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Earlier in January, I sent Michael Stephens a copy of my LIS 5313 web 2.0 article regarding Twittering Libraries. Since he wrote a lot about the value Twitter has for libraries, I thought the information I collected from my survey might be of some interest. He probably gets a million emails from other random folks [...]
Wow! I love color and so I really, really love this tool from idée: Multicolor Search Lab Flickr Set. I stumbled upon it from Kevin Brody at his blog – check out his post on finding the perfect color-matched creative-commons photo. Step 1, click on a color square and creative-commons photos show up…I tried out [...]
For LIS 5661, we have to write a “government document” story, detailing a bill as it becomes a law. I have chosen to focus on the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Today it was signed into law! As I work on my govdoc paper, I’ll be sure to share the interesting documents, testimonials from hearings, [...]
I know I’ve been talking a lot about Obama recently, but I just found something else fascinating and new about his administration. While perusing whitehouse.gov yesterday, I noticed that within his Executive Office, Obama has an “Office of Social Innovation.” Maybe Obama really is trying to make government cool again!
I have been reading chapter after chapter in United States Government: Information & Policies (Hernon, et al) about all the sources one can use to find Government documents. Lemme tell ya – there are lots. Published in 2002, the book was on the cusp of the electronic information breakthrough. As such, we have seen many [...]
