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: […]
Twenty Years of THOMAS
Andrew Weber, Legislative Information Systems Manager at the Law Library of Congress, writes about the history of THOMAS, which is now Congress.gov. Twenty Years of THOMAS, by Andrew Weber, In Custodia Legis, blog of the Law Library of Congress (January 5, 2015).
How Congress’s dysfunction has degraded the CRS
Here is a fascinating story about “How Congress’s dysfunction has degraded its own in-house think tank,” told by Kevin Kosar, an analyst who quit his job last October as a researcher at the Congressional Research Service. Kosar, Kevin R. 2015. Why I Quit the Congressional Research Service. Washington Monthly (January/February 2015). Self-inflating, score-settling tell-alls are […]