GODORT (Government Documents Round Table)

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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.

Learn more about GODORT on the ALA website.

  • 1.  New GODORT Help! Webinar

    Posted Nov 23, 2021 09:58 AM
    Hi,

    Help! I'm an Accidental Government Information Librarian presents...Hawaiʻi Government Information: From an Internationally Recognized Independent Kingdom to an Illegally Occupied American State

    Hawaiʻi's government documents span various eras of Hawaiʻi's political history. This session will cover Hawaiʻi government documents from the establishment of a unified Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by Kamehameha I in the early 1800s through its years as an independent sovereign nation until the kingdom was illegally overthrown in 1893 by a provisional government. The session will then review documents of the Republic of Hawaiʻi (1894-1898), the 1898 annexation of Hawaiʻi by the United States, the Territory of Hawaiʻi from 1900-1959, and statehood beginning in 1959. Important resources for government information from these political eras, including maps, will be discussed.
    Kapena Shim is a Hawaiʻi Specialist librarian in the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library. He is also an adjunct instructor in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library and Information Science Program. He lives in ahupuaʻa Haleaha in the moku of Koʻolauloa on the mokupuni of Oʻahu.
    Gwen Sinclair chairs the Government Documents & Maps Department at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Library. She is also an adjunct instructor in the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Library and Information Science Program and the author of the open textbook "Government information: a reference for librarians in Hawai'i."She lives in the ahupuaʻa of Honolulu in the moku of Kona on the mokupuni of Oʻahu.

    We will meet online on Monday,December 13, 2021, from 2:00 PM- 3:00 PM (Eastern).Please note the time!

    RSVP for the session using this link:https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sbDsOqkLTN2BIxbJDXA2cA

    The session will be recorded and available after the live session on our YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6CfualeU8N77us06prY10Q



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    Lynda Kellam
    Senior Data Librarian
    Cornell Center for Social Sciences, Cornell Univ.
    She/Her/Hers
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