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State Agency Databases Activity Report July 31, 2011
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
State Agency Databases Activity Report: 7/24/2011
VOLUNTEER AND ORPHAN NEWS This week the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States Project welcomed Julie Huskey as our latest volunteer documents specialist. Julie has adopted Tennessee and has fixed a number of broken links. That leaves the following pages as orphans waiting for a volunteer government documents specialist: Connecticut District of Columbia Illinois Indiana Mississippi New Jersey New Mexico Texas Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin 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 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: SUBJECT PAGES We have several "subject focused" pages of state agency databases. We moved this list to the front project page. In additon, the Biographical Databases page has been updated. We fixed the Colorado link and added resources from Florida, Indiana, and North Dakota. If you spot problems with any of the other "subject focused" pages, please let me know. Preferably with new links to replace broken ones. REFORMATTING The State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States Project simply wouldn't be viable without our volunteers. So we've reformatted all the state pages so that the volunteer name and contact information stands at the top of the page above the table of contents. DATABASES ADDED Kentucky (Glen McAninch) Kentucky Financial Incentives Project Database - From the web site, "is a searchable database of all projects approved for incentives by either the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA) or the Bluegrass State Skills Corporation (BSSC), which are active as of January 1, 2008 through the present. Missouri (Annie Moots) Active Missing Persons Map - Click on a county to see a list of missing persons along with details about them. Tennessee (Julie Huskey) License Verification - From the website, "The Tennessee Health Related Board's website verification system is the official licensure verification site of the Health Related Boards. The site contains data obtained from primary (original) sources and is updated daily" Washington (Marilyn Von Seggern) Cleanup Site Search - A searchable inventory of sites currently being investigated, cleaned up, or that have already completed the cleanup process. Sites can be searched by ID number, name, and location (address, city, county or zip code). DATABASES REMOVED Missouri (Annie Moots) Uniform Crime Reporting Statistical Analysis - Searchable by time frame, year, type of report, and geographical area. Continue reading
State Agency Databases Activity Report 7/17/2011
VOLUNTEER AND ORPHAN NEWS This week the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project welcomed Brenda Hemmelman as our latest volunteer documents specialist. Brenda has taken over the care and feeding of the South Dakota project page. Brenda has not only fixed all of the broken links on the South Dakota page, but has also added a number of new databases including the Cemetery Record Search, which is considered to be a great resource for pre 1940s burials. In other volunteer news, we are currently in discussions with a few people over the future of the California page and we hope to have it adopted out in the next week. That leaves the following pages as orphans waiting for a volunteer government documents specialist: Connecticut District of Columbia Illinois Indiana Mississippi New Jersey New Mexico Tennessee Texas Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin 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. 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: Nebraska - Extensive link fixing. DATABASES ADDED Arkansas State Vehicle Inventory Search - Searchable by agency, vehicle type, plate number, and most common reported use. Delaware Delaware Environmental Navigator (DEN) - "Will allow the public to view all facility information, violations, enforcement actions and monitoring results pertaining to Air Quality, Waste Water, Water Supply, Hazardous Waste, Hazardous Waste Annual Reports, Solid Waste, Contaminated Site Cleanup, Underground Tanks and Vapor Recovery, Above Ground Tanks, Septic Permits, Wetlands, Ambient Water Monitoring Data and Corrective Action Sites." Nebraska Nebraska Memories - Images of Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials. Continue reading
State Agency Databases Activity Report 7/10/2011
Activity continues at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project. See a blow by blow list of changes from the previous seven days at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs. Some highlights from this week are: DATABASES ADDED Arkansas Licensed Athletic Trainer Search - Searchable database of licensed athletic trainers, by first name and last name. Connecticut Arthropod (i.e. bugs) Management Database - Intended for commercial plant growers, this database "allows you to search for insects and mites that are pests on trees, shrubs and other plants in the landscape, the nursery or Christmas tree farm." Searchable by damage type, pest and plant. One of each, plus a "profession" must be selected to ensure a successful search. Louisiana Confederate Pension Applications Index Database - This database consists of alphabetically arranged pensions granted from 1898 for veterans and widows. The pensions may include service information, occupation, place of residence, and number of children. The collection also contains a few applications for individuals other than veterans or widows that were not granted. This particular database was also added to our Official Records Databases page. South Carolina Orders - The database of Orders of the Public Service Commission is being expanded to cover orders and rate requests from 1990 to present. Searches can be by keyword, with filtering by industry. Washington Classics in Washington History - A searchable database of more than 160 scanned Washington history publications in 14 subject categories such as geography, territorial and state government, exploration and early travel, and women's stories. DATABASES REMOVED Arkansas Parenting Program Directory - Basic information about existing parent education programs in Arkansas. Directory is searchable by county and keyword. ---- In addition to the changes above, the SADATFS Volunteer Guide was updated with some style guidelines and a clarification was made to the "What is a Database?" page. We continue to need people to adopt the following orphan state pages: California Connecticut - Links fixed this week through govdoc-l crowdsourcing! District of Columbia Illinois Indiana Mississippi New Jersey New Mexico South Dakota Tennessee Texas Vermont West Virginia Wisconsin Continue reading
Lost Docs Report/Update on July-October, 2009 Fugitive Documents
Report/Update In addition to our usual monthly report, we at the Lost Docs Blog will from time to time revisit, check, and update posted document receipts that at the time of their corresponding monthly report were still classed as fugitives. The following report focuses on the receipts posted from July-October 2009, the beginning of the Lost Docs Blog project. Of the 46 reported fugitive documents posted July-October 2009, 19 (41.3%) have been cataloged, 5 of these since July-October 2009; 27 (58.6%) documents remain fugitives, as of July 1, 2011. We are appreciative of those records that have been created. For more information visit the Lost Docs Blog at http://lostdocs.freegovinfo.info/. To view a list of cataloged titles visit the spreadsheet of documents at https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?hl=en&key=tl4VYlDzjJMGqw-3WLAYA1g&hl=en#gid=0 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. Continue reading
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