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Update Report on April-May 2010 Lost Docs
Happy Holidays from the Lost Docs Team- In addition to our usual monthly report, we at the Lost Docs Project Blog will from time to time revisit, check, and update posted document receipts that at the time of their corresponding monthly reports were still classed as fugitives. The following report focuses on the receipts posted April-May, 2010. Report/Update Of the 54 fugitive document titles from receipts posted April-May, 2010, 37(69%) of the titles have had records added to the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP), as of this report. 17(31%) remain fugitives. We are appreciative of those records that have been created and added to the CGP. Found documents can be viewed by looking at the blog posts with April and May, 2010 dates at http://lostdocs.freegovinfo.info/category/found/ and/or view a listing by visiting https://sites.google.com/site/founddocslisting/ Cataloging times 39% of the items cataloged from the April and May 2010 posted receipts were cataloged between 50 and 100 days. A more detailed breakdown is provided below. Note: 38 items are represented below, as one of the receipts was for both the electronic and print versions of an item/title. Both formats have now been cataloged. less than or equal to 15 days 7(18%) >15 days but less than or equal to 50 days 2(5%) >50 days but less than or equal to 100 days 15(39%) >100 days but less than or equal to 200 days 7(18%) >400 days but less than or equal to 500 days 7(18%) If you report a fugitive document to GPO, please send your e-mailed receipt to lostdocs@freegovinfo.info. We welcome any item reported to GPO in the past month. It is best if you can send us the receipt the same day you receive it from GPO. Some e-mail programs will support auto-forwarding. If so, please consider autoforwarding items where the subject contains "lostdocs submission." Continue reading
State Agency Databases Activity Report 12/18/2011
Welcome to the last State Agency Databases Activity Report for 2011. As this report is written on Sundays, I'll be taking a break for Christmas and New Year's. If you celebrate Christmas I wish you a Merry Christmas, otherwise I wish you a great holiday season and hope you have a happy and informative 2012. With our December link checking in full swing, this past week was quite busy at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. SUBJECT PAGE ACTIVITY Health Practitioner Databases (Lynn McClelland) With the addition of Maryland and New Mexico, Lynn McClelland reports that she has posted information on various kinds of health practitioners for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. We hope that you will explore and share this page far and wide. If the Health Practitioner Databases page inspires you to create a subject page of your own, please let me know. OTHER WIKI ACTIVITY See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the wiki. Here are a few highlights: DATABASES ADDED CALIFORNIA (Joel Rane) Online Documents Search Form - Decisions, resolutions, and rulings signed by the [Public Utilities] Commission are available online starting in July 2000, searchable by title, the type of document, date, proceeding number or the type of utility. DELAWARE (John A. Stevenson) DOE School Locator - Search for schools associated with an address or housing development. GEORGIA (Chris Sharpe) [Supreme Court] Computerized Docketing System and Case Types - Search by case number,attorney's name, or style. NEW MEXICO (Adrienne Walker) Child Care Search - This database provides a customized, detailed search based around your needs. Searches can be performed by important criteria such as location, age of child, days/hours of care, and others is maintained by Mexico Kids and lists child care providers that are licensed or registered by recognized regulatory agencies in the state of New Mexico. The online search requires registration to log in. OTHER NEWS After January 1, 2012, I will be examining pages to see the last time a volunteer touched them. Any pages that haven't been edited since January 1, 2011 will be reassigned. Continue reading
State Agency Databases Activity Report 12/11/2011
Our volunteers remain active and productive at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. We are in the midst of our December link checking activity. SUBJECT PAGE ACTIVITY Health Practitioner Databases (Lynn McClelland) With the addition of NV and ND. Lynn now has 46 states plus the District of Columbia represented on this page. Significant new information has been added to the Minnesota and North Carolina entries, among others. OTHER WIKI ACTIVITY See our last seven days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs for a blow by blow description of changes to the wiki. Here are a few highlights: DATABASES ADDED KENTUCKY (Glen Mcaninch) Chiropractor Search - You can search the online database of providers by last name, license number, city or county. LOUISIANA (Rita Franks) Central Gaming Registry - From the website, "Louisiana Revised Statutes 27:15 (B)(3) requires the Louisiana Gaming Control Board to provide a central registry of all gaming operators licensed under the provisions of various Louisiana gaming acts. Under this statute the central gaming registry is to include the name and address of all licensees, the address of any location where authorized gaming takes place and the name and address of any person who owns or controls more than 5% interest in these establishments. Data can be accessed from the left side of the Central Gaming Registry Home Page screen and is listed in several different categories. + Expand will provide all data for the individual or business accessed. (Arrow) Previous and (Arrow) Next will move you forward and back through the database. Clicking on an entry will provide detailed information on the entry. Quarterly Listings and Ownership Charts are also accessed from the left side of the Home page. Quarterly Listings are stored by year." WYOMING (Karen Kitchens) Wyoming Boards and Commissions - This database contains a list of statutory requirements and a brief description of purpose for each State of Wyoming board and commission. Also contains a list of all board or commission members. OTHER NEWS After January 1, 2012, I will be examining pages to see the last time a volunteer touched them. Any pages that haven't been edited since January 1, 2011 will be reassigned. Continue reading
State Agency Databases Activity Report 12/4/2011
Our volunteers remain active and productive at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. SUBJECT PAGE ACTIVITY Health Practitioner Databases (Lynn McClelland) With the addition of ID, KY, LA, MA, MN and NH. Lynn now has 44 states plus the District of Columbia represented on this page. This page has gotten so comprehensive, the wiki made Lynn split the page in two. The original page now covers states A-M and the second page covers states N-Z. This is the kind of problem I love to have as project coordinator. OTHER WIKI ACTIVITY See our last 14 days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs14d for a blow by blow description of changes to the wiki. Here are a few highlights: DATABASES ADDED ALASKA (Daniel Cornwall) Alaska Film Locations Database - Operated by Reel Scout on behalf of the Alaska Film Office. Searchable by keyword or by category/subcategory, location name, region, town or distance with zip code. Records have name of location, nearest community, id code, photos, description and general notes. CALIFORNIA (JOEL RANE) California Information File - This database contains more than 50,000 references to California people, places, events, and subjects. GEORGIA (Chris Sharpe) Georgia Procurement Registry - Able to search state governments, municipalities, county governments, and K-12 school districts NORTH CAROLINA (Jennifer Davison) North Carolina Board of Nursing - Database of North Carolina licensed RNs and LPNs. OTHER NEWS Mid-December marks our next mass link check update. This should be less extensive than our link changes in September now that our volunteers have committed to checking pages at least quarterly. Some volunteers link check once a month. Also, after January 1, 2012, I will be examining pages to see the last time a volunteer touched them. Any pages that haven't been edited since January 1, 2011 will be reassigned. New for 2012, we will be changing our practice of permitting state listings where it is simply one link to a page of databases maintained by a state agency such as the case for New York. This change is intended to allow the inclusion of search results for that state in the wiki search. The libraries involved will be individually notified before the end of the year. Continue reading
November 2011 Lost Docs Report and Appeal
REPORT For November, we posted 6 reports from librarians to GPO reporting documents that had seemingly fallen through the cracks of the cataloging process. The reports were originally sent to GPO during November 2011. This month, of the 6 reported documents posted by us, one has been cataloged for the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP), and 5 remain listed as "fugitive documents." To find out more about these fugitive titles visit the Lost Docs Project Blog at lostdocs.freegovinfo.info and view those posts with November 2011 dates. The one cataloged title is… Legislative proposals to determine the future role of FHA, RHS, and GNMA in the single- and multi-family mortgage markets [electronic resource] : hearing before the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing, and Community Opportunity of the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, May 25, 2011. Y 4.F 49/20:112-32 http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo14993 Please remember that our listing of "fugitive documents" reports is only as complete as you make it. APPEAL If you like the concept of a public listing of fugitive documents reported to GPO, there are a number of easy ways to help us:
- If you report a fugitive document to GPO, send your e-mailed receipt to lostdocs@freegovinfo.info. We welcome any item reported to GPO in the past month. It is best if you can send us the receipt the same day you get it from GPO. Some e-mail programs will support auto-forwarding. If so, please consider autoforwarding items where the subject contains "lostdocs submission."
- Visit the blog at lostdocs.freegovinfo.info and comment on the listed items. Comments can include -- Did your library receive the item? Did you find it in the CGP? Do you think the item is out of scope for the CGP? Did you report the item as well and so on.
- Post the blog link to your website or share it on Facebook, Twitter, or other social media.
- Subscribe to the blog feed at lostdocs.freegovinfo.info/feed/ or better yet incorporate the feed into your website or blog.
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