Free 1940 Census Data

will be available online soon.  Please watch out its April 2 release date that was announced by the National Archives.

See the websites for more information: www.1940census.archives.gov
www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/

(source: ResourceShelf, 2/21/2012)

Digitized Congressional Hearings in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s

are freely available through the database at the University of New Orleans

To browse : http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/p120701coll25
To search: http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/search.php?CISOROOT=/p120701coll25

The project is limited to those collection, U.S. Senate and House Hearings available to the University of Libraries. It may not be covered a whole congressional hearings collection published for that period.  But it offers another good access point for growing digitized older documents.

Legacy Version of American Factfinder

will be discontinued January 20, 2012

Those datasets including:

• 1990 Census
• 2000-2004 American Community Survey
• 2000-2001 Supplementary Survey
• 1997 Economic Census
• 2003 Annual Survey of Manufactures
• 2003 Nonemployer Statistics

will be available through an archived FTP format.  Instruction on how to access these archived products will be provided in future updates.

All other current and previous year data from the American Community Survey, Puerto Rico Community Survey, Annual Population Estimates, Economic Census, and Annual Economic Surveys are available at http://factfnder.census.gov

EPA releases confidential chemical information

through EPA's Chemical Data Access Tool.

"Releasing the data will expand the public’s access to critical health and safety information on chemicals that are manufactured and processed in the U.S. "

See the full article at http://infodocket.com/2011/11/28/now-available-epa-releases-formerly-confidential-chemical-information/

GPO Access Goes Achive Only

The contents of GPO Access is completely migrated to FDsys as the legendary gateway service, GPO Access remains archive. Please check FDsys (GPO's Federal Digital System) for the most up-to date digital documents collection issued by GPO.

Science.gov Mobile Available

at m.science.gov (no download required). Also three more new databases are available through this database:

**Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) EPA under Environment and Environmental Quality

**DOE Data Explorer under Math, Physics, Chemistry (a product of Science Accelerator)

**Energy Science and Technology Software Center (ESTSC)DOE (a product of Science Accelerator)

Science.gov now provides access to more than 45 databases that can be searched!!

Federal Court Opinions Available on FDsys

The following three courts Opinions collection dates back to April 2004:
** The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
** The U.S. District Court District of Rhode Island
** The U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern District of Florida

are now available and searchable through FDsys. This pilot project will expand to more after testing.

Video Tutorial for FDsys Available

Please find the video tutorials created by the documents librarian at the university of Colorado at Boulder:

**How to use FDsys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDGxMMsXr_U
**What is FDsys?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSo86YoNiTc

These video tutorials are very helpful to your need I think.

Metalib as the GPO's Federated Search Resources

Now users can simultaneously search GPO's FDsys (Federal Digital System) and CGP database(Catalog of Government Publications) from one search box: Metalib (metalib.gpo.gov). It also allows search other general government databases such as Pubmed, EPA, TRIS, ERIC index etc. simultaneously. This is an enhanced search feature just released by the GPO. It allows users to narrow their search by categories such as topics, dates, authors, and resources.

Instructional Videos for American Factfinder 2

If you found still difficulty moving around the new American Factfinder (AFF), you would find the two instructions below very useful:

--A 5-minute video on the basics of the AFF 2:http://youtu.be/4Jt3-1dATdk
--A 9-minute video on advanced search: http://youtu.be/V77TkN0YNGQ

Created by a librarian at the University of Colorado.

geodata.gov is moving to data.gov

Geospatial One-stop (www.geodata.gov) is moving to Data.gov (www.data.gov) as of Sept. 30, 2011.

See the announcement in detail at:
http://gos2qp.geodata.gov/QuickPlace/whatsnew22/Main.nsf/h_Toc/7FF8462F91E2D6E488257906007D1C1D/?OpenDocument

Census 2010 and New American Factfinder Workshop is here!

The workshop will be held in Fenwick Instruction Room (2nd floor) on Wednesday, August 31st at 10:30-12:30.

A few seats are still available. If you want to join us, please contact Joy Suh (hsuh1@gmu.edu)

Speaker: Jori Frazier at the U.S. Census Bureau in Charlotte, NC.
Topic: Overview of the 2010 Census and American Community Survey and a hands-on training on the new American Factfinder (AFF).

Don't miss this good opportunity to learn about this important America data site.

Link to USGS Publications Changing

"The U.S. Geological Survey's Publications Warehouse (pubs.usgs.gov) will complete a process to migrate all of its' on-line publications into Portable Document Format (PDF) files by September 1, 2011."

the preferred link to this publication is:
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b1967

The previous online publication format will stop working by Sept. 1 this year.

(source: govdoc-l)

Census Data for Same-Sex Couple

"The Williams Institutes will be releasing Census Snapshot: 2010 reports throughout the summer. These Snapshots will provide demographic and geographic information about same-sex couples and same-sex couples raising children for all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico."

Please see, http://www3.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/home.html

Exhibit at GPO-150 Years of Service to the Nation

GPO is celebrating its 150 years of anniversary and hosting the history exhibit, titled as KEEPING AMERICA INFORMED: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 150 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE NATION. This exhibit covers the history of people, the machines, and the material produced at GPO over the past 150 years.

It's open to the public. See the full report.

Update on Davis Bacon Wage Determinations

The U.S. GPO has a partnership with the Dept. of Labor and the NTIS to provide permanent public access to Davis Bacon Wage Determination information.

Visit www.wdol.gov to search and browse both current and archived wage determinations (2000-).

No Longer "Google's Uncle Sam and GovSearch.Google.com" Available

It's official that these two Google Search Engines that Google offered at least for a decade were offline. See the article directly.

Congressional App for That.

Christine Sellers of the Law Library at LoC has compiled a nice list of apps for smart phones that can help you keep up with Congress.

There’s a Congressional App for That, by Christine Sellers, Library of Congress Law Library blog (June 7th, 2011).
(Source: Free Government Information)

Notable Government Information 2011

This year's outstanding government information resources are appeared in the May 15 issue of Library Journal.

Please see the article and a complete list of the documents .

Public Data Explorer: Data Visualization

A new Google's project called Public Data Explore allows VISUALIZATIONS of data from the World Bank, OECD Factbook, Eurostat, and the World Resource Institute and the various U.S. government agencies. It's worth to explore.