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Congress.gov growing

More good news from In Custodia Legis about Congress.gov updates.

Tour Abbey Road studios

Virtually. This article gives a lot of details but the actual link is sort of lost in all the text.  This is a more direct link, but you may have to use Chrome or Safari rather than Firefox.

Google has a map for that - your favorite books

This mash up map works in Chrome - in Firefox, not so much - but it's fun to play around and see locations for a large number of popular books.

New 10 Commandments

A little old but oh so relevant.

Case law on Google Scholar

Over at Law Librarians Blog, Mark Giangrande reported on his recent experiences searching case law on Google Scholar, coming away with a better impression than his earlier forays.

Friday Cat Pix

Cats at work!

Fedflix

FedFlix is Joint Venture NTIS-1832 between the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) and Public.Resource.Org (PRO). The FedFlix project aims to digitize videos from NTIS, DoD and the National Archives and Records Administration, and make these videos available online through YouTube and the Internet Archive. All of the FedFlix films are in the public domain, and span from  1916 to 2014.  You can see gems such as the nuclear paranoid inspired classic "Duck and Cover"and in the Law Resource.org area Sen. Robert Byrd delivering an oration on Roman law.

HSDL blog

The Homeland Security Digital Library has a blog on national security related issues.

Cool regionalisms

Love to see DARE (Dictionary of American Regional English) in the news with some of their quirky word finds. I once worked in the building where it all began. And fortunately, they found funding to continue until at least June 2016.

Preserving digital data

The Boston Globe has an article The race to preserve disappearing data. There is more bad news about government data, too.

Caturday Cat Pix

So lazy

Crazy palindrome week

The week was insanely busy and so I almost missed this phenomena - all the dates were palindromes and today is the last for a while : 5-15-15.

Cat pix will get their day on Caturday.

Female Superhero Coloring Pages

Female_Superhero_Coloring_Pages.pdf · version 1
Need I say more?

GPO’s FDLP Academy

These sessions are presented virtually through GPO’s FDLP Academy. Presenters from GPO, other Federal Government agencies, and from Federal depository libraries across the Nation will present on topics related to Federal Government information and the Federal Depository Library Program.

Don’t miss these upcoming, one-hour webinar sessions:

·         Cybersecurity: A Shared Responsibility with Infinite Opportunities, May 13 at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern) http://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-events-calendar/event/50-webinar-cybersecurity-a-shared-responsibility-with-infinite-opportunities

·         Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government, May 14 at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern) http://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-events-calendar/event/51-ben-s-guide-to-the-u-s-government

·         Using Metadata to Navigate GPO’s Federal Digital System, May 19 at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern) http://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-events-calendar/event/52-using-metadata-to-navigate-gpo-s-federal-digital-system

·         Occupational Employment Statistics: Online Data about Occupations from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 21 at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern) http://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-events-calendar/event/53-webinar-occupational-employment-statistics-online-data-about-occupations-from-the-u-s-bureau-of-labor-statistics

·         Cataloging Government Serial Publications using RDA, May 26 at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern) http://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-events-calendar/event/55-cataloging-government-serial-publications-using-rda

Attendees will receive a Certificate of Participation from GPO for each webinar they attend.

GPO’s FDLP Academy offers a wide range of educational opportunities, tools, and resources related to Federal Government information. Learn more here: http://www.fdlp.gov/about-the-fdlp/fdlp-academy.

Guides on Police issues

Here are two, from Temple Univ. and from Florida A&M.

Ghost testimony

OOh, scary.  Elva Zona Heaster: The Ghost Who Helped Solve Her Own Murder.

Lifehacks, pt 1

Odds and ends - even shorter posts than usual.

In Endnote, Command A copies webtext.

Gateguru is an app to help find options for airport food.

Instapaper now has an annotate feature.

Caturday livestreaming

Too bad I discovered this as it could become an obsession.  This is a livestream of some recently born kittens and their awesome mama Eve.

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