Check out the @RadReference anti-surveillance zine
Hey, check out the new, hot-off-the-presses Radical Reference anti-surveillance zine! It’s chock full of information to keep individuals and libraries safe in our ubiquitous surveillance world. It’s under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA license so feel free to print and hand them out in your library. Ever since the events of September 11th, something […]
2 upcoming events for docs librarians: CRL’s Leviathan & GODORT panel @ #GPODLC14
We just wanted to give everyone a heads-up about two upcoming events of import for documents librarians. This thursday and friday (april 24-25, 2014) in Chicago is “Leviathan,” the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Spring forum on government information. There will be much discussion and agenda-setting for CRL member libraries about how to continue to […]
State Agency Databases Activity Report 4/20/2014
It was a slow week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. SOME STATE DATA SETS AND APPS AVAILABLE FROM DATA.GOV While not in scope for our project, we wanted to note the presence of a States section at data.gov. This page links to state produced data sets, apps, state data […]
#nlw14 FLDP Edition Day 7: New Mexico State Library
We conclude our Federal Depository Library themed celebration of National Library Week with the 2005 winner of the Government Printing Office’s Library of the Year Award. Here’s the citation from the award page: New Mexico State Library Named 2005 Federal Depository Library of the Year The U.S. Government Printing Office is proud to present to New Mexico State Library the 2005 […]
#nlw14 FDLP Edition Day 6: Benton Harbor Public Library
Today our Federal Depository Library themed celebration of National Library Week focuses on the 2006 winner of the Government Printing Office’s Library of the Year Award. Here’s the citation from the award page: Benton Harbor Public Library Named 2006 Federal Depository Library of the Year The U.S. Government Printing Office has selected Michigan’s Benton Harbor Public Library as the 2006 Federal […]