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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Government
National Security Letter Gag Order
An article titled “My National Security Letter Gag Order” appears in today’s Washington Post, and although it isn’t written by a librarian, it puts a face on what being served a National Security Letter might be like. I am not … Continue reading
Posted in Government, News
Tagged librarian, Washington Post
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USGS Land Cover Database
It’s not at the “web-based, jump in – the water’s fine” stage (though they indicate that they are working towards this), but the United States Geologic Service (USGS) has developed a National Land Cover Database from 2001 LandSat imagery. This … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Maps, Online Databases, Space
Tagged United States Geologic Service
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Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting summary
The official summary of the Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting held by the Library of Congress at Google’s headquarters last week has been posted. Karen Coyle’s blog has her notes from the meetings. from Coyle’s InFormation and Catalogablog
Posted in Google, Government, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Google, Karen Coyle, Library of Congress
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Copyright Chaos
Lawrence Lessig has an Op-Ed in today’s New York Times called “Make Way for Copyright Chaos“, which discusses a shift towards the courts when interpreting copyright law. from ©ollectanea
Posted in Copyright, Government, News, Politics
Tagged copyright law, Lawrence Lessig, New York Times
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Library of Congress Meetings
The Library of Congress has formed the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and will be having their first public meeting tomorrow, March 8th, at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The truly interesting thing is that anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Google, Government, Libraries
Tagged Andrew Pace, California, Chicago, Congress, Google, Karen Coyle, Karen Markey, Karen Schneider, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Meetings The
Library of Congress, Library of Congress Meetings The
Library of Congress, Mountain View
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Fair Use Act
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has information on their site about HR 1201, a.k.a. The Fair Use Act, currently working its way through the U.S. House of Representatives, that would strengthen the fair use concepts that have been in existence … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Fair Use, Government, News
Tagged copyright law, electronic equipment, Electronic Frontier Foundation, U.S. House of Representatives, United States
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PubMed PubReMiner
PubReMiner is an interesting tool that lets you see the metadata behind your PubMed search, and lets you narrow your search with quite a bit more understanding of the ways in which you can do so. This was included as … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, Medical, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Periodicals, Search, Web Design
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Blue Books
Wouldn’t it be nice if there existed a web page containing links to all the Blue Books for the states? There are two: ALA’s GODORT Wiki Bradley University’s Wiki If you look under the history tab for each of the … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Libraries, Periodicals, Politics, Statistics
Tagged Bradley University, web page containing
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Intergovernmental Organizations Search
David Oldenkamp of Indiana University has put together a Google Custom Search (see my post here) called International Documents that searches selected Intergovernmental Organization’s (IGO) web sites. Very handy when you need that type of information. Someone ought to collect … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Libraries, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged David Oldenkamp, Google, Indiana University, Intergovernmental Organization, James Jacobs
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FirstGov.gov is now USA.gov
Time to change your links… the site formerly known as FirstGov.gov is now USA.gov. The search page is USASearch.gov. Easier for people to remember, once they get used to the change! from ResourceShelf
Posted in Government, Libraries, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Governor, search page, United States
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