GISIG’s Docs o’ the Day: Keystone XL pipeline Project
reposted from gov-info.tumblr.com On May 4, 2012, the Department of State received a new application from TransCanada Corp. for a proposed pipeline [The Keystone XL] that would run from the Canadian border to connect to a pipeline in Steele City, Nebraska. The Department’s responsibility, under Executive Order 13337, is to determine if granting a permit […]
The Post Office as Bank for the Unserved
Doc of the day: Providing Non-Bank Financial Services for the Underserved, U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Report Number:RARC-WP-14-007 (January 27, 2014) [pdf. 33 pages]. Millions of Americans do not have a bank account, or use costly services like payday loans and check cashing exchanges just to make ends meet. The entire underserved population […]
State Agency Databases Activity Report 2/2/2014
The last two weeks have been mostly quiet at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. I blame ALA Midwinter and the start of the Spring Semester in many places. FEATURED DATABASE Today’s featured database was provided by Jennifer Robble and Ellen Richardson, our volunteers for Massachusetts: Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile (MassCHIP) (http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/researcher/community-health/masschip/) Provides community level […]
QOTD: Barbara Fister
Quote of the day: Barbara Fister: In an age of austerity, survival is the name of the game, but it’s a rigged game and a distraction from what we’re here for. It’s how we ended up with a precarious faculty, a rented library, and indentured students. We need to focus further out, more broadly on […]
Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine now includes auto-nominate feature
I’m a long-time supporter of the Internet Archive and user of the IA’s wayback machine. I’ve even got the wayback machine bookmarklet installed on all of my browsers — and highly recommend all of our readers doing so as well! I just went to check the wayback machine for a site that was 404 and […]