State Agency Databases Project: Business, Finance & Economy
This week we are highlighting the Business, Finance & Economy 50-State guide from the State Agency Databases Project. This guide lists 47 states that are known to have publicly searchable, state agency produced databases in this subject area. Three databases from this compilation are: ARIZONA Charitable Organizations System – May be searched by name, dba or purpose. Records indicate […]
Depository Library Council class of 2017 named
Congratulations to the Depository Library Council class of 2017: Erik Beck, Jane Canfield, Mary Clark, Donna James, Celina McDonald. These five new DLC members will serve from June 1, 2017 – May 31, 2020 Erik Beck: Digital Services Librarian, University of Colorado Law School, William A. Wise School of Law, Boulder, CO. Eric is the […]
John Oliver analyzes Gerrymandering. Hilarious and disturbing
John Oliver is at it again, deeply analyzing a boring political concept in a smart, interesting — and funny — way. This time, he explains Gerrymandering, the nefarious practice of manipulating district boundaries for political advantage, named after Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry. If anyone is interested in delving deeper, you can read the new book […]
State Agency Databases Project: Agriculture & Food Sources
As a result of the State Agency Databases Project migration to GODORT LibGuides, the volunteers are able to offer more subject guides covering the fifty states. We plan to highlight one subject guide a week till we get through all of the guides. This week’s highlight is Agriculture & Food Sources, featuring 35 states that project volunteers know […]
Announcing the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) project
Here at FGI, we have been raising concerns about the many issues surrounding the preservation of born-digital govt information for quite some time. Over the last year, there have been some fruitful discussions about digital preservation. Out of those discussions and meetings has grown a new collaborative project called the Preservation of Electronic Government Information […]