What’s New at the GSU Zach S. Henderson Library

The Mid-Session Review, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal
Year 2009, is now available from GPO at:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy09/pdf/09msr.pdf.

For the first time, the electronic version of the Mid-Session Review for
FY 2009 on GPO Access is digitally signed and certified. The signature
not only establishes GPO as the trusted information disseminator, but
also provides users the assurance that the electronic PDF document has
not been altered since it was disseminated by GPO. For more information
on GPO’s authentication initiatives, visit
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/authentication.

The Mid-Session Review is an annual update of estimates for Federal
receipts and outlays that reflects economic, legislative, and other
changes that have occurred since the President’s Budget was released in
February.

Brought to you by Lori Lester, your very own Government Documents Librarian!

The Intelligence Community has released its new report “Vision 2015: A
Globally Networked and Integrated Intelligence Enterprise.”

According to the excerpt “Vision 2015 expands upon the notion of an
Intelligence Enterprise, first introduced in the National Intelligence
Strategy and later in the 100 and 500 Day Plans. It charts a new path
forward for a globally networked and integrated Intelligence Enterprise
for the 21st century, based on the principles of integration,
collaboration, and innovation.”

The report can be found at http://www.dni.gov/Vision_2015.pdf or from
http://www.dni.gov/index.html

The other previous reports include:

Information Sharing Strategy
http://www.dni.gov/reports/IC_Information_Sharing_Strategy.pdf

Data Mining Report –
http://www.dni.gov/reports/data_mining_report_feb08.pdf

100 Day Plan
http://www.dni.gov/100-day-plan/100_FOLLOW_UP_REPORT.pdf

100 day plan follow up –
http://www.dni.gov/100-day-plan/100_FOLLOW_UP_REPORT.pdf

500 Day Plan
http://www.dni.gov/500-day-plan.pdf
status updates - day 100 –
http://www.dni.gov/500-day-plan/500dp_100.pdf
status updates - day 200 –
http://www.dni.gov/500-day-plan/500dp_200.pdf
status updates - day 300 –
http://www.dni.gov/500-day-plan/500dp_300.pdf

Information provided by Naval Postgraduate School’s Information Services Manager & Homeland Security Digital Library Content Manager, Greta Marlatt.  Brought to you by Lori Lester, your very own Government Documents Librarian!

The National War Powers Commission, co-chaired by Secretaries of State
Baker and Christopher, released a report yesterday. This commission report
recommends that Congress repeal the 1973 War Powers Resolution and
“substitute a new statute that would provide for more meaningful
consultation between the President and Congress. In its final report,
the Commission has recommended that Congress pass a new statute, the War
Powers Consultation Act of 2009, establishing a clear process on
decisions to go to war.”

The main website is
http://millercenter.org/policy/commissions/warpowers/

The final report can be found through the link above or directly at http://tinyurl.com/5lkejj

And the appendices to the report can be found at
http://millercenter.org/policy/commissions/warpowers/appendices

*This information was provided to Lori Lester, the Government Documents Librarian, by Greta E. Marlatt,
Information Services Manager & Homeland Security Digital Library Content Manager at Dudley Knox Library
Naval Postgraduate School, via GOVDOC-L.

Take a look at this wonderful atlas produced by the Census Bureau! When is the last time you saw one of these? The Census Bureau last produced a complete population and housing atlas like this in the 1920’s. This oversized hardbound atlas is filled with colorful depictions of detailed current and historical demographics for the United States, and will be helpful to a wide range of researchers. It is also delightful to browse. This government document is shelved in our Documents Reference collection on the 3^rd floor of Henderson Library, at GOV DOCS REF C 3.205/8-3:29. If you prefer, there is also a PDF here. Read the news release here.

Brought to you by Lori Lester, your very own Government Documents Librarian!

“Protecting the Constitutional Right to Vote for All Americans”: Jonah H Goldman testifies before Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Jonah H Goldman, Director of the National Campaign for Fair Elections and Legal Leader of the Election Protection Coalition, testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Tuesday May 20, 2008. At issue is disfranchisement due to voter ID requirements, military voting problems, technological malfunctions, inaccurate registration lists and poorly trained or poorly provisioned poll workers.

Read his testimony, along with the Election Protection 2008 Primary Report: Looking Ahead to November, here.

Brought to you by Lori Lester, your very own Government Documents Librarian!

Welcome to the inaugural “Hot Docs” post, by your very own Government Documents Librarian, Lori Lester.  She will contribute these items to our blog on a regular basis. Thanks, Lori!

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Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) Releases Report on Security for Mass Gatherings
On May 13, 2008, the Majority Staff of the Committee on Homeland Security, Chaired by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, released “Public Health, Safety, and Security for Mass Gatherings”, a comprehensive report addressing challenges and offering recommendations for ensuring public security in the event of a terrorist act. The report provides 30 recommendations for action by all levels of government and the private sector in situations such as biological terrorism, and also gives advice on planning for emergencies and guidelines for information and resource coordination..

Read the press release.

Read the report.

There is a good possibility the renovation of the Zach S. Henderson
Library will be completed in time that the full building, housing all
our collections, furnishings, and personnel, will be available to the
public by the beginning of fall classes in August of 2008. Meanwhile,
in February of 2008 Georgia Southern University must raze the building
in which the Federal and Georgia documents collection is now temporarily housed. Therefore the documents collection will have to be temporarily housed in other quarters between February and August of 2008.

We have begun moving the most recently published, most often-used, and
reference government documents materials to the publicly accessible
portion of Henderson Library’s third floor. Government documents on
microform will be placed in a storage area on the Library’s bottom
floor and items will be paged for patrons upon demand. In addition, the law collection (which had been housed in the temporary government documents building) will be located on the third floor of the Library. Service for these collections will be offered from the Information Services Desk on the third floor. More information on the relocation is at http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/documents/govdocsmove.html, and more information on the government document collection and services is available at http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/documents/

In order to make room for the government documents and the law collection, the Bound Periodicals published earlier than 2000 have been relocated to the ARC (Automated Retrieval Collection) for the time being. We look forward to having more space on open shelves following the expansion. Thank you for your patience during the final exciting months of the expansion and renovation! As always, our many e-journals are available in our Electronic Journals A-Z list, as well as in the library catalog.

As of 18 January 2008, the Georgia Official and Statistical Register was added as a new, public resource from the Digital Library of Georgia into the GALILEO demo system.  It is available for your preview at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statregister/. 

The Georgia Official and Statistical Register, published from 1923-1990 by the Georgia Department of Archives and History, is commonly known as the Georgia Blue Book. Considered an important reference work for historical research, the Register covers Georgia’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, providing biographical sketches of elected and other state officials. Georgia members of U.S. Congress and federal judges are included, as are county officials and regents of the university system. The Blue Books contain election returns, provide basic reference data on Georgia counties, and cover Georgia miscellany, such as the state flag, state flower, state song, rosters of Georgia governors, and legal holidays. 

The Georgia Official and Statistical Register site is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as a part of the Georgia Government Publications program.

From http://statregister.galileo.usg.edu/statregister/