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Accountability for U.S. Equipment Provided to Pakistani Security Forces in the Western Frontier Needs to Be Improved, GAO-11-156R, February 15, 2011 Border Security: Preliminary Observations on Border Control Measures for the Southwest Border, GAO-11-374T, February 15, 2011 Federal Mandates: Few Rules Trigger Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, GAO-11-385T, February 15, 2011
The Obama Administrations Open Government Initiative: Issues for Congress, Wendy R. Ginsberg – Analyst in Government Organization and Management, January 28, 2011 “The 112th Congress may oversee the Administrations open government efforts and has the authority to codify any parts of the initiative. This report reviews and discusses the centerpieces of President Obamas transparency initiatives, …
News release: “Last month was the 17th warmest January for combined global land and ocean surface temperature since records began in 1880. La Niña, with its cooling effect on the central and eastern tropical Pacific, continues to be a factor in global ocean temperatures. The monthly analysis from NOAAs National Climatic Data Center is part …
“In 2010, home sales declined to the lowest level since the collapse in the housing market. The CoreLogic research indicates that the most popular measure of existing home sales is overstated by 15% to 20%.” “In November, the CoreLogic repeat sales home price index fell 5.1% from a year ago, the fourth consecutive monthly decline. …
Investigation of the Failure of the SEC’s Los Angeles Regional Office to Uncover Fraud in Westridge Capital Management Notwithstanding Investment Adviser Examination Conducted in 2005 and Inappropriate Conduct on the Part of Senior Los Angeles Official, Case No. OIG-533 [redacted, dated October 26, 2010 and released February 2011] “In all, the OIG searched over 68,000 …
“The President’s Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2012 is now available from the United States Government Printing Office (GPO). The public can search or browse the authentic, electronic version of the budget, which is accessible from GPO’s Federal Digital System. GPO authenticated the document by digital signature. This signature assures the public …
The Triangle Research Libraries Networks Intellectual Property Rights Strategy for Digitization of Modern Manuscript Collections and Archival Record Groups, January 2011 – Laura Clark Brown, Judy Ruttenberg, and Kevin L. Smith, J.D. “Curated online exhibits have dominated the manuscript and archival digitization projects of academic libraries. These exhibits typically present a small number of selected …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission, the nations consumer protection agency, released tips to help people protect their personal information while they use public wireless networks Wi-Fi hotspots in coffee shops, libraries, airports, hotels, universities, and other public places. While convenient, public Wi-Fi networks often are not secure. When using wireless networks, its best …
Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment, Constance Malpas, Program Officer OCLC Research, January 2011 “Analysis of the distribution of subject matter and library holdings represented in the HathiTrust Digital Library and shared print repositories further confirmed that the digital corpus is largely representative of the collective academic library collection, suggesting a …
