2008 Presidential Primary and Caucus Dates

Stateline@org offers a listing of 2008 primaries and caucus dates: http://archive.stateline.org/flash-data/Primary/2008_presidential_primaries.pdf

Election 2008 Site

is up and running through the U. of Michigan. Please see at http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2008.html
.

NEW DATABASE: Union Report: Online Public Disclosure Room

at http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/olms/rrlo/lmrda.htm. From this database, you can view and print reports filed by unions, union officers, employees, and labor relations consultants for the year 2000 and after.

Statistics: Global Education Digest 2007

Comparing education statistics across the world at http://www.uis.unesco.org/template/pdf/ged/2007/EN_web2.pdf.

Word Digital Library

"UNESCO and the US Library of Congress will join forces to build a World Digital Library, following the signing of an agreement by Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, and the Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 17 October, 2007." See more details at http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/index.html

NOAA's On-Line Chart Viewer

The NOAA website offers up-to-date charts you can view on the Internet: http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer
(source:govdoc-l).

A New Blog called GOV Gab

USA.gov has recently launched GOV GAB blog. Please check it out at http://www.govgab.gov

Global Legal Monitor (GLM) by Law Library of Congress

GLM is an E-publication of the Law Library of Congress for information selected from the Global Legal Information Network(GLIN). It includes lectures, conferences, symposia, and exhibits on legal topics sponsored by the Law Library of Congress. Coverage: International.

Health Statistics: CDC Wonder

"CDC WONDER allows Web users to form interactive queries and create reports, charts, and maps of the results…Available subjects include mortality (deaths) and natality (births), cancer incidence, HIV and AIDS, behavioral risk factors, diabetes, and census data. A summary of data sets or collections helps users understand the nature of each data set." (http://wonder.cdc.gov/) (Source:Resourseshelf)

Printed Monthly Catalog (MoCat)

"GPO will no longer publish the paper versions of the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (MoCat), its serials supplement, or the Congressional Serial Set Catalog. These products are replaced by the web-based Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) which is available at: http://catalog.gpo.gov" (Source:fdlp-l).

Two Declassified CIA Historical Documents Collections

are now available online.
1)Family Jewels consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency's charter
2) CAESAR-POLO-ESAU Papers consists of 147 documents and 11,000 pages of in-depth analysis and research from 1953 to 1973. This will help studies on Sino-Soviet Relations.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the U.S.: George W. Bush Book II

is now available on GPO Access at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/index.html.

New Database: Library of Unified Information Sources (LOUIS)

LOUIS make it easy to search from a collection of over 300,000 documents from seven sets of federal documents dating back to 2001:http://www.louisdb.org/

Sources Currently in LOUIS Database:
Seven sets of federal documents:
++ Congressional Reports
++ Congressional Record
++ Congressional Hearings
++ Federal Register
++ Presidential Documents
++ GAO Reports
++ Congressional Bills & Resolutions

Other Sunlight Resources
+ Congresspedia
+ OpenCongress.org

Source: Sunlight Foundation
See Also: GovTrack.us
An essential source for tracking legislation through the U.S. Congress.(Source-ResourseShelf)

New Digital Publications from UM-Law

The UM-Law Library has just released the following titles in the Historical Publications of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Visit the project at http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/index.asp
1. The Benefits of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Elementary and
Secondary Education: Briefing Report. July 28, 2006.
2. Campus Anti-Semitism. Briefing Report. November 18, 2005.
3. Desegregation in Public School Districts in Florida: 18 Public
School Districts have Unitary Status; 16 Districts Remain Under Court
Jurisdiction. 2007
4. The Economic Stagnation of the Black Middle Class: Briefing
Report. July 15, 2005.
5. Findings and Recommendations of the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights Regarding Campus Anti-Semitism. April 3, 2006.
6. Funding Federal Civil Rights Enforcement: The President's 2006
Request. September 2005.
7. The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005:
Briefing Report. January 20, 2006.
8. The Reauthorization of the Temporary Provisions of the Voting
Rights Act: An Examination of the Act's Section 5 Preclearance
Provision. Briefing Report, April 2006. (Source: govdoc-l)

Library New Collection--more CensusCDs from Geolytics, Inc.

The following new acquired CD-Roms have already been popular items to use in Fenwick Library. Please check them out.
**Neighborhood Change Database (NCDB)- Access to US Census Data from 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000 in their census year tract boundaries. Also access data for all four decades normalized to 2000 Census Tract boundaries so that one can compare data for various years within the same bounday definition.
**Zip+4 CD (Standard)- gives geocoding of zip+4 to census block with demographic variables.
**Zip+4 with 2006 Estimates and 2011 Projections- additional of 60+ demographic variables and 2011 estimates to Zip+4 CD.

More Government Documents Databases are

available through the GMU Libraries' Database Wizard: USA.gov, Science.gov, Geodata.gov, NTIS/GPO DARTS. Please check them out!!

New Database: 2008 Presidental Election Donor Demographics

"This is the latest edition to Open Secrets (Center for Responsive Politics) collection of 2008 Presidential Election campaign finance info resources."

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/donordems.asp?cycle=2008
(Resourceshelf)

New Database: Digital Collection of World War II Publications

GPO and Southern Methodist University (SMU) Central University Libraries offer a digital collection of more than 3000 U.S. Government Publications distributed during the course of the World War II. This historical World War II publications will be permanently available to the public at http://worldwar2.smu.edu (Resourceshelf)

ERIC Microfiche Digitization Project

All of the old (1966-1992) microfiche are digitized and available through the web site: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true. This is great news. (govdoc-l)

UNESCO: Collection of Copyright Laws

Are you interested in copyright laws in other countries? This site endeavours to provide access to national copyright and related rights legislation of UNESCO Member States. Please see at http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14076&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html.

NEW--Global Legal Information Network

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) by Law Library of Congress
"is a public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations." See the site at http://www.glin.gov/search.action (Source: ResourceShelf)

NEW--Web Harvest of the 109th Congress (2006)

"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) conducted a harvest (i.e., capture) of House and Senate public web sites as they existed prior to December 11 2006. This harvest was intended to document Congressional presence on the World Wide Web during the closing weeks of the 109th Congress (2006)."

Please explore this site at http://www.webharvest.gov/collections/congress109th/ for a public copy of House and Senate documents retainted in the holdings of NARA. (Source: ResourceShelf)

New Statistics

2006 Canada Census is just released at http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census/

Training Session on the CGP (Catalog of the U.S. Government Publications)

Government Printing Office (GPO) just released its first web-based training seeion on the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, which is online catalog for government publications from 1976 to the present. See the demo session at http://www.opal-online.org/archiveGPO.htm.
(source: govdoc-l)

Google to open up Federal Web Sites.

Google is trying to disseminate government information....
"Google is making strides on an initiative to make information stored on public government Web sites more accessible to people looking for it--"
"Three federal organizations recently agreed to structure their sites to make them accessible for nearly all Internet searches, the officials said." See full-text at: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0207/022107p1.htm
Title: Google moves ahead with plan to open up federal Web sites
By Daniel Pulliam
February 21, 2007
(Source: govdoc-l)

Update on Public Papers of the Presidents of the U.S.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush Book I
- January 1 to June 30, 2003 now available on GPO Access at:http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers/index.html

New Database: WISQARS

WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data. See also: Injury Topics and fact sheets for data related to this topic. (Source: Resourceshelf)

Major Change in Trade Data

1) Effective with Dec. 2006 trade data, USA Trade Online will include statistics on containerized shipments (such as vessel value and vessel shipping weight data for items shipped in van-type containers) with the port data.
2) Next month, March 2007, the trade data will be released using a revised Hormonized System (H.S.) coding system. This code changes will affect data bases such as USA TradeOnline, ITC and UN. It will also affect the SITC codes. See more details at http://home.stat-usa.gov/statnews.

(Source: govdoc-l)

Fall FDLP Meeting--

Postcast files from the Fall Federal Depositoy Library Program (FDLP) Conference Meeting is now available at http://www.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/proceedings/06fall/ podcasts.html

ALA GODORT launched own wiki

Welcome to GODORT Wiki! : http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Main_Page!

Budget of the United States Government, FY 08

is available on GPO Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/index.html.

New Guide on International Trade

The Buffalo University offers a wonderful guide on International Trade. Please check it out at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/busdoc/intl_trade.html

Information on or about NGOs

Several useful links for Non-Profit Organizations:
Non-governmental Organization Research Guide via Duke University
Directory of Development Organizations
Global Policy Forum (NGOs)
InterAction
The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
The NGO Cafe
NGO Global Network
NGO Watch
United Nation DPI-NGO
International Working Paper Series
(Source: Resourceshelf)

British Library and Department of Energy to collaborate

on Gloabl Science Gateway. See details at
http://www.bl.uk/news/2007/pressrelease20070125.html.

State of Union Address on January 23

is available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070123-2.html and the Democratic response at http://speaker.gov/newsroom/multimedia?id=0011.

FirstGov.gov Update--Web Chat Now Available

FirstGov.gov, the U.S. Government's official web portal, now offers Web Chat, a live online service to help you answer government-related questions. This service will be available Monday through Friday from 12:00 noon until 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. Click on Live Help-Web Chat from this page:http://answers.usa.gov/cgi-bin/gsa_ict.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_sid=KTOOiSBh.