Online Tutorial: Congressional Research

University of California-Berkeley (UCB) just developed a nice electronic tutorial on doing congressional research. Please explore this site: http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/wikis/congresearch/ and click on the "write to us" link on the site's homepage to leave any questions and comments because this is still a work in progress. (Source: govdoc-l).

GREEN BOOK: U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants

If you are looking for online version of the U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID]U.S. Overseas Loans and Greens, Obligations and Loan Authorizations, this is known as "The Greenbook." See at http://qesdb.usaid.gov/gbk/ It contains "a historical data of U.S. foreign aid to the rest of the world by reporting all loans and grants authorized by the U.S. Government for each fiscal year." (source: govdoc-l).

Digital Preservation Program Adds New Partners...

To Preserve State Government Digital Information. "Twenty-one states, working in four multistate demonstration projects, are today joining the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in an initiative to catalyze collaborative efforts to preserve important state government information in digital form." See the whole article at http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-004.html

Mobile Web: Thomas and USA.gov

U.S. legislative information goes MOBILE with Thomas Mobile while U.S. Government Tall free Directory goes with USA.gov Mobile. Both have a search tool from your web phone and mobile device. (Source: Resourceshelf)