Tag: Government
Librarian of Congress Appoints Jennifer Meehan Director of Special Collections
From the Library of Congress: Jennifer Meehan, head of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State University, has been named director of the Library of Congress’ Special Collections Directorate effective Aug. 1. Meehan’s career spans over 18 years in academic and research institutions in positions of progressive responsibility including 14 years of management […]
Nice! Searchable Legislative Data for All 50 States, DC, and Puerto Rico Now Available From Sunlight Foundation’s Open States Project
From the Sunlight Foundation Blog: Open States is the only comprehensive database [it’s also free to access and use] of activities from all state capitols that makes it easy to find your state lawmaker, review their votes, search for legislation, track bills and much more. If you’re curious about a particular piece of legislation, Open […]
History: French Holocaust Records Exhibited For 1st Time
From the AP (via AJC): They are among France’s darkest days: Police dragged over 13,000 Jews from their homes, confined them in a Paris cycling stadium with little food or water, and then deported them to their deaths in the concentration camp at Auschwitz. But even in France, one of the most brazen collaborations between […]
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Canada: Alberta’s Government Launches Database of Companies Who Owe Employees Money
From The Calgary Herald: Alberta bosses who don’t pay their employees will have their names posted online for all to see, the province announced Tuesday. Human Services Minister Dave Hancock said roughly 1,700 employers owe 3,500 Alberta workers more than $14 million in unpaid earnings. Their names are now listed in a searchable online database. […]
New: GovTrack Now Offers Legislation Tracking (Beta) For All 50 States (Free)
GovTrack is a free service that allows users to track federal legislation. Now, you can do the same thing for the 50 states. Note that state tracking is a beta release that went live today. A GovTrack Blog Post Shares What’s New: 50-State Bill Search (searching titles and summaries) State bill status, such as for Indiana […]
Reference: U.S. Federal Government Launches Publicly Accessible Database of Consumer Credit Card Complaints
The database is being made available online by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB). No longer will consumer complaints only be known to the individual complainant, bank, regulator, and those in the public willing to pursue this information through the Freedom of Information Act. Instead this data-rich window into consumer financial issues will be widely […]
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New Working Paper: “Wikipedia Perpetuates Political Bias”
Title Collective Intelligence and Neutral Point of View: The Case of Wikipedia Authors Shane Greenstein Northwestern U. Feng Zhu USC Source National Bureau of Economic Research Abstract We examine whether collective intelligence helps achieve a neutral point of view using data from a decade of Wikipedia’s articles on US politics. Our null hypothesis builds on […]
U.S. Census Releases New Version of OntheMap for Emergency Management Interactive Web App
From a U.S. Census E-Mail: New features in the Census Bureau’s OnTheMap application improve access to workforce and demographic statistics for emergency preparedness, response and recovery activities. The application automatically incorporates real-time data updates from the National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center, Department of Interior, Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). New […]
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Ready Reference: Congressional Liaison Offices of Selected Federal Agencies (From CRS)
A 39 page report (w/ directory data) from the Congressional Research Service via the University of North Texas Digital Library. Author Audrey Celeste Crane-Hirsch Information Research Specialist This list of about 150 congressional liaison offices is intended to help congressional offices in placing telephone calls and addressing correspondence to government agencies. In each case, the […]
Reference: National Archives (UK) and Wikimedia UK Make Digitized World War II Art Available Online
Historic digitized art is being made available through a partnership between the National Archives (UK) and Wikimedia UK. The content is public domain. From Today’s Announcement: Hundreds of original wartime art works are going online following a partnership between The National Archives and Wikimedia UK. Photographed with a digitisation grant from Wikimedia UK, the collection […]
