Friday, April 22, 2005

New Digital Library: GATT

This online library provides access to over 30,000 documents and publications of and about the General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barries among member states from 1947-1994.

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Now Available...

The Survey Result of GPO 2005 Essential Titles is out. Look for your favorites!

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

FRASER is UP!

A new database, Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER), has been launched. Please explore this new database for historical economic statistical publications: Banking and Monetary Statistics (1914-1970), Business Conditions Digest, Business Statistics, Economic Indicators, and more.

Friday, April 15, 2005

American Factfinder (AFF) Update

American Factfinder where you can get online Census information has a new feature, POPULATION FINDER. Click on the population finder button in the left menu and find the Census 2000, 1990, the latest population estimate, population density, and more information for your area of interest. See the detail at http://factfinder.census.gov/jsp/saff/SAFFInfo.jsp?_content=su2_new_features_0405.html

Thursday, April 07, 2005

GPO News

GPO is looking for a new model for sales of their publications through public-private partnership. For more information, visit http://www.gpo.gov/salesprogramrfi

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Google Unveils Satellite Map Feature

"Google Inc. has unveiled a new feature that will enable its users to zoom in on homes and businesses using satellite images--" Now you can see the location of your house as well as the feature of your house. See the article: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/04/05/google.maps.ap/index.html
See the Google Maps link: http://maps.google.com

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Virtual Reference Service--Online Pilot Project

A national Pilot project called Government Information Online (GIO) has been established to answer government information questions since Nov, 2004. The service utilizes OCLC's QuestionPoint software and offers chat reference 57 hours a week as well as e-mail reference. For more information on this, please check it out at http://govtinfo.org