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LexisNexis Statistical

U.S. Government Documents - Research Guide

U.S. Congressional Hearings - Research Guide

THOMAS

LexisNexis State Capital

LexisNexis Congressional

Converting the Historic GPO Shelflist

Cooperative Cataloging for Pre-1976 U.S. Government Publications

Dated June 2006

ALA/GODORT Cataloging Committee Toolbox for Processing and Cataloging Federal Government Documents

GODORT's Toolbox for Processing and Cataloging Federal Government Documents

GovDoc [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]

The OCLC GovDoc service, available to regional and selective depository libraries, provides up-to-date, MARC-format cataloging records for U.S. government documents. As a GovDoc subscriber, your library regularly receives bibliographic records for only the government documents it holds. GovDoc is available to all federal depository libraries-institutional OCLC membership is not required to use the service.

public.resource.org

An attempt to gather the documents (images, videos, etc) from the US government and put them on the web.

STAT-USA

STAT-USA provides economic, business, and social/environmental data collected by over 50 government agencies. STAT-USA is a product of the Economics and Statistics Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. National and International Data is available.

Statistical Abstract of the United States - U.S. Census Bureau

The National Data Book. Annual statistics, 1878-present covering population, vital statistics, health and nutrition, education, law enforcement, courts, and prisons, geography and environment, etc. Comparative international statistics are also provided. Also provides bibliographic citations to more detailed sources of statistical information.

FedStats

Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies

The U.S. Constitution

The Constitution of the United States.

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

Prelinger Library Blog: Google Book Search treats government documents as copyrighted material

A post describing the Google Books policy regarding government publications and the public domain. Arggh

OpenCongress

OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to help make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation.

OpenCongress brings together, for the first time in one place, all the best data on what's really happening in Congress:

    * Official Congressional information from Thomas, made available by GovTrack.us: bills, votes, committee reports, and more.
    * News articles about bills and Members of Congress from Google News.
    * Blog posts about bills and Members of Congress from Google Blog Search and Technorati.
    * Campaign contribution information for every Member of Congress from the website of the non-profit, non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, OpenSecrets.org.
    * Congress Gossip Blog: a blog written by the site editors of OpenCongress that highlights useful news and blog reporting from around the web. The blog also solicits tips, either anonymous or attributed, from political insiders, citizen journalists, and the public in order to build public knowledge about Congress.

Economic Indicators

The main economic indicators of the day with links from the Census.

City of Philadelphia, five-year financial plan : fiscal year ...

Philadelphia (Pa.). Mayor. . City of Philadelphia, five-year financial plan : fiscal year ... [Philadelphia, PA : Office of the Mayor,
Call#: Van Pelt Library HJ9013.P6 P464

More recent plans can be found at: http://www.phila.gov/reports/index.html

Index to current urban documents.

[0046-8908 ] Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1972-
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HT123 .I453

(from cover page)The Index to Current Urban Documents makes available complete and detailed bibliographic descriptions of the majority of the local government documents issued annually by the largest cities and counties in the United States and Canada. With the cooperation and assistance of local government officials, public libraries, municipal reference libraries and major research libraries, the program attempts to catalog and index documents issued by 286 of the larger cities and their counties and regions." Copies of the documents themselves can be found in the accompanying microfilm collection in the Government Documents room.

Most useful for documents from 1972-late 90's, but other documents are included. Each volume includes two indexes: a geographical index and a subject index.

Personnel for the new diplomacy, report.

Committee on Foreign Affairs Personnel.. Personnel for the new diplomacy, report.[Washington, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace], 1962.
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab 353.1 C73

Safe Harbor

Census of Governments PDF Publications

Data on governments cover every level of government and subjects ranging from property taxes to prosecutions, from long-term debt to liquor monopolies. Federal, State, and local government officials in administration, fiscal planning, and other areas, use governments data widely. Publications from 1991-2002

Finances of Municipal and Township Governments: 2002 (pdf)

City government revenues and expenditures from the 2002 Census of Governments.

OFFSTATS

Links to official statistics of foreign countries from the University of Aukland. Statistics by country, region, and topic.

Congress votes database | washingtonpost.com

This site, washingtonpost.com's U.S. Congress Votes Database, is a deep database of every vote in the United States Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991). It lets you browse votes in a variety of ways -- both in aggregate and for individual members of Congress.

Browse the database by drilling down to a particular Congress (e.g. 109th Congress) or particular member (e.g. 109th Congress senators).

This site publishes an RSS feed of recent votes by each member of Congress, and a feed of the most recent votes in both chambers. See the RSS page for full details.

This site is generally updated every day, although there is a delay between a vote in Congress and its appearance on the official Congress Web sites.

Census Transportation Planning Package from BTS

Download Tables from the CTTP by tract, county, state, etc. The best place for demographics by place of work.

GOS - Geospatial One Stop - Hurricane Katrina Resources

Federal Gateway to information about Katrina in New Orleans. Includes maps, GIS data, interactive mapping packages, etc.