AskSam: search Economic Stimulus Bill

You can search the full text transcripts of more than 200 speeches by President Obama from 2002-present: http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/obama-speeches/

Also you can search the economic stimulus bill: http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/stimulus

FDsys Public Beta Released

GPO's Future Digital System (FDsys) is now available as a public beta. The information on GPO Access is in the process of being migrated to FDsys and the process will be complete in mid-2009. Please try this system and send your feedback to GPO to improve the capabilities of FDsys.

"Show Us the Data"

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) of Open the Government.org recently launched a new website, "Show Us the Data" to allow the public to decide what government information not available on the Internet that should be. CRS reports, Bailout Funds, and Department of Justice Patriot Act Usage are currently most requested documents in order. Do not miss this chance to have your opinions heard. Also paralle to this project is transparency.gov and recovery.gov that intended to insure transparency of stimulus funding...

DOT joined Science.gov

The Science.gov gateway now includes the DOT National Transportation Library (NTL) Integrated Search and more than 30 DOT websites including TRIS online, NTK Digital Repsotioy, and other Transportation Websites. So now you can find science information from 14 government agencies!

Inaugural Address posted.

President Obama's Inaugural address is posted at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/read_the_inaugural_address/ and the video will be added soon in case you missed it.

Data for voting in the UN General Assembly

If you want to check out the original voting records for the UN General Assembly including those not passed, this site would be very useful: http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/ev42/UNVoting.htm

2008 Presidential Election

"USA.gov now offers a new page on the presidential election. You’ll find information about President-elect Barack Obama, inauguration day (January 20, 2009), and the 2008 election. It also includes biographies of President- and Vice President-Elect Obama and Biden, and their wives." (source: ResourceShelf)

Fall FDLP Conference, 2008

I just got back from the Federal Depository Library Conference, Oct. 20-22. As usual, there were a lot of programs mixed with GPO activities, council discussion sessions about the future of the FDLP, and presentations where documents librarians shared what they were doing to make government information more accessible. The meeting agenda and hand outs are already up athttp://www.fdlp.gov/repository/fall-dlc-meeting-arlington-va/2.html. So please take a look at them. I will put a summary of this meeting and some highlights on the TripNotes soon. Stay tuned.

Persistent URLS by THOMAS

The Library of Congress THOMAS Legislative website has introduced Legislative Handles which is a new persistent URL service for creating links to legislative documents. See more: http;//thomas.loc.gov/home/handles/help.html. (Source: govdoc-l)

Datalab from NCES

NCES (National Center for Education statistics) announced a new web site called, Datalab, that enables people to efficiently look at education statistics.
Please visit the Website: http://nces.ed.gov/datalab/ for more details.

Global Legal Monitor

was redesigned. Please take a look at http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?home This is an online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and development worldwide. Can be searched through its search interface.

Welcome to the fall 2008!

The Mason Libraries are ready to assist you with your studies and research. One of our librarians' projects this summer was to create the new InfoGuides which replace the existing subject home page. I have created the infoguides on U.S. Government Publications, State and Local Documents, Maps, and International Organizations and Publications. Please check them out!!

New Search Engine for HSDL Blogs

Search across more than 30 homeland security blogs and bloggers.


http://www.hsdl.org/?homefront:blogsearch

Google Health!

See the article, "Google Gets Into Health" at http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/19/google-online-health-tech-ebiz_cx_wt_0519google.html

The doctor is in at Google.

The search king announced Monday that consumers can now upload their medical records to Google Health, its closely-watched health information site.
(source: Resourceshelf)

UN's Human Development Report Database

has been launched: http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics. You will get helpful information about the Human Development Index (HDI) and other indices from this site and also get on-going debates and discussions on human development statistics. Category: International studies/international statistics. (Source: Resourceshelf).

GOVDOC NEW ARRIVALS-March, 2008.

Some of highlighted federal documents arrivals to our collection this month include:

*Air Alamnac, 2008 (D 213.7:2008)
*After the Strom (EP 1.104: ST 7/2/2006)
*An Historical ATLAS of ISLAM (G 1786. S1H6 2002)
*National Atlas.gov (I 19.120: C 76/4)
*Natural-Color Image Mosaics of Afganistan: Digital Databases and Maps (I *19.121:245/DISC 1-3)
*SPI (State Personal Income, 1929-2006)
*U.S. Library Data Archive (Y3.L 61:15/L 62)

All are in CD or DVD format. They would be interest to many faculty and students.

Converting PDF tables into Excel files

See the full instruction on this posted by McGill University. This is very helpful for providing reference assistance with government statistical information.

109th Congress, U.S. Statutes at Large

1st Session (2005),Volume 119 is now available online from the U.S. Government Printing
Office at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/statutes/index.html

GPO Virtual Reference Service

called as GIO (Government Information Online) is now available online: http://govtinfo.org. This is a free online information service supported by nearly twenty public, state and academic libraries throughout the United States. Check it out..

Super Tuesday Election Result

Are you wondering about Super Tuesday Election Result? See this site for the direct links to sources:
http://www.resourceshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/suptue.html