Supreme Court reenactments with dogs: so wrong but so right!
John Oliver is doing great — and hilarious — journalistic work. In this segment, he not only takes on the serious issue of why the Supreme Court doesn’t allow video cameras during oral arguments (Scalia’s argument against cameras is just lame excuse given the way C-SPAN currently covers Congress), but gives other news outlets the […]
State Agency Databases Project Activity Report 10/12/2014
This past week saw significant changes to the following pages at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. (links are to revisions page, click on “page” tab to see regular page): Delaware – John A. Stevenson New Jersey – Stephanie Bartz South Dakota – Brenda Hemmelman Wyoming – Karen Kitchens Delaware saw significant reorganization in […]
GAO Report: Voter ID laws reduce turnout more among African American and younger voters
A new report just released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) entitled “ELECTIONS: Issues Related to State Voter Identification Laws” (GAO-14-634) found that requiring voters to have special ID in order to vote makes voter turnout go down and this disproportionally effects young and minority voters. And you wonder why republicans in states like Wisconsin, […]
Samantha Bee answers a govdocs reference question
Did you ever have one of those reference questions that involves a government-collected statistic that you just know must exist, but you cannot find? We all have. Samantha Bee of the Daily show looks at GAO and CDC documents and even the National Sheriff’s Association. She interviews Nate Silver! But, she discovers, some data do […]
CRL to Digitize Endangered Foreign Government Publications
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded the Center for Research Libraries funding to preserve and make available on the open web endangered government documentation from certain African and Persian Gulf region nations. The grant of $248,500 will enable digitization of official gazettes from those nations, which have been preserved over the past sixty years […]