Lunchtime listen: Cass Hartnett: reflections of a mid-career documents librarian
(Cross-posted on GODORT blog) At last week's Spring '09 Depository Library Conference in Tampa -- which was, to remind everyone, live-blogged! -- GODORT chair Cass Hartnett spoke on the topic "Reflections of a Mid-career Government Documents Librarian." Cass' talk was both thoughtful and thought-provoking. The video runs about an hour. During the talk, Cass handed out a list of 14 "memory questions." After viewing the video, please share your answers to the questions in the comments section below. Thanks!
- An early library job
- technology
- an early career dream
- good committee you served on or good workshop attended, or both
- mentor(s) who helped you at the state/local level
- up and coming student/librarian who impressed you
- Washington D.C.
- Library user(s)
- future of FDLP
- government information in everyday life
- good article or book
- power of description
- digital amazement
- Web 2.0 triumph or trouble
GovFresh.com: Government 2.0
GovFresh.com was launched today and it is a live feed of official news from U.S. Government RSS and social media accounts (including Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr and more) all in one convenient place. So far, live feeds are from the White House, Supreme Court, House, Senate, DNC, RNC, and the following Departments and Agencies: Agriculture, Defense, Education, Energy, Homeland Security, Labor, State, CDC, CIA, EPA, FBI, FDA, and NASA. You can also suggest a feed. GovFresh also has their own FriendFeed and Twitter account for you to follow. Continue reading
Big Changes to whitehouse.gov
ProPublica notes that there were big changes to the White House web site this week:
- ChangeTracker Update: Big Changes to WhiteHouse.gov on Obama’s 100th Day, by Brian Boyer, ProPublica, May 1, 2009.
White House on Facebook, etc.
WhiteHouse 2.0, White House Blog, May 1st, 2009.
Today the White House is taking steps to expand how the Administration is communicating with the public, ... In addition to WhiteHouse.gov, you can now find us in a number of other spots on the web...· Facebook.com/WhiteHouse · MySpace.com/WhiteHouse · Twitter.com/WhiteHouse It will be interesting to see if this really works! The first comment I saw was just an unhelpful rant. It might be nice if they took a lesson from sites like slashdot which have figured out how to make comments helpful without censoring anyone. Continue reading
LOC offers Subject Headings as bulk download
"LOC Subject Headings is the first bulk-data download offered under Authorities and Vocabularies at new site: http://id.loc.gov " Again, a hat tip to John Wonderlich! Continue reading