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Lost Docs Report/Update on November-December 2009 Fugitive Documents
Report/Update 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 from November-December 2009. Of the 149 fugitive document receipts posted November-December 2009, 49 (33%) of the titles have had records added to the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP), 26 of these have been added since the November and December 2009 monthly reports. Three of the cataloged titles had not been assigned a PURL (Persistent Uniform Resource Locator) so we also marked these as "Preservation Needed". While the low percentage of items cataloged is disappointing, we are appreciative of those records that have been created and added to the CGP. A list of cataloged items, based on the posted receipts, can be viewed at https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjA1ChZ8rDu5dGw0VllsRHpqSk1HcXctM1dMQVlBMWc&hl=en or visit the Lost Docs Project Blog and view the "found" items with November-December 2009 dates. We have highlighted a few of the document titles cataloged since the 2009 monthly reports, they are listed below. Read you Loud and Clear!: The Story of NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network (EL) Mineral Investigations in the Bristol Bay Mining District Study Area, Southwest Alaska (EL) Nuestros hijos, nuestra responsabilidad (EL) Behind International Rankings of Infant Mortality: How the United States Compares with Europe (EL) 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: 1.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." 2.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. 3.Post the blog link to your website or share it on Facebook, Twitter, or other social media. 4.Subscribe to the blog feed at lostdocs.freegovinfo.info/feed/ or better yet incorporate the feed into your website or blog. Lost Docs Project Blog Team Meredith Johnston Jeffrey Hartsell-Gundy lostdocs@freegovinfo.info Continue reading
State Agency Databases Activity Report: 8/21/2011
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
State Agency Databases Activity Report: 8/14/2011
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:
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 readingState Agency Databases Activity Report 8/7/2011
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
July 2011 Lost Docs Report and Appeal
REPORT In July 2011, we received and posted 16 reports to GPO from librarians reporting documents that had seemingly fallen through the cracks of the cataloging process. The reports were originally sent to GPO between May and July 2011. This month of the 16 reported documents posted by us, 3 (18%) have been cataloged and are in the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP) as of this writing. See these records for yourself by visiting lostdocs.freegovinfo.info/category/found/ and looking at the postings with July 2011 dates. We are appreciative of these new records. From July, 13 items remain listed as "fugitive documents." No documents reported to GPO appeared to already have public CGP records. So there were no "false positives" for the month. Two of the 3 cataloged documents had not been assigned a PURL. So these were classed "found" but with "preservation needed." Please remember that our listing of "fugitive documents" reports is only as complete as you make it, since GPO does not yet publish any statistics we're aware of on fugitive documents/document discovery. 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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