NARA to offer digitized papers of Obama administration
In a press release today, The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announced a “new model for the preservation and accessibility of Presidential records.” The Obama Foundation has announced its commitment to fund the digitization of all of the unclassified Presidential records created during the administration of President Barack Obama and NARA says that, “Instead […]
State of Mississippi Breaks All Its URLs
Carl Malamud noticed that the State of Mississippi relaunched their web site and INVALIDATED EVERY SINGLE URL! The generic 404 error message delivered by the state’s website says: The SOS site has recently been redesigned and relaunched and the addresses for most pages and files have now changed Pointing to government websites is neither effective […]
Crime, Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement at State Agency Databases Project
This week’s State Agency Databases Project subject highlight is Crime, Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement. This guide is one of the few cases where all 50 states and the District of Columbia have at least one publicly searchable database in a subject area. Three examples from this compilation are: ALABAMA Alabama Blue Alert Search – Blue Alert […]
GPO releases digital Congressional Record for the 1960s
The Government Publishing Office (GPO) just announced that GPO in concert with Library of Congress have released another decade of historic bound Congressional Record, this time covering 1961 – 1970. The CR is now available on govinfo.gov for 1961 – 2006. This release covers debates and proceedings of the 87th through the 91st Congresses. Spanning […]
Community & Social Services at State Agency Databases Project
This week’s State Agency Databases Project subject highlight is Community & Social Services, featuring 36 states that project volunteers know to have publicly searchable databases in this subject area. Three examples from this compilation are: ALABAMA Alabama Children Awaiting Adoption – Search children available for adoption by gender, number of children, age, race, disability, and profile […]