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Impact of Google Book Search Has Many Dimensions

Google Book Search: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, 1/1/2008, By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology. “Forget everything you believe about Google’s book digitization project. Once you get past the freakishly high numbers bandied about, the two-dozen-plus distinguished institutions that have signed on, the legal paranoia and the ultra-ultra-secret processes and technologies involved-you’ll find that …

Subjects: Copyright, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

GAO Reports: Defense Acquisitions, Defense Business Transformation, Testing of Voting Systems

Capitol Visitor Center: Update on Status of Project’s Schedule and Cost as of February 7, 2008, GAO-08-475T, February 7, 2008 Defense Acquisitions: DOD’s Practices and Processes for Multiyear Procurement Should Be Improved, GAO-08-298, February 7, 2008 Defense Business Transformation: Sustaining Progress Requires Continuity of Leadership and an Integrated Approach, GAO-08-462T, February 7, 2008 Defense Logistics: …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Quarterly Indicators: The Economy and Small Business

Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy: “The U.S. economy was weaker in the fourth quarter of 2007, with real GDP ending the year at a 0.6 percent annualized growth rate. The weaker dollar helped boost real exports, which increased at an annualized 3.9 percent, while real imports were constant. Consumer spending increased by an annualized …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Recently Released DOJ OIG Audits

D-2008-047 Contingency Planning for DoD Mission-Critical Information Systems, February 5, 2008 (Project No. D2007-D000LB-0080.000) D-2008-046 Defense Finance and Accounting Service Compliance with the Debt Collection and Improvement Act of 1996 for the Department of the Navy, February 6, 2008 (Project No. D2006-D000FC-0186.000) D-2008-045 Controls Over the TRICARE Overseas Healthcare Program, February 7, 2008 (Project No.D2005-D000LF-0267.000) …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents