Day archives: August 21st, 2011

U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2010

U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2010 “This analysis examines the level and drivers of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2010. After a historic decline in 2009, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rebounded in 2010, but still remain 358 million metric tons (6 percent) below the 2005 level. What happened to carbon dioxide emissions from energy use …

Subjects: Government Documents

Seeking Synchronicity: Revelations and Recommendations for Virtual Reference

Update, November 30, 2011: Seeking Synchronicity Webinar Recording Now Available OCLC – “A new membership report from OCLC Research, in partnership with Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Seeking Synchronicity distills more than five years of virtual reference (VR) research into a readable summary that features memorable quotes that vividly illustrate very specific and …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

Freedom House Releases Special Report on 20th Anniversary of Failed Soviet Coup

“Freedom House launched a special report, Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On, to mark the 20th anniversary of the failed Soviet coup of August 19, 1991. A retrospective essay examining changes in the state of political rights and civil liberties in the former Soviet Union over the last two decades, as well …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents

Google Street View goes to the Amazon

“With Google Street View, you can do amazing things such as hike around Stonehenge or even ski down Whistler’s slopes—all without leaving home. Soon, you’ll be able to float down the Amazon and Rio Negro Rivers of northwest Brazil and experience some of the most remote and biodiverse areas in the world. A few members …

Subjects: Search Engines

A pocket Congress – track elected officials, read the latest bills and laws

“The government apps and mobile sites allow you to access official information on various topics from the palm of your hand. Learn more about apps.” Congress – A Pocket Directory – Sunlight Labs – “track elected officials, read the latest bills and laws. Want to know more about Congress?: Find your representatives by your location; …

Subjects: E-Government, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation

OMB Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Guidance

Jacob J. Lew, OMB, Director: “The President has defined our fiscal challenge as demonstrating that we can live within our means so that we can invest in job creation and economic growth now and in the long term. In April, he proposed a balanced framework for $4 trillion in deficit reduction that would put us …

Subjects: Government Documents