New Discussions @ FGI: May 14, 2007

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This week we started a directory of government agencies with a presence in Second Life and other virtual worlds. Check it out at http://freegovinfo.info/node/1168. So far we have three states and three federal agencies. Expand our list by letting us know about new entrants!

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Angie and the Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info) volunteers were VERY busy this week posting the following stories:

Angie’s posts:

• Map Collections – Treasures of the Library of Congress
• Real-Time Water Data for the Nation
• GPO dives into digital future
• NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
• NASA Global Map Projections online
• TIGER Mapping Service using public geographic census data

Volunteer Posts:

• The Defense Department’s Media War Plan for Iraq – James A.
• ALA Wiki on Federal Libraries Closures – Chris
  
• New Directory: Government Agencies in Virtual Worlds – Daniel
  
• Must see video! Rep. Markey Films from the Chair’s Seat
• BPE 2007 – Why Care about OAI? – Daniel
  
• Congratulations, Susan Nevelow on AALL Award – Daniel
  
• New Crime Podcast by DC Agency – Daniel
  
• BPE 2007 – Building docs collection with Archive-IT- Daniel
• Secrecy News defends public domain from Army – Daniel
• Open Access to Government Research – James A.
• Leslie Harris on CRS Reports – James A.
• Nebraska joins the State Library party on SL – Daniel
• BPE 2007 – Shoestring Repositories – Daniel
• Lunchtime listen: Crisis of the Commons – James R.
• Open House YouTube Video – Daniel
• Two Op-Eds about the Open House Project Report – James A.
• Open House Project Report Released – James A.
• The Wrath of the Library of Congress – James A.
• Spring 2007 DLC page update – Daniel
• Praise for GPO and “bootleg” withdrawal – Daniel
• “Everything is Miscellaneous” – James R.
• BPE 2007 – File Formats and Preservation – Daniel
• BPE 2007 – Tracking New Publications – Daniel
• BPE 2007 Introduction – Daniel
• Montana State Publications via RSS – Daniel
• Wanna Be presidents – James R.
• Librarian of Congress testifies on the 21st century library – James R.

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