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The mission of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) is to (1) To provide a forum for discussion of problems, concerns, and for exchange of ideas by librarians working with government documents; (2) to provide a force for initiating and supporting programs to increase availability, use, and bibliographic control of documents; (3) to increase communication between documents librarians and other librarians; (4) to contribute to the extension and improvement of education and training of documents librarians.

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Margaret T. Lane / Virginia F. Saunders Memorial Research Award

  • 1.  Margaret T. Lane / Virginia F. Saunders Memorial Research Award

    Posted Oct 29, 2010 12:02 PM

    Be on the lookout for articles citing gov docs!   

    GODORT’s new award, the Margaret T. Lane / Virginia F. Saunders Memorial Research Award is given to the author(s) of an outstanding research article in which government information forms a substantial part of the documented research.  The article must be published during 2010. 

     To nominate an article, please send me (asevetson@hotmail.com) the following information:

     Citation information for nominated article:

    Title:

    Journal name:

    Volume/issue/pages:

    Author(s) name:

    Please include your name and contact information so that the committee may contact you if there is a problem getting a copy of the article.

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    The note about the 2010 recipient is as follows:  The recipient of the first Margaret T. Lane / Virginia F. Saunders Memorial Research Award is Dr William V. Ackerman for his article “Indian Gaming in South Dakota: Conflict in Public Policy” printed in American Indian Quarterly, Spring 2009 (vol. 33, no. 2) pages 253-79.

     Dr. Ackerman used state and federal statutes, codes, Supreme Court Reports, the National Atlas, Web sites and more to argue that the United States has a problem with the reasonable management of Native American gaming, a problem that is not being solved by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA). The IGRA, rather than providing a solution to Indian gaming issues, is a prescription for litigation between the tribes and the states. Dr. Ackerman is an Associate Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University in Lima.