Archive for the ‘Government Documents’ Category
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 - phoebe
Hallie Pritchett, UGA's Government Documents Librarian, announces the debut of the new government documents web site at the UGA Library, available at http://www.libs.uga.edu/govdocs/ She writes:
Over a year in the making, our new site features a new look, updated information about our collections and staff, and an expanded section ...
Posted in Government Documents by phoebe | No Comments »
Saturday, December 4th, 2010 - Kristin Nielsen
If you use government documents in your research, the Government Printing Office wants to hear from you. Please take their brief survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HSLCRRB.
Posted in Government Documents, Library Notes, Resources by Kristin Nielsen | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 - phoebe
Elizabeth White, our librarian for Political Science and Public Policy, has now published a research guide for the 2010 elections. This guide is intended to support both students doing research on the elections and students who plan to vote in them!
There are tabs for Political News, Georgia Elections (including voter ...
Posted in GALILEO, Government Documents, WWW by phoebe | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 20th, 2010 - phoebe
The UGA Map Library has published a new guide giving an overview of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) users and resources available on campus. It includes a list of campus departments, institutes, and other groups using GIS (if your group is not listed, contact the Map Library to have it added!); ...
Posted in Data, Government Documents, Map Library, WWW by phoebe | No Comments »
Monday, September 13th, 2010 - phoebe
Wonder what Athens looked like from the air in the 1950s? The new subject guide for air photographs, produced by the UGA Map Library, will help you discover our print and digitized/online collections of aerial views from Georgia (many available through the Digital Library of Georgia) and around the world.
Click ...
Posted in Digital Library of Georgia, Government Documents, Map Library, WWW by phoebe | No Comments »
Monday, September 6th, 2010 - phoebe
The Map Library at UGA has published a new guide to finding maps, with sections on Georgia maps, United States maps, International maps, Gazetteers, Tools and Definitions, and Reference.
This guide will be of interest to students in a variety of disciplines, including, for example, Biology, Anthropology, Political Science, and Forestry.
Posted in Government Documents, Map Library, WWW by phoebe | 2 Comments »
Monday, July 26th, 2010 - phoebe
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Federal Register Act (passed July 26, 1935), the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) have published federalregister.gov. This site, currently labeled 'beta', is "an ...
Posted in Government Documents, WWW by phoebe | No Comments »
Friday, July 16th, 2010 - Andy Carter
Y2K...anyone? Planes falling from the sky, computers unable to tell time, nano-level Keystone Kops type stuff bringing everything to a complete stop. I forget exactly what the fear was (we'd wake up on the LOST island?).
This First Friday Briefing (pictured) from the Georgia Department of Defense recounts the "sigh of ...
Posted in Digital Library of Georgia, Government Documents by Andy Carter | No Comments »
Monday, May 24th, 2010 - phoebe
UGA librarian Sheila Devaney has published a new subject guide titled The Economy in Georgia: An A to Z Guide to Reference Sources. This guide covers resources for current and historical information, including data and statistics, on Georgia economic issues, listed in a handy alphabetical format by topic, from Agriculture, ...
Posted in Data, Government Documents, Library Notes, Resources by phoebe | No Comments »
Monday, March 1st, 2010 - phoebe
The University of Georgia Libraries have a wealth of information about family history and genealogy - maybe even yours! We now have a new subject guide highlighting some of our print and online resources for finding obituaries, military records, newspapers, census and other vital records, for Georgia and other locations.
The ...
Posted in Books, Collections, GALILEO, Georgia Room, Government Documents by phoebe | 5 Comments »
