World Bank Climate Data Portal

provides quick climate and climate related data for policy makers and development participants. The Web site is at http://beta.worldbank.org/climatechange/ and includes a data visualization tool.

Site Maps Stimulus Spending

Do you want to know: how much funding is being distributed to each state, how much funding is being provided to each state by each federal department, how the funding is flowing to individual contractors, and how many jobs are being created in the locations? See the new mapping feature of Recovery.gov.

Asksam: Obama Speech ebook

A free searchable collection of Barack Obama speeches from 2002-present is available from Asksam. Please check out:
+ State of the Nation-Speech to Congress on 02/24/2009
+ First 100 Days-Address to Nation on 04/29/2009
+ Cairo Speech-Cairo, Egypt Address on 06/04/2009.

2008 Notable Government Documents

from May issue of Library Journal. Included are Atlas of Global Development, Black American People (1870-1989), U.S. Marines in Iraq, Civics and Citizenship Toolkit, the Little Acorn, and The World Cruise of the Great Fleet. All of them are available through GMU. Please check out our catalog.