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

The Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) has improved navigation pathways to their myriad products and services.  In addition to a list of DOE databases by content type, they link to:

ScienceAccelerator.gov
Science.gov
WorldWideScience.org

New features include ‘Science Showcase’ and ‘From the Director’, highlighting exciting ideas, science information, tools and services. They also provide ideas on how to tag their website information via their ‘Suggested Tags cloud’ and offer an easy path to users’ favorite pages .

The ‘Read, Listen and Share’ box provides interactive features.

Check out the cool new OSTI website today!

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

Treaties in Force is prepared by the Department of State for the purpose of providing information on treaties and other international agreements to which the United States has become a party and which are carried on the records of the Department of State as being in force as of its stated publication date, January 1, 2009.

A paper edition of this government document is forthcoming and will be available for checkout at call number S 9.14:

In the meantime, you may access the electronic edition of Treaties in Force, presented in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, which allows text searches and printing of individual pages or the entire document. It is available here: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/122713.pdf

Brought to you by Government Documents Librarian, Lori Lester.

Want to be an informed citizen? Ready for an easier way to keep up? Now you can read about everything that is going on in Congress more easily than ever before. Don’t settle for what the media reports. See the Congressional Record Daily Digest for yourself using THOMAS’s new RSS feed.

The Daily Digest is now available as the first RSS feed from THOMAS
(http://thomas.loc.gov/home/rss/dd.xml).

Recommended to you by Government Documents Librarian, Lori Lester.

(Wondering what RSS is and how to use it?  Click here.)

Check out this new resource from the US Government Printing Office (GPO):  Federal Digital System (FDsys)

Click here for the announcement, including a video clip, from the Public Printer of the United States.

According to Lori Lester, our Government Documents Librarian, “This database will gradually replace GPOAccess. For the time being, we will use both.”

http://www.recovery.gov/

“Recovery.gov is a website that lets you, the taxpayer, figure out where the money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going. There are going to be a few different ways to search for information. The money is being distributed by Federal agencies, and soon you’ll be able to see where it’s going – to which states, to which congressional districts, even to which Federal contractors.”

Recommended to you by Government Documents Librarian, Lori Lester.

Robert S. Cameron has created a very thorough work on this topic; tanks and their emergence in the U.S. Army. Cameron has included practically anything one would want to know about armor units for the United States in WWI and WWII, with chapters ranging from their transportation to battle as well as more specific topics. The author has also included many pictures, charts, and maps that will help the reader comprehend this subject much more easily. This book is great for anyone who needs to learn more about WWI and WWII armor units from the United States perspective, as well as anyone who just wants to learn more about tanks in general.

This book will be available for checkout shortly at: D 114.19:M 71

Brought to you by Government Documents Librarian, Lori Lester, and Government Documents Student Assistant, Chris Booth.

It’s tax time again!

Get your federal tax forms here: http://irs.gov/

and your Georgia forms here:  http://tinyurl.com/8klm7q

We have reproducible copies of various federal forms for 2008 in the Government Documents Reference section at T 22.57:1132/2008 on 2nd floor. Previous tax years 2004-2007 are available in our Government Documents collection on 1st floor at T 22.57:1132/(year).

Ask for Lori Lester at the Learning Commons desk, send an e-mail to  lllester@georgiasouthern.edu  or call 478-5032 for questions.

The House Homeland Security Committee released a majority staff report
today indicating the country is not ready for Pandemic Flu.  The report
is entitled “Getting Beyond Getting Ready for Pandemic Influenza” and is
available at:

http://homeland.house.gov/SiteDocuments/20090114124322-85263.pdf

According to the press release, the report “examines the Nation’s state
of preparedness and response capabilities in the event of a pandemic
influenza outbreak. It identifies sixteen weaknesses in the outgoing
Bush Administration’s approach to get prepared for pandemic influenza.
In addition, the report provides fifteen critical recommendations for
what Congress, the incoming Administration, and the public and private
sectors can do to achieve National readiness to combat this threat.”

http://homeland.house.gov/press/index.asp?ID=3D416=20

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

The New Member Pictorial Directory: 111th Congress is now available on GPO Access at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pictorial/111th/newmems.html.

Files in the browse table are available as PDF files. The full New Member Pictorial Directory
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pictorial/111th/pdf/fulldoc.pdf is also available in its entirety, as a single PDF file.

This publication is available to the public in online format only. This preliminary version will be superseded by the Congressional Pictorial Directory for the 111th Congress, which will be printed and distributed to depository libraries in the near future.

For earlier print editions of the Congressional Pictorial Directory, see Y 4.P 93/1:1 P/ in the Government Documents stacks on first floor. For online editions back to the 105th Congress, see http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pictorial/.

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

New edition: United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, aka Plum Book

The 2008 edition of the United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, commonly known as the Plum Book, is now available from the U.S. Government Printing Office.

Alternately prepared after each Presidential election by the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Government Reform, the Plum Book provides comprehensive information on thousands of Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the Federal  government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment, nationwide. It provides a current list of data, which includes the following major categories of positions:

*  Executive Schedule and salary-equivalent positions paid at the rates
established for levels I through V of the Executive Schedule;
*  Senior Executive service “General” positions;
*  Senior Foreign Service positions;
*  Schedule C positions excepted from the competitive service by the
President, or by the Director, Office of Personnel Management, because
of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties;
*  Other positions at the GS-14 and above level excepted from the
competitive service by law because of the confidential or
policy-determining nature of the position duties.

The Plum Book also provides information on SES appointments. Additionally, appendices provide information on the positions listed and the Federal salary schedules under which they are paid.

The digital version is available on GPO Access at
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plumbook/2008/index.html. It has been made available in its entirety, as a single PDF file. GPO has refined the 2008 Plum Book by adding bookmarks to it and optimizing it for the web. The report is also available as a collection of smaller PDFs arranged in a browse table based on the Plum Book’s table of contents. You can download entire chapters, or just information on individual commissions, councils, corporations, departments, offices, etc.

Copies are available for purchase at: http://bookstore.gpo.gov under
S/N: 052-070-07534-1.

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