Guide to Finding Federal Gov’t Info on the Web
How to Effectively Locate Federal Government Information on the World Wide Web. Authors: Sherry DeDecker and Patricia Cruse, University of California. Updated: January 6, 2004.
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Finding Aid to Bush Papers When Governor of Texas
The Memory Hole has published links to the Inventories of George W. Bush’s Gubernatorial Papers, held by the Texas State Archives.
Coalition Sponsors New Website With Focus on Access to Gov’t Docs.
A coaliton comprised of library associations and advocacy groups with a strong interest in freedom of information, has launched a new website, still under construction, called OpenTheGovernment.org. The group is seeking public contributions of the “ten most wanted government documents” to be posted to the site. Areas of interest include national security, environment, health and …
beSpacific Will Return to Weekday Updates on March 29
Subjects: BlogsContinued Questions on Administration Handling of Info
When Spin Spins Out of Control: “From scientific data to health facts to intelligence in the war in Iraq, the Bush White House has been dogged by a string of high-profile controversies over how it handles information.”
Tracking Federal Campaign Contributions
FundRace2004’s searchable database provides information on federal election campaign contributions made by individuals in the amount of $200 and above. Users may search by a combination of address and zip code (results on zip code alone result when no data is available by specific address), or by last name or first and last name combination. …
Presentation on Blogging and RSS
Jenny Levine and Steven Cohen’s 110 page pdf presentation, from the 2004 Computers in Libraries conference.
NSA Issues Final FOIA Rule
DoD: National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS), Freedom of Information Act Program, Final rule, March 19, 2004 [Federal Register] “This part implements the Freedom of Information Act, as amended. It assigns responsibility for responding to written requests made pursuant to the Act and provides for the review required to determine the appropriateness of classification.”
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A Selected Bibliography on the Freedom of Information Act, 1980-2004 Public Libraries and the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA): Legal Sources – Updated Metaforix@Health: Keeping Up With Health Trends Online Through E-Letters Notes from the Tech Trenches: Cost Effective Research Wisdom From the Grammar Goddess: Commas Many Agency Websites Play Hide and Seek With FOIA …
Yahoo Adds Enhancements to News Search
What’s new with Yahoo! News Search? “Yahoo! News Search gives you access to over 7,000 news sources from around the world.”
Proper Pronunciation is Important
100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English [Hot Links]
TSA to Get Privacy Czar
From UPI: “Acting chief of the Transportation Security Administration, David M. Stone told lawmakers that he would shortly appoint a special privacy officer and an external privacy oversight board to calm public fears about the Big Brother character of the agency’s computerized passenger threat profiling system. Press release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released a …
