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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.
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 [...]
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’m doing my reading for LIS5661 (government info) and one small section of my book covers financial disclosure information. (Elected officials are required to file personal financial disclosure reports every year). There are quite a few interesting resources — i.e., check out the Office of the Clerk of the House (Public Disclosure Reports), the Federal [...]
Updated 6/30/09 It has been widely noted how Barack Obama has utilized technology and social media to educate and inform U.S. citizens about his campaign (just check out his YouTube channel and his Facebook, Twitter, MySpace pages). In fact, some debate whether it made a difference in helping him win the election. Now he has [...]
