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The geek in me likes that the Government Printing Office has a youtube account. In honor of my LIS 5661 government documents class, I share with thee such splendor.

Apr 6th, 2009 | Filed under LIS5661, MLIS

This is a video I created for my LIS 5313 (Design & Media Production) class. One of our major projects was to create a digital story based on a specific experience in our lives that has importance to who we are. I chose to create a video based on the evolution of discovering my “librarian [...]

Mar 8th, 2009 | Filed under librarian, LIS5313, video

For those of us taking government documents/searching classes: I found today’s post at the Library Journal, Government Documents Move to Improved Federal Digital System, extremely interesting, timely and applicable to my current studies! Changes are a-coming to GPOAccess… In fact, by mid-2009, GPOAccess will be no more as the Government Printing Office’s new Federal Digital [...]

Feb 7th, 2009 | Filed under government, LIS5661

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 [...]

Jan 31st, 2009 | Filed under libraries, LIS5313, twitter

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, [...]

Jan 30th, 2009 | Filed under govdoc story, government, LIS5661