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)