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The volunteers at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases have continued work during the past two weeks. VOLUNTEERS AND ORPHANS People have tentatively agreed to take Maryland and Minnesota and will hopefully officially claim their pages in the next two weeks. If these adoptions hold up, that will leave perpetual wallflower Rhode Island as the only state without a documents specialist to care for it. If Rhode Island interests you at all, check out our Volunteer Guide. If you can meet the basic responsibilities, send me an e-mail at danielcornwall@gmail.com. WIKI ACTIVITY For a full list of our last two week's activity, visit http://tinyurl.com/statedbs14d. Below are highlights of the work we've done together: DATABASES ADDED MICHIGAN (Michael McDonnell) Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program Online Database - The Michigan DEQ monitors contaminants in caged fish in order to identify sources of pollutants and areas of contaminant concentrations, edible portions of fish in order to develop fish eating advisories, and whole fish in order to track contaminant trends. You can search for each of these types of studies in various bodies of water in Michigan at this site. NEW YORK (Michael Tatonetti) New York State Physician Profile - Information about licensed physicians in New York State. Search by physician's name. Profiles contain the following information: Education, Practice Info., Legal Actions, Professional Activities, and Personal Statements. UTAH (Susanne Caro) Licensee Lookup & Verification System - Searchable by name, license number and profession. Currently, DOPL issues licenses in approximately 60 categories of licensure. Additionally, the majority of these license categories include several individual license classifications. For example, within the nursing profession, licenses can be obtained for an LPN, RN, CRNA, APRN, or CNM. WASHINGTON (Marilyn Von Seggern) AG Opinions - Subject and keyword access to the full text of Washington State Attorney General opinions from 1949 to present. A list by date and by topic is also provided. Continue reading →

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The volunteers at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases remained busy this past week. VOLUNTEERS AND ORPHANS This week we officially welcome Susanne Caro to the ranks of our document specialist volunteers. She has taken on the Utah page and has begun fixing links. With Susanne's arrival, we are left with these three states in need of adoption:

• Maryland
• Minnesota
• Rhode Island

If one of these states interests you, check out our Volunteer Guide. If you can meet the basic responsibilities, send me an e-mail at dnlcornwall AT Alaska DOT net. WIKI ACTIVITY For a full list of our last week's activity, visit http://tinyurl.com/statedbs. Below are highlights of the work we've done together: DATABASES ADDED ALASKA (Daniel Cornwall) Alaska's Digital Sandbox (Public View) - Educator resource list of files, plans, websites and other items likely to be of value in an Alaskan K-12 classroom. Materials compiled by multiple school districts. Searchable by subject, grade level, type of resource and by keyword. MICHIGAN (Michael McDonnell) Data Explorer- Search this site for employment and income statistics, short and long term forecasts of employment in various professions, and population estimates. NEW YORK (Michael Tatonetti) Environmental Conservation Databases - Access to a variety of databases and maps. Contains the following specialized searches:

• Database of Environmental Remediation Sites and Spill Incidents
• Current Ambient Air Quality Forecasts and Data
• Oil and Gas Well Database
• Searchable On-line Mining Database
• DEC Permit Applications Search (DART)
• Water Well Contractor Search
• Docket Management System
• Certified Wastewater Facility Operators
• Issued Title V Air Permits
• Draft Title V Air Permits
• Issued State Facility Air Permits
• Draft State Facility Air Permits
• Breeding Bird Atlas Databases

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The volunteers at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases remained busy this past week. VOLUNTEERS AND ORPHANS Utah has been tentatively adopted. Assuming all goes well, this would leave us with the following states in need of adoption:

• Maryland
• Minnesota
• Rhode Island

If one of these states interests you, check out our Volunteer Guide. If you can meet the basic responsibilities, send me an e-mail at dnlcornwall AT Alaska DOT net. WIKI ACTIVITY For a full list of our last week's activity, visit http://tinyurl.com/statedbs. Below are highlights of the work we've done together: DATABASES ADDED OHIO (Audrey Hall) Century Farms - There are more than 850 registered Century Farms (farms within the same family for at least 100 years) in Ohio. Get a list of all farms by county or use the drop down list to select a specific county. NEW JERSEY (Qraig de Groot) Search for Senior Centers - Search by county and program type, city and program type, or name of facility to find Senior Centers in New Jersey. NEW YORK (Michael Tatonetti) New York State Nursing Home Profile - Information about nursing homes and the quality of care they provide. Search by county, zip code, nursing home name or special services. TEXAS (Ann Ellis) Texas Agricultural Research Project Database - This database is maintained by Texas Tech University and is designed to enhance communication about agricultural research in Texas for other research institutions, private industries, and individuals. Users may search the database by title of research project, research institution, or research problem area. The database also provides a full-text search engine. Continue reading →

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The State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases is pleased to announce two new volunteeers:

• Michael Tatonetti, who is taking the New York page
• Jenn Zuccaro, who is taking the West Virginia page

Thanks to Michael and Jenn, we are down to these four orphan states with no one to care for them:

• Maryland
• Minnesota
• Rhode Island
• Utah

If one of these states interests you, check out our Volunteer Guide. If you can meet the basic responsibilities, send me an e-mail at dnlcornwall AT Alaska DOT net. WIKI ACTIVITY For a full list of our last week's activity, visit http://tinyurl.com/statedbs. Below are highlights of the work we've done together: DATABASES ADDED DELAWARE (John Stevenson) The Flora of Delaware Online Database - As of January 29, 2012, the database contains 2,274 species, subspecies, and varieties (taxa), of native (1,577) and non-native (697) vascular plants known to occur in the state of Delaware. OHIO (Audrey Hall) County Soil Surveys and Supplements - Click the desired county on the map for a soil survey, interim soil survey or soil survey supplement. It is recommended to use only the text included in the soil surveys. Official up-to-date tables and soil maps should be viewed or downloaded at the Soil Data Mart or via the Web Soil Survey. At the Soil Data Mart select the "generate reports" button to then select the desired tables. NEW YORK (Michael Tatonetti) Laws of New York - Database listing of the Laws of New York State. Searchable by title or phrase. Continue reading →

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Welcome to the first State Agency Databases activity report of 2012! We have a lot of activity to report from the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States Project. STATISTICS FOR 2011 - PARTIAL YEAR We started making note of project statistics in May 2011. This enables us to report partial year statistics (May - Dec 31) for our project pages. Here are a few highlights for 2011: Total visits to state database pages - 73,606 Total visits to subject based database listings - 10,325 Top five states by number of visits: Missouri 5592 Florida 3694 Alaska 3438 California 2786 Ohio 2437 Bottom five states by number of visits: New York 478 Vermont 470 West Virginia 397 Maine 383 Minnesota 307 Most popular subject page - Prisoner Locaters - 6,239. This is also the most popular page in the entire project. The full set of project statistics for our site can be found at http://tinyurl.com/StateAgencyDBstats2012 as a Google Spreadsheet. NEW ORPHAN STATES FOR 2012 As a result of the yearly page review procedure put in place last year, the following states have become available for adoption: Maryland Minnesota New York Rhode Island Utah West Virginia If adopting any of the above states interests you, please review our Volunteer Guide. If you think you can fulfill the basic responsibilities listed AND can start modifying your page within two weeks of receiving a wiki login, please e-mail me at danielcornwall@gmail.com. SUBJECT PAGE ACTIVITY Prisoner Locater Tools - An offender lookup tool for Utah was added to the page. OTHER WIKI ACTIVITY For a blow by blow list of changes to our project over the past 14 days, please see http://tinyurl.com/statedbs14d. Here are some highlights: DATABASES ADDED NEW MEXICO (Adrienne Walker) The Judicial Branch of New Mexico - This online case lookup is maintained by The New Mexico Courts. This database gives access to the lower court cases of the New Mexico District Court, Magistrate Court and Municipal Court data. Municipal court data is limited to criminal Domestic Violence and DWI historic convictions from September 1, 1991 onwards. Searches can be conducted by name, case number or DWI. NEW YORK (Orphan - Added while reformatting page) New York State Kosher Food Registry Search - Registry is searchable by product (type or name, packaged or unpackaged), by food establishment name, by store (name or location), by name of certifier. Records for products include brand, name, size and certifying agency. NORTH DAKOTA (Kathryn Thomas) State Document Depository - State Documents can be searched in the library catalog. Lists of recent arrivals can be viewed by agency name and then by document title. UTAH (Orphan - Added while reformatting page) Utah Burials Search - Database of people buried in Utah. May be searched by deceased name, dates of birth and death, and burial place (any, county, city/town, cemetary). Records contain name, birth date, death date, burial date, place of birth (when available), place of death, grave location, source (when available), comments, when available. Continue reading →

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