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.

Latin American Government Documents Archive

The Latin American Network Information Center, part of the University of Texas at Austin has been archiving Latin American government publications and websites since 2005 through the Archive-It web archiving service. The collection includes Latin American Government publications in print or Printed out the early websites. It preserves the publications and official government websites. Please enjoy the collection.

National Government Statistics Collection

National Government Statistics Collection, part of the Indiana University Bloomington Libraties's Archive it documents project, provides a comprehensive collection of web sites of statistical agencies of 150 countries including Africa, Central Eurasis, East Asia, Latin America, Russia, East Europe, and more. It includes data, reports, statistical yearbooks, methodological guides, and other information.

DATA.gov

Please visit DATA.gov. This is "to increase public access to machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government" You can search the database by category and agency(source: govdoc-l).

OpenJurist.org

is an open access database to US Supreme Court and Federal Applellate opinion. It includes the Federal Reporter-US Court of Appeals and US States Reports-US supreme Court Cases. Please see whether this is a good fit for your online research guide: http://openjurist.org (source; govdoc-l).

Swine Flu Flashback

Take a look at this infoguide about Swine Flu that a librarian at BGSU created: The Swine Flu Scare of 1976 at http://libguides.bgsu.edu/SwineFlu This is a bibliography of U.S. government publications about the event accompanied by a brief article summarizing events.

National Security Archive

This Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States. Please check it out at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

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.