Guide of the Week: Public Policy Matrix
This week's Guide of the Week from the ALA GODORT Handout Exchange Wiki will be useful in stimulating critical thinking about public policy:
Public Policy Matrix (Grace York, University of Michigan, 1999) CC Last updated 5/12/2008 - Noncommercial copying and adaptation of this guide is permitted if the original author is cited as stipulated under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 LicenseThis guide is structured differently than many of the librarian produced guides we have highlighted before. Instead of the usual list of resources with or without annotations, we have a guide that this broken down by types of questions:
WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? | WHAT'S THE SOLUTION? LEGISLATIVE SOLUTION Legislative Process | Influences on Legislators EXECUTIVE BRANCH SOLUTION Executive Branch Options | Influences on Executive Branch MONITORING THE RESULTFor each question or type of solution, subsets of the session are offered along with resources that might answer that question. For example, for "Who is influencing Congress?" We have:
- Journal and Newspaper articles
- Political Parties
- Committee Chairmen
- Colleagues
- Congressional Hearings for Lobby Group and Executive Branch Testimony
- Executive Branch
- Interest Groups
- Campaign Finances
- Public
OSTP has a Blog
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) now has its on blog, "a place where you can learn about and have real input into the policymaking process as it relates to science and technology." OSTP Blog And, yes, there is an RSS/ATOM feed! http://blog.ostp.gov/feed/ http://blog.ostp.gov/feed/atom/ Continue reading
Balzheimers disease
Happy Friday! John Stewart discusses the supreme irony of former VP Cheney and Carl Rove going to the media and calling on the Obama administration to declassify information. It makes one's head explode!
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GITCO VIRTUAL FORUM – JOIN US FRIDAY, April 24th – 10AM PST/11AM MST/12PM CST/1PM EST
see this link for April chat logs, upcoming May date and more details on GITCO Scroll down and start typing to join the chat. or if it does not seems to connect join here What is Meebo and how do I get set up? TOPIC: emerging issues in ADVOCACY for electronic government information Accessing government information electronically is now common in both US and international contexts. How have communications with government providers, with users and communities changed? This session is meant to be a brainstorm -- to collect ideas and examples, rather than to follow each contribution to its conclusion. The room will be open after the session if you would like to add comments after the planned session. There is also a brief participant survey which includes a place for feedback. Agenda for Today's Forum: *introductions *logistics *how have communications with government information providers changed? US/international, etc. *what are the most important things users need to know now to gain access to electronic gov info -- how should librarians be supporting these needs? *How can GITCO help librarians with electronic gov info advocacy? What resources, or tools should we be producing? *take the survey
Senate still files financial disclosures the old-fashioned way
Low-tech Senate slow rolls disclosures, by VICTORIA MCGRANE, Politico (4/22/09).
You can learn instantly via Twitter that Claire McCaskill needs an iPhone repair or that Chuck Grassley burned his leg on his Iowa farm. But if you want to comb through the details of a senator’s quarterly campaign finance reports online, it’s going to take a month to get the information — and a boatload of government money to make it available.Continue reading