State Agency Databases Project: 2014 Statistics
At the beginning of each year, I (Daniel) compile yearly statistics for the pages of the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. Here are a few highlights from 2014. State Pages We had five states top 10,000 visits a year, led by Missouri with 22,069 visits. 1. Missouri (Annie Moots) […]
NOAA resources for teaching climate
NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, maintains the website Climate.gov as a source of timely and authoritative scientific data and information about climate. The goal of the site is “to promote public understanding of climate science and climate-related events, to make our data products and services easy to access and use, to provide climate-related […]
New Digital Posters from NASA
Most long-time govdocs librarians are fond of government produced posters. They are unique and useful in many ways. (If you’re unfamiliar with government posters, have a look at the Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection at the Library of Congress.) Now NASA has created posters it calls an Exoplanet Travel Series based on the new […]
New features at Census
The Census Burear reports that it has improved its search engine and is providing a new version of “QuickFacts.” Improving Your Access to U.S. Census Bureau Data: Two New Features on Census.gov, John H. Thompson. U.S. Census Bureau. Director’s Blog (January 6, 2015). Recently, we rolled out two exciting new features on Census.gov — a […]
Webinar on “fugitive” documents, January 12. Register Now!
We hope you will join FGI folks James R. Jacobs and James A. Jacobs for a “Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian” webinar on Monday, January 12 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the topic of “fugitive” documents! Please RSVP for the Session by January 12 at 10:00 am using this link: […]