USGS calculates annual nitrogen loads to assess impacts from septic tank systems in Spanish Springs Valley, NV.

This very important 12-page report titled " Qualification of the Contribution of Nitrogen from Septic Tanks to Ground Water in Spanish Springs Valley, Nevada" has been released as and can be assessed on line in PDF as USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5206.

An interesting report from The Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives.


House Committee Print 109-CAn Examination of Federal 9/11 Assistance to New York: Lessons Learned in Preventing Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Lax Management, A Staff Report of the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight of the Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives.

My next post will focus on a few local Nevada govdocs.

Poverty in the United States

Lots of good information at the U.S. Census Bureau Poverty Page.

Genealogical Resources in U.S. Federal Depository Libraries Guide



Division of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, has revised its Genealogical Resources in U.S. Federal Depository Libraries guide.
Enlarged and expanded to 47 pages, it includes active links for most
titles cited, which range from websites such as the Railroad Retirement
Board and Social Security Death Index to printed publications such as
Black Americans in Defense of Our Nation, Decorations-- United States
Army 1862-1926, and Register of the U.S. Department of Justice and the
Federal Courts to government periodicals such as Bureau of Ships Journal
and U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps Bulletin. It includes many resources
that you might not have thought of otherwise, and is probably the most
comprehensive guide currently available to these resources.
It is divided into these chapters: Federal Web Sites; Military Casualty
Lists and Decorations, Awards, Honors; Military Registers, Annual
Reports, and Historical Lists; Registers, Directories, and Annual
Reviews and Reports; Primarily Historical Works; Military Academies and
Academic Units; Periodicals; and Miscellaneous.
It is currently available from the Oklahoma Department of Libraries
homepage

A few docs from the City of Sparks, NV

2005-2006 City Budget-In Brief

2005-2006 Strategic Plan Update

Capital Improvement Program (CIP) 2006-2011

Sparks Marina Canal Updates

Senate Intelligence Committee Reports - Iraq and WMD



The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released a couple of new
unclassified reports on Iraq and their pre and post war assessments of
Iraq's WMD capabilities.
They can be found at http://intelligence.senate.gov/

Public use of computers for government info


GPO understands the desire to serve a library's primary users. However,
depository libraries must also serve the government information needs of the
general public. While time limits can be included in a depository's written
Internet access policy, they cannot be targeted at public users of
electronic government information. Depository libraries must provide access
to electronic Federal government information to all users equally,
regardless of whether they are the library's primary users.
This requirement is explained in the Depository Library Public Service
Guidelines for Government Information in Electronic Formats, available at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/mgt/pseguide.html
The policy states that "depository libraries should have a written policy regarding
public services for Government information in electronic formats. This
policy should contain provisions for no-fee access to computer workstations
with CD-ROMs, diskettes, and the Internet. These should be equal to or
exceed the services provided for other collections of the library."
However, there are options available to depository libraries that wish to
impose time limits on non-primary user groups. For example, one or more
computer workstations, that are not subject to the time limit, could be set
aside for users of depository materials. The time limit could also be waived
for users for government information.

Evergreen FDLP Hot Topics

Carlos Diaz, Govdocs Librarian at the Evergreen State College Library in Washington, builds and maintains a wonderful government information source called Hot Topics.

Check it out !!!

The first digital works resulting from the
University of Michigan/Google Digitization Partnership are now being
used to enhance the University Library's online catalog...
Included in the material will be the University's extensive federal
government document collection. A small sampling of documents
available today includes the diplomatic correspondence of Benjamin
Franklin and John Adams, and approximately 2,200 Congressional
hearings from the 1970s and 1980s."
Information on the U of M Library

Information on the U of M online catalog

Information on M Books

Up to date voting information from Washoe County

The voting is complete and the votes are being tabulated in the 2006 Primary Election for Washoe County.
They are posting the latest information for you on the Registrar of Voter's website, at http://www.washoecounty.us/voters.
And, for the first time, Washoe County is testing a new vote mapping feature to give you a visual view of selected races as they happen. To see the test maps, click here to go to the GIS vote mapping feature...

Citizenship

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (formally INS) Has guides for those
desiring to become citizens at their Office of Citizenship webpage.

From the webpage:

The Office of Citizenship is mandated by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to promote instruction and training on citizenship rights and responsibilities and to provide immigrants with information and tools necessary to successfully integrate into American civic culture.Our primary focus will be on providing information and resources to immigrants at two key points in their journey towards civic integration: when they first become permanent residents and when they are ready and eligible to begin the formal naturalization process.

Nevada Agricultural Publications

Amy Shannon, Head Librarian at the Life and Health Science Library at the University of Nevada, Reno has a great site called Nevada Agricultural Publications.

You can search this website for federal, state , and local government publications relating to Nevada agriculture from 1888 to present--Cowabunga !!!

EPA Libraries

The Environmental Protection Agency has been ordered by the White House to "shut down [its] libraries, end public access to research materials and box up unique collections on the assumption that Congress will not reverse President Bush’s proposed budget reductions." Fifteen states will lose library service immediately.

Iran Report


Yesterday, August 23, 2006, the House Intelligence Committee released a
report done by the staff of the Intelligence Policy Committee titled
Recognizing Iran as a strategic threat: an intelligence challenge for
the United States. It is getting a variety of interesting comment and
reaction from various aspects.
You can access the report at:
http://intelligence.house.gov/Media/PDFS/IranReport082206v2.pdf

A special thank you to Tim Skeers of the New Mexico State Library for this information.

Nevada Legal Forms

The Nevada Supreme Court Law Library has put together great links to many downloadable (PDF)
forms.

Forms by Subject

Nevada Supreme Court Forms

Washoe County Forms and Packets

Clark County Forms


Standardized Nevada Divorce Forms

US Missile Information

According to a Yahoo News article, US makes missile data secret again .

TMRPA Publications
Publications are available from the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Agency. They are available to download from their website at no cost, or may be purchased in hard-copy .

Domesday Book Online

I usually focus on US documents, but I thought this was pretty cool. The Domesday Book, the UK's oldest surviving public record, has been made available by the UK National Archives. The public can now search the 920-year old Book by name of town, city or village. In 2005 it was voted the nation's finest treasure, yet a recent survey conducted in conjunction with today´s launch revealed that less than 1 per cent of the population have actually been to see the original in The National Archives' museum.
At Christmas 1085 William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey to discover the resources and taxable values of all the boroughs and manors in England. He wanted to discover who owned what, how much it was worth, and how much was owed to him as King. It was a massive enterprise, and the record of that survey, Domesday Book, was a remarkable achievement.

Thank you to Free Government Information for this entry.

Voter Information

Two great sites for candidate information online.

Reno Gazette-Journal's 2006 Voter Guide

Project VoteSmart

Article in Smithsonian (online also) Magazine



Take a look at August 2006 Smithsonian which
includes a very interesting article about the loss of the official records
of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. This article talks about
a researcher looking for those records and the frustration in finding they
were lost but fortunately, he found personal records from the attorney who
defended the owners of factory and then the digitization of those records.
The title of the article is "Trial by Fire" by David Von Drehle pp. 93-98.

Smithsonian Magazine is a government document.