Category «Libraries»

University of Michigan Library – Guide to Elections 2008

Documents Center, University Library, University of Michigan, Guide to Elections 2008. Choose this web guide as your basis for any aspect of election related research. It is comprehensive, current, and presents a wide spectrum of state and federal resources, as well as annotated links to free and fee-based publications, subscription services, and online guides maintainted …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Libraries

NEA Report: – To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence

National Endowment for the Arts Report: To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence: “This report is a new and comprehensive analysis of reading patterns of children, teenagers, and adults in the United States. To Read or Not To Read assembled data on reading trends from more than 40 sources, including federal …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age

Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age, James Waldo, Herbert S. Lin, and Lynette I. Millett, Editors, Committee on Privacy in the Information Age, National Research Council. “Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, …

Subjects: Internet, Libraries, Privacy

New Monthly Update on Health Care Policy Research and Analysis

“Health Policy Picks is a monthly selection of recent publications, such as technical reports, conference proceedings, and other material produced by organizations and government agencies that conduct health care policy analysis and research. Health Policy Picks is a partnership between KaiserEDU.org and the New York Academy of Medicine Library’s Grey Literature Collection…This month’s Health Policy …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

Institute of Museum and Library Services Publishes FY 06 State Library Report

“The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) issued its first library statistics report on state library agencies, on state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for state fiscal year (FY) 2006. The State Library Agency Report for FY 2006 [released November 2007] includes a wide array of information on …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Smithsonian's Tribute to Carl Linnaeus

A Tribute to Carl Linnaeus – November 13 and 14, 2007: “Scientists around the world are celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. He is best known for instituting a two-name method for identifying plants and animals, called binomial nomenclature. Considered the “father” of modern taxonomy, Linnaeus named approximately 4,400 …

Subjects: Government Documents, Libraries

Audit of the Process of Safeguarding and Accounting for Presidential Library Artifacts

Press release – “In a statement issued on Thursday, November 8, 2007, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein said: I welcome the Inspector General’s recommendations included in the ‘Audit of the Process of Safeguarding and Accounting for Presidential Library Artifacts’. This audit which was completed on October 26, 2007, examined the management of Presidential …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Libraries

Public Libraries in the United States: Fiscal Year 2005

National Center for Education Statistics, Public Libraries in the United States: Fiscal Year 2005: “This report includes national and state summary data on public libraries in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with an introduction, selected findings, and several tables. The report, based on data from the Public Libraries Survey for fiscal year …

Subjects: E-Government, Internet, Libraries