Roundup of New Resources and Other Government Info News (12 Items)
Greetings from DC. Here's a roundup with a bunch of recent postings from our INFOdocket site containing news and new resources of possible interest to the FGI community. This is a small sample of what we post each day. Most of the following items were shared in the past week or so. We are also available on Twitter. 1. New From U.S. Census: 2008-2010 ACS 3-Year Estimates 2. Article: “Patriot Act Turns 10, With No Signs of Retirement” + Patriot Act Infographic (Facts and Stats) 3. State Library of Tennessee Partners With Ancestry.com, Database Includes Millions of Images and Names 4. New Report: The State of World Population 2011 (World Population Tops 7 Billion, via UNPA) 5. New from U.S. Census: American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States Wall Map 6. “A 5th Anniversary For the Forest Service National Library Celebrates 100 Years of History” 7. U.S. Census: USA Counties (New Stats) 8 New: Director of U.S. Copyright Office Announces Priorities, Special Projects for Next Two Years 9. Register of Copyrights Names Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs 10. Archivist of the United States on Digital Public Library of America Plenary 11. Legal Information: Cameras in Court Pilot Project Now Has 70 Videos Online 12. Campaign Finance: OpenSecrets.org Unveils New Interactive Features To Monitor 2012 Presidential Money Race 13. EPA: Office of Pesticide Programs Launches Online Searchable Database of Inert Ingredients Approved for Use in Pesticides 14. New From the C-SPAN Video Library: MP3 Audio Files Available for All Programs We hope you find these resources useful. We hope you stop by or follow. Direct to INFOdocket INFOdocket on Twitter cheers, gary price Continue reading
Existing Regional Depository Library Models
There have been questions lately about shared regional depositories. Below is a table from the GPO Time for Change? document. Yellow indicates shared regionals within one state, and orange indicates one regional serving multiple states or areas. The same table is available as a PDF in the link below.
- Regional Depository Libraries in the 21st Century: A Time for Change?, A REPORT TO THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING, U.S. Government Printing Office (June 2008). "Existing Regional Depository Library Models," Table 1, pages 5-6
Purpose of 1969 Nuclear Alert Remains a Mystery in new FRUS volume
Steven Aftergood says that State Department historians are still, in a new volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), unable to provide a definitive account of an event in October 1969 when the Nixon Administration secretly placed U.S. nuclear forces on alert.
- Purpose of 1969 Nuclear Alert Remains a Mystery, by Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, (October 25th, 2011).
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXXIV, National Security Policy, 1969–1972. [PDF, 3.4MB] This volume documents U.S. national security policy in the context of the Vietnam War and the changing Cold War strategic balance between the United States and the Soviet Union.
State Agency Databases Activity Report 10/23/2011
It's been a few weeks since the last report for the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases, but our volunteers have stayed busy. VOLUNTEER AND ORPHAN NEWS Ann Ellis, Metadata Librarian with Stephen F. Austin State University Library, answered the call of Texas and has begun adding databases. Our last official orphan remains Rhode Island. Will you be the one to take the last "unadopted orphan?" If you're interested in adopting Rhode Island, check out our volunteer guide at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/SADATFS_Volunteer_Guide and then send me an e-mail if you'd like to adopt it. If you adopt Rhode Island, be prepared to put your name and contact information on the main project page AND your state page within two weeks of receiving your wiki login. See the Volunteer guide for more details. WIKI ACTIVITY See our last 14 days of activity at http://tinyurl.com/statedbs14d for a blow by blow description of changes to the page. Here are a few highlights: DATABASES ADDED CALIFORNIA (Joel Rane) Recommended Literature for Math and Science - A database of outstanding science and mathematics-related literature for children and adolescents. The recommended titles reflect the quality and the complexity of the types of materials students should be reading at school and outside of class. Searches can be performed by author, title, keyword, grade level span, language, science or mathematics subject area, etc. Extensive explanations of the search indexes are available. Joel has been extremely busy the past few weeks adding and reorganizing California resources. If you haven't checked out the page since mid-September, you should. NEW MEXICO (Adrienne Walker) Physician Profile Search - The New Mexico Medical Board provides and maintains physician data as part of this official website, and is the primary source for physician and physician assistant profiles and other related information and data. Information on the website is normally updated weekly, and the date of the most recent update is always provided on the search page. NORTH DAKOTA (Kathryn Thomas) North Dakota Courts Records Inquiry - Search criminal, traffic, civil, family, and probate case records; judgments; and court calendar. This is one of a number of court system databases that Kathryn has added. OHIO (Audrey Hall) Treasurer's Transparency Project Search for state public employee and teacher salaries. - Links to The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions for local, higher education and federal salaries. TEXAS (ANN ELLIS) Texas Plant Information Database - Database includes information about native and naturalized plants used for landscape restoration. It lists species that when planted appropriately provide landscapes that are similar to those that naturally grow in Texas. Continue reading
U.S Department of Labor, Facebook, and Others Announce Partnership
Via INFOdocket: From a DOL News Release: Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced an innovative partnership that leverages the combined audience and expertise of officials from the U.S. Department of Labor, Facebook, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, DirectEmployers Association and the National Association of Colleges and Employers to provide crucial employment resources to job seekers through the use of social networks. [Clip] As part of the announcement, Facebook officials debuted a "social jobs partnership" page that highlights available training programs, educational opportunities and job search resources, which can be accessed at http://www.facebook.com/socialjobs. Facebook also made a commitment to drive traffic to the page through targeted online public service announcements that will appear to users in geographic areas experiencing high unemployment. In the coming months, public and private-sector partners who have committed to helping Americans find jobs through resources and technology will be added. Watch Today's Announcement Read the Complete Announcement Continue reading