Hawaii Indiana Mississippi Rhode Island Texas If you're interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details. WIKI ACTIVITY See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights: DATABASES ADDED CALIFORNIA (Joel Rane) Reports, Publications, Papers, and Presentations of the California Energy Commission - The Energy Commission publishes between 250 and 500 reports, papers, fact sheets, technical briefs, and other publications each year. This database will locate reports that are available to download; all reports since 2005 are available. Reports published from December 1994 to 2005 are mostly available online as well and can be searched through this database. ILLINOIS (Blaine Redemer) Electronic Documents of Illinois - Search for full text Illinois state documents that have been deposited into the Illinos State Library's Electronic Documents of Illinois database. Documents can be searched by subject, issuing agency, or a website search (keyword). For current documents that may have been deposited within the last 30 days, search under "what's new." VERMONT (Paul J McDonough) Vermont ANR 250 Database - The Act 250 program provides a public, quasi-judicial process for reviewing and managing the environmental, social and fiscal consequences of major subdivisions and developments in Vermont. This database all relevant permit information related to projects, and is searchable by project number, agenda date, project name, project description, and town name. WASHINGTON ( Marilyn Von Seggern) HistoryMakers - A biographical database of Washington elected officials and activists. Entries include basic biographical information with a photo and links to other online information. The database covers the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, and representatives of the U.S. House and Senate and will continue to be expanded. This database was also added to our Biographical Databases. PRISONER LOCATER TOOLS Joel Rane added an inmate locator for California. The Prisoner Locater Tools page now offers links to 36 State Inmate locaters. If you know of an online inmate locator service not on this list, please let us know! DATABASES REMOVED CALIFORNIA Counting California - Data by and about California from Federal and state government. Continue reading →

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VOLUNTEER AND ORPHAN NEWS This week the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases welcomed FIVE new volunteers who have publicly claimed their pages and are already hard at work: Joel Rane - California Janice Wilson - Connecticut Blaine Redemer - Illinois Adrienne Walker - New Mexico Barbara Bren - Wisconsin Vermont is in the process of being adopted, leaving the following orphan pages waiting for a volunteer government documents specialist: District of Columbia Indiana Mississippi New Jersey Texas West Virginia If you're interested in one of the above states, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt one of the above states. If you adopt a state, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details. WIKI ACTIVITY See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights: DATABASES ADDED California (Joel Rane) Watershed Groups in California - This database, created by the University of California, Davis Information Center for the Environment, covers over 500 watershed groups in Davis. Keyword search can be performed for group name, county, or mission (e.g., "to protect and restore wild trout and steelhead"). Entries may include details such as membership information, data collection (and availability of data) by the group, contact information, and projects in which the group is involved. Idaho (Beth Downing) Idaho Outfitter Guide - Find a guide for your next outdoor adventure. Search for a specific guide by name or for any guide in the state by type of activity, hunting, fishing, boating, recreation, winter or all guided activities. Each separate form allows for more specific searching and allows limits to particular areas of the state. Michigan (Michael McDonnell) Michigan Summer Food Finder - The Department of Education's Summer Food Service Program web site allows users to find locations where school age children can obtain nutritious meals during school vacations when National School Lunch or School Breakfast Programs are not available. New Mexico (Adrienne Walker) Contracts - Searchable database for contracts in excess of $20,000 entered with the State of New Mexico. Wisconsin (Barbara Bren) Locate in Wisconsin - provided by the Wisconsin Economic Development Association and the State of Wisconsin Department of Commerce to facilitate searching for sites and buildings information for businesses seeking to relocate or expand in Wisconsin. Click on the search type, then on "Refine your search." (alternate site from Forward Wisconsin, powered by the LocationOne® Information System (LOIS)) DATABASES REMOVED New Mexico eIdea - provides access to Air Quality, Ground Water Quality, Solid Waste, Petroleum Storage Tank, Food Safety Program and Hazardous Waste information for individual facilities throughout the state. Continue reading →

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