Sure, health care reform is big news, but what about March Madness? Get firsthand information on the presidential picks in this ESPN interview. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCUltDjFrGM] Brought to you by Gleeson Library’s Government Information Librarian, Carol Spector. Find out more about our government information collection by visiting our homepage. Continue reading Obama’s Brackets
Google books has begun adding full text magazines. They have digitized almost 100 magazines, from cover to cover, showing us the ads, pictures, articles. Each magazine seems to vary how far back in time they go. They wrote about adding magazines to google books on their blog a year ago. They are really interesting and … Continue reading Magazines in Google Books
In addition to their usual Google News, Google is trying a new way of presenting news with their Fast Flip. It comes closer to the sensation of standing at a newsstand, just browsing, looking at different articles, different publications. You can click on the arrow on the side of the page to flip through other … Continue reading Google Fast Flip
Check this out: it’s a new opera called “The Gonzales Cantata” based on the testimony of Alberto Gonzales, the former U.S. attorney general, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Here’s a trailer of the opera, featuring Gonzales’ quote, “I don’t recall”: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqCzxXUD–g] See a webcast of the actual hearing at http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=2632 For a brief interview of … Continue reading Congressional Testimony Mashup!
For everyone out there who thought government documents were dull, check this out: President Obama’s brackets for the NCAA Tournament! How cool is that? Update for 2010: see comment below. Continue reading Presidential Brackets
Today marks the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Interestingly a student at Miami University in Ohio recently discovered a rather rare example of Lincoln’s fingerprint on a letter housed in Miami’s library. Thinking about Lincoln’s hands sent me looking for a picture of them from the Lincoln Memorial statue. It turns out there are casts … Continue reading President Lincoln’s fingerprint
Want to know what your President is up to? Find out with The Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents. This resource has been known historically as the “Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents,” but with the new administration, it’s now daily. No more waiting! Continue reading Day by Day with President Obama
Tax season is upon us! Find the forms you need at Gleeson Library|Geschke Center, just inside the access gates. Or find them online at http://www.usfca.edu/library/govdocs/tax.html Continue reading Tax forms are here!
Google is in the process of making available the entire LIFE archive — about 10 million photos. So far, they have digitized and put online about 20% of the collection. From the Google blog post: We’re excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the LIFE photo archive. This effort to bring offline images … Continue reading LIFE Magazine Photo Archive available on Google Image Search
10/21/08 update: The deadline for voter registration in California has passed. See below for info on registering in other states. Voter registration forms are available at the library for San Francisco County. Forms for other counties are availabile here — fill one out, print, and take it to your county elections office. San Francisco and … Continue reading Register to vote in Calif. by today – Oct 20 – check registration online – updated