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Free Webinar: Business Trends and Outlook Survey

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Nov 25, 2024 03:39 PM
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Learning outcomes: This webinar will introduce you to the Business Trends and Outlook Survey, its history, structure, output options, and how to create customized data. Learn about a near "real-time" business data source from the U.S. Census Bureau that is better than online polling. Every two weeks, ...

RE: Join GODORT during ALA Annual in Chicago

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Jun 16, 2023 01:04 PM
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Hi Robbie, I am going over my ALA Schedule and discovered these two GODORT presentations not included in the Scheduler: Discussion theme: Government documents in history research Government documents serve as an important type of primary source material for historical research. Nevertheless, ...

How did the voting out the ALA Constitution ballot question come out?

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Apr 12, 2023 02:34 PM
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Congratulations to Cindy for winning the Presidency. I'm very interested in the other ballot items too.  When will we see the results?

2022 APDU Data Viz Awards: Call for Visualizations

Have you seen great Data Viz from a government agency or using their data? The deadline has been extended to Aug 26. The Association of Public Data Users (APDU) is pleased to announce the 2022 Data Viz Awards. We are again soliciting creative and meaningful graphic designs that use publicly-available ...

2022 APDU Data Viz Awards: Call for Visualizations

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Aug 16, 2022 04:21 PM
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Have you seen great Data Viz from a government agency or using their data? The deadline has been extended to Aug 26. The Association of Public Data Users (APDU) is pleased to announce the 2022 Data Viz Awards. We are again soliciting creative and meaningful graphic designs that use publicly-available ...

RE: Locating Datasets

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Aug 08, 2022 05:05 PM
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Hi, I think this could be a great webinar. Here are my two cents: 1) The best way to identify datasets is by reading through articles to learn where the researcher got their data to get their statistics. Depending on the age of the article, look for graphs or tables in the article to learn where ...

Slides and YouTube: American Library Association (ALA) Demystified

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Jun 03, 2022 03:45 PM
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Hello, Last month I gave a 46 minutes presentation called American Library Association (ALA) Demystified at a DC academic library group meeting. Here is the link to the YouTube American Library Association (ALA) Demystified You are free to use my slides, they are CC:BY,NC,SA ALA and You Please ...

The Journal of Civic Information - seeking submissions

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Mar 02, 2022 01:53 PM
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Sounds up our ally... The Journal of Civic Information - seeking submissions  PLEASE EXCUSE CROSS POSTINGS  The Journal of Civic Information (https://journals.flvc.org/civic) is an open-access, interdisciplinary journal that publishes peer-reviewed research related to the field of accessibility ...

RE: Records Management - Intranet & Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, & Teams

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Feb 07, 2022 03:36 PM
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Hello Jessica,I have an interest in Personal Knowledge Management and would love to see what you come up with. Here at Georgetown �� we have a staff wiki for the purpose of sharing policies and established documents. We use Google Docs for working documents. We use Box for archives. That is not cast ...

Congressional member's family members biographical information

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Dec 13, 2021 10:14 AM
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Hello from a lover of government information, GODORT member, but not a Depository Librarian, I have two requests that came in I need help with: 1) Collecting data on Congresspeople's spouses (particularly their occupation), as well as Congresspeople's pre-congressional careers (particularly those ...

RE: GODORT Statement re: George Floyd

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Jun 08, 2020 03:07 PM
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An idea. I think it would be good if the Historian of GODORT could hold their noses and bring up the systemic stink of Racism.Normally I don't like trigger warnings, but that might have to be used.The crimes and policies and rhetoric of hatred.I don't know where to even start: by time, by agencies, by ...

Learn more about Data in Libraries

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Feb 06, 2020 01:47 PM
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Data in Libraries Webinar Series from RUSA Register for the Whole Series or just one.  Data in Libraries: Data Basics and The Reference Interview - March 4, 2020  As the world embraces data, so must librarians. Increasingly librarians are facing reference interactions that necessitate or ...

Should Libraries Be the Keepers of Their Cities' Public Data?

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Feb 22, 2019 03:56 PM
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This a great opportunity for GODORT to give a link to guidance to local libraries and local governments in the comments section of this article:  Should Libraries Be the Keepers of Their Cities' Public Data? Libraries Want to Change Your Relationship With Public Data CityLab remove pre ...

RE: Update on GODORT's membership

Posted By Jennifer Boettcher Sep 19, 2018 09:22 PM
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All Good Points.There are a lot of users of Federal, State, and Local government information still in ALA. They may not work in depositories, but they might be happy to join GODORT for the extra $20 to show their support and learn more about these gov Info sources. Like I did. I think it's time for GODORT ...