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Report to Congress Lays out Plans to Rebuild Physical Collections, Staff Libraries, and Continue to Work with Stakeholders on Future Digitization Plan

News release: “The Special Libraries Association (SLA) today met with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials to review the agency’s report to the U.S. Congress on the future direction of its library network. The report, EPA National Library Network Report to Congress (March 26, 2008), explains the steps EPA intends to take to reopen libraries …

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Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

WSJ: Foreclosure Rate Outpaces Bank Sales

By James R. Hagerty, From The Wall Street Journal Online: “Foreclosures are occurring at the highest rate in decades — and as a result, lenders are acquiring homes faster than they can sell them off. Last year, sales of foreclosed homes rose just 4.4%, while the supply more than doubled, according to First American CoreLogic. …

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Subjects: Knowledge Management

DOE OIG Special Report: Unclassified Foreign Visits and Assignments Program

The Department’s Unclassified Foreign Visits and Assignments Program, March 2008: “The Department of Energy’s national laboratories and various Federal officials interact with thousands of foreign national visitors and assignees every year. Visits and assignments are for a variety of purposes, including research collaborations and access to scientific user facilities. While the Department reports that these …

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Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Hudson Institute Economic Report

Hudson Institute Economic Report (updated bi-weekly and the first Friday of every month), March 14, 2008. “Americans received surprisingly favorable data on inflation this week with news that consumer prices were flat in February. Nevertheless, markets fell due to the financial difficulties of Bear Stearns, the ongoing credit crunch, and the declining dollar, which is …

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Subjects: Knowledge Management

Manuals for Courts-Martial, 2008

“Two major authorities govern the U.S. military justice system, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Manual for Courts-Martial (MCM). Rather than published in revised editions, corrections and changes to early courts-martial manuals —independently prepared by the Army and Navy — were often printed as separate bulletins or announced in periodical literature. Officers …

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Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

State Estimates of Substance Use from the 2005–2006 National Surveys on Drug Use

State Estimates of Substance Use from the 2005–2006 National Surveys on Drug Use, Arthur Hughes, Neeraja Sathe, Kathryn Spagnola. DEPARTMENT OF Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies, February 2008. “This report presents State estimates for 23 measures of substance use or mental health problems based on …

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Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

DOJ OIG: Audit of Department of Justice's Key Indicators

Audit of Department of Justice’s Key Indicators, Audit 08-18, March 2008: “Integrating budget and performance has been an important government initiative to ensure “that performance is routinely considered in funding and management decisions, and that programs achieve expected results and work toward continual improvement.” To measure performance, federal agencies develop long-term strategic plans to provide …

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Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Implementation of Certain Legislative Provisions Relating to the International Monetary Fund

Treasury Department, Legislative Provisions Relating to the International Monetary Fund: A Report to Congress in accordance with Sections 1503 and 1705(a) of the International Financial Institutions Act, Section 801(c)(1)(B) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001 and Section 605(d) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, …

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Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Footnote.com and the National Archives Launch an Interactive Vietnam War Memorial

News release: “Footnote.com and the National Archives and Records Administration held a press conference at the Archives in Washington, DC, to announce the release of an online interactive photo of the Vietnam War Memorial. In addition to releasing this unique version of the Wall, Footnote.com enables visitors to search the Wall [58,000 plus names] for …

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Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents
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