Office, which provides free electronic access to the official documents of all three branches of the federal government. Documents available on GPO Access include the U.S. Code, congressional bills, legislative…
I heard 3 people last week (and countless others before last week) on radio news and podcasts make erroneous statements about what Metro does. This is nothing new….
…uh, administrative law. 2) If you are researching a rule that is more than a couple years old, some of the documents you will need may not be online. Even…
…to posterity because federal employees, grappling with a staggering growth in electronic records, do not regularly preserve the documents they create on government computers, send by e-mail and post on…
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) awarded their 2017 Public Access to Government Information (PAGI) Award to Laura Orr, the former Washington County Law Librarian (2002-2015). AALL Press…
…to have made any effort to learn.) They also don’t understand that preserving to the people the right to official, authenticated publication of government documents is a battle that law…
There are many new federal government websites (and some that appear to be official government websites but are not, though they can be very useful too –…
Attorney General’s Government Transparency Initiative Excerpt: “Government transparency is vital to a healthy democracy. Public scrutiny helps ensure that government works for the people and spends their tax dollars…
Lawyers in large law firms usually have databases, couriers, professional law librarians and money to help them locate full-text copies of court documents quickly. What are mere mortals to…
…Oregon documents (documents published by State and Territorial governments) which include monographs, serials, audio-visual items and maps from 1851 to the present. The State Library also has manuscripts and photographs…
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