USDA Food Safety on Twitter

You may now receive updates regarding food safety information from the USDA on Twitter.

Documents of the Week: United States Department of Justice

Documents from the Department of Justice will be on display this week.

• Domestic Violence by Police Officers
• Use of Computers in the Sexual Exploitation of Children
• Steriod Abuse by School Age Children
• School Disruptions: Tips for Educators and Police
• Our Immigration: A Brief Account of Immigration to the United States
• The Border Patrol: Its Origin and Its Mission
• Help for Victims of Trafficking in Persons and Forced Labor
• But I can Work
• The Department of Justice
• Interpol
• Getting Started as a Federal Judge
• United States History: 1600-1987
• Federal Offenders, 1941
• The FBI: A Centennial History, 1908-2008
• Drugs of Abuse
• Drugs & Terrorism: Teacher Lesson Plans
• Career Resource Centers
• The Sexual Victimization of College Women
• Research on Women and Girls in the Justice System
• Juvenile Justices
• Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report: Murder in Families
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 2003
• Recovery Act Information
  

Department of Defense Recovery Act Projects

The DoD has a Recovery Act site listing their projects since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 distributed $7.4 billion to the DoD.

Latest & Greatest: United States Senate Chamber, 1859-2009

The United States Senate Chamber, 1859-2009, is an overview of the Senate for the past 150 years. At the very least, you will find yourself intrigued by the images. This document is available for your research or reading pleasure.

Image is of the United States Senate in Session. More images are available as well as exhibits, paintings and sculpture from the Art & History section of the United States Senate site.

Documents of the Week: Department of Labor

Our new display will focus on the United States Department of Labor.

• Sexual Harassment
• Pregnancy Discrimination
• Family & Medical Leave
• Age Discrimination
• Timeless Education for a Future World
• Understanding the Department of Labor Solicitation for Grant Applications & How to Write an Effective Proposal
• A Matter of Style at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates and Characteristics, 2005
• Occupational Outlook Quarterly: Careers for Creature Lovers, winter 2006-07
• Extended Mass Layoffs in 2000
  
• Mass Layoffs by Industry in January 2009
• Mass Layoffs in January 2009
• Birmingham, AL National Compensation Survey, February 2000
• Job Safety & Health Quarterly (JSHQ), fall 1999
• Labor Information bulletin, April 1953
• The American Workers' Fact Book, 1956
• National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in Private Industry in the United States, 2005
• Working in the 21st Century
• Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09
  

More Stimulus Watch Sites & Scams

• SBA.gov click on Scam Alert
• Financialstability.gov from the Department of Treasury
  
• Emergency Economic Stabilization Act also from the Department of Treasury
• Congressional Research Reports search
• Congressional Budget Office Stimulus Proposals
• An Act to Provide Economic Stimulus through Recovery Rebates to Individuals, Incentives for Business Investment, and an Increase in Conforming and FHA Loan Limits, Public Law 110-185

Spring Break!!!

Samford University will be celebrating Spring Break March 16-20, 2009. The library hours are noted on the website.

The Documents of the Week display will continue with the Library of Congress.

White House Council on Women and Girls

President Obama Announces White House Council on Women and Girls

Department of Education

The Department of Education has been in the news lately. There's been talk about merit-based pay for teachers, the reality of more folks going back to school after layoffs and money to distribute from the stimulus package. The Department of Education has links to remarks made by President Obama and Ed.gov for recovery information among other timely articles.

Women's History Month

March is Women's History Month. The theme for this year is "Women taking the lead to save our planet."

Documents of the Week: Library of Congress

The Library of Congress, which is near and dear to the hearts of all librarians, is our focus for the next week.

• The Library of Congress, 1981
  
• Growing up on Capital Hill: A young Washingtonian's journal, 1850-1852
• History of the U.S. Army battle command training program, 1986-2003
• The Russian Orthodox Church of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and its relation to Native American Traditions -- an attempt at a multicultural society, 1794-1912
• English defenders of American Freedoms, 1774-1778
• Gathering history: the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana
• Yiddish American popular songs, 1895-1950
• Justifying Jefferson: the Political Writings of John James Beckley
• Leo Lionni at the Library of Congress
• Jefferson's legacy: A brief history of the Library of Congress
• African and Middle East collections
• Aeronautical and astronautical resources of the Library of Congress: a comprehensive guide
• Prints and photographs: an illustrated guide
• Hispanic and Portuguese collections: an illustrated guide
• The geography and map division: a guide to its collections and services
• Blind justice: Jacobus tenBroek and the vision of equality
• The musical mainstream, July-August 1982
• American Poetry at Mid-Century
• Folklife center news, winter 1998
  

HealthReform.gov

HealthReform.gov

"In December 2008, President-elect Obama invited Americans to host and participate in HealthCare Community Discussions to talk about how to reform health care in America.

Over 9,000 Americans in all 50 states and the District of Columbia signed up to host Health Care Community Discussions. Thousands more participated. Friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers, representing the views of both health care patients and providers, came together in homes and offices, coffee shops and fire houses, universities and community centers, all with a common purpose: to discuss reforming the health care system.

After each Health Care Community Discussion, hosts were asked to fill out a Participant Survey and submit a Group Report summarizing the group’s main concerns and suggestions.

The 3,276 group reports were systematically analyzed and the information generated by the Health Care Community Discussions captured in the report, Americans Speak on Health Reform: Report on Health Care Community Discussions.

The Report is being formally presented to President Obama and is the foundation for the March 5 White House Forum on Health Reform, a further public discussion of the need for health reform." from the About HealthReform.gov page

Read the minutes from the Alabama Health Care Community Discussion.

Open.Alabama.gov

A new website, Open.Alabama.gov, has been created for Alabamians to track how our state leaders distribute the money received from the federal stimulus package.

Geography of a Recession

The New York Times has an interactive map, the Geography of a Recession, which shows unemployment rates in the United States. Be sure to read the related article.

Latest & Greatest: Foreign Aid

Have you thought about foreign aid lately? You can, and probably should, search the USAID reports. The reports may be limited by subject (agricultural, economic or health to name a few) or by country. USAID is an independent federal government agency. For more information about USAID, see This Is USAID.

Government Documents has just added the online individual country health statistical reports to our catalog. To search, use the name of the country.

Let's explore USA.gov

USA.gov offers a variety of web 2.0 tools, such as videos, podcasts & RSS feeds. These are found on the Government 2.0 site. May I recommend videos from USA.gov? It opens with the USA.gov videos but you will see options from other channels on the left.