FRUS now available as e-books
Selected volumes of the eminent State Department series, Foreign Relations of the United States, are now available as e-books for reading on devices such as the Kindle and Nook.
- E-Books Initiative, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. The Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the release of its Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series in a new e-book format that is readable on popular electronic devices such as the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad. The e-book edition combines many of the benefits of print and web publications in a new form that is portable and extremely convenient. During the pilot phase of the FRUS e-book initiative, five selected FRUS volumes are available here. The public is invited to download the new e-books and provide feedback to help improve the FRUS e-book edition. At the conclusion of the pilot phase later this year, the Office will work to offer e-book versions of many more FRUS volumes both through the Office website and on a wide array of e-bookstores. The Office will continue to expand and enhance its e-book offerings, as part of the ongoing FRUS digitization effort.
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XIX, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1967.
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume X, Vietnam, January 1973–July 1975.
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXIV, Middle East Region and Arabian Peninsula, 1969–1972; Jordan, September 1970.
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXXII, SALT I, 1969–1972.
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–12, Documents on East and Southeast Asia, 1973–1976.
A Roundup of Recent Government Info News and New Resources
More news and new resources via INFOdocket.com. 1. White House Launches Ethics.gov 2. USDA: Consumers to Receive Timely Food Safety Alerts Through New State Twitter Feeds 3. A Law Classification Scheme as Linked Data? 4. Access GAO Reports and Legal Decisions via New App for iOS (Free) 5. National Broadband Map Updated, New Data Added 6. United Nations Releases 2012 E-Government Survey (Full Text), Country Rankings Updated 7. Compare Country Statistics With New United Nations CountryStats iOS App (Free) 8. UNESCO Releases World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education (Full Text, Free) 9. New Online Database from NIH: Genetic Testing Registry, Video Tutorials Available 10. Open Data: DOE Data Explorer Now Searches Individual Datasets 11. Archivist of the United States Appoints New Director of Presidential Libraries Continue reading
Public Printer names 2012 members of Depository Library Council #FDLP
Hot off the presses! Congratulations to Steve Beleu, Chris Brown, Marie Concannon, Rosemary LaSala, and Larry Romans who've just been named to Depository Library Council!. It's hard work, but, speaking as an outgoing Councilor (and outgoing Chair!), it's an extremely rewarding experience. Good luck new Councilors!! Acting Public Printer Names New Members to Depository Library Council
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 6, 2012 No. 12-15 MEDIA CONTACT: GARY SOMERSET 202.512.1957, 202.355.3997 cell gsomerset@gpo.gov ACTING PUBLIC PRINTER NAMES NEW MEMBERS TO DEPOSITORY LIBRARY COUNCIL WASHINGTON-Acting Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooks is pleased to announce the appointment of five new members to the Depository Library Council (DLC). The Council, composed of 15 members each of whom serve three year terms, advises the Public Printer on policy matters relating to the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The FDLP, which traces its roots to 1813, provides access across America to the published information of all three Branches of the United States Government through partnerships with more than 1,200 libraries ranging from public libraries to research universities. "I am very pleased to appoint these five librarians to the Depository Library Council. They are all proven leaders in the depository community and their experience and expertise will be invaluable as the Council advises me on the issues facing the Federal Depository Library Program," says Acting Public Printer Davita Vance-Cooks. The five new DLC members for the June 1, 2012 - May 31, 2015 term are: Steve Beleu is one of Oklahoma's two Regional Librarians for U.S. Government Information, as well as the Director of the Oklahoma State Data Center Coordinating Agency. Since 2003, Beleu has conducted over 243 workshops on several topics for the library community in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri. These efforts helped his library earn the Depository Library of the Year award in 2009. Beleu is currently working with Oklahoma's four Tribal Colleges to introduce Federal Government Web sites to their faculty and staff. Christopher Brown is the Reference/Government Documents Librarian at University of Denver's Penrose Library. Brown has published and presented extensively about matters related to online Government information. His contributions to the FDLP include new ideas involving tracking online usage, adding URLs to older documents, and providing more granular statistics for PURL clickthroughs from local online public access catalogs and Web sites. Marie Concannon is the Government Documents Regional Coordinator at University of Missouri (Columbia)'s Elmer Ellis Library. Concannon is a strong advocate for promoting the FDLP and for preserving historic documents, both digital and tangible. Concannon is active in several national and local library organizations, including the American Library Association (ALA), the Missouri Library Association (MLA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and the Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT). Rosemary LaSala is the Reference/ Government Collections Librarian at St. John's University Rittenberg Law Library in Jamaica, New York. She is the current president of the Government Information Roundtable (GIRT), and a past chair of The Government Documents Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). LaSala was the recipient of the 2008 Mildred Lowe Award given by the New York Library Association Government Information Roundtable in recognition of her outstanding contributions to Government Documents Librarianship. Larry Romans is Head of Government Information and Media Services at Vanderbilt University's Central Library in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been a leader in the depository community for many years, contributing numerous presentations and publications to the field, and actively participating in many professional associations. Romans has been a member of ALA's governing Council since 1992, served on the ALA Executive Board from 2007-2010, and served as chair of ALA/GODORT. He won the 1995 ProQuest Documents to the People Award and the 2008 James Bennett Childs Award for lifetime and significant contribution to the field of documents librarianship.Continue reading
State Agency Databases Activity Report 3/4/2012
The volunteers at the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases have continued work during the past two weeks. VOLUNTEERS AND ORPHANS People have tentatively agreed to take Maryland and Minnesota and will hopefully officially claim their pages in the next two weeks. If these adoptions hold up, that will leave perpetual wallflower Rhode Island as the only state without a documents specialist to care for it. If Rhode Island interests you at all, check out our Volunteer Guide. If you can meet the basic responsibilities, send me an e-mail at danielcornwall@gmail.com. WIKI ACTIVITY For a full list of our last two week's activity, visit http://tinyurl.com/statedbs14d. Below are highlights of the work we've done together: DATABASES ADDED MICHIGAN (Michael McDonnell) Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program Online Database - The Michigan DEQ monitors contaminants in caged fish in order to identify sources of pollutants and areas of contaminant concentrations, edible portions of fish in order to develop fish eating advisories, and whole fish in order to track contaminant trends. You can search for each of these types of studies in various bodies of water in Michigan at this site. NEW YORK (Michael Tatonetti) New York State Physician Profile - Information about licensed physicians in New York State. Search by physician's name. Profiles contain the following information: Education, Practice Info., Legal Actions, Professional Activities, and Personal Statements. UTAH (Susanne Caro) Licensee Lookup & Verification System - Searchable by name, license number and profession. Currently, DOPL issues licenses in approximately 60 categories of licensure. Additionally, the majority of these license categories include several individual license classifications. For example, within the nursing profession, licenses can be obtained for an LPN, RN, CRNA, APRN, or CNM. WASHINGTON (Marilyn Von Seggern) AG Opinions - Subject and keyword access to the full text of Washington State Attorney General opinions from 1949 to present. A list by date and by topic is also provided. Continue reading
Providing better services by building digital collections
March 2, 2012 / Leave a comment
In an excellent article in the current issue of Library Hi Tech, Eric Morgan, the Digital Projects Librarian at the Hesburgh Libraries at the of the University of Notre Dame, provides examples of building services based on digital collections. As he says:
- Use and understand: the inclusion of services against texts in library catalogs and "discovery systems." by Eric Lease Morgan, Library Hi Tech, Vol. 30 Iss: 1, (2012) pp.35 - 59. [subscription required]
It goes without saying that no library can develop such innovative services without actually acquiring copies of the digital information and building its own digital collection. Pointing to resources that are controlled by others limits the services that libraries can provide. Continue reading →Continue Reading →