Government Publications
- Wichita State University's Documents Data Miner http://govdoc.wichita.edu/ddm has made a tremendous difference on our documents management program. This truly amazing page provides a database which allows Federal depositories to track shipping lists, tailor lists of items by selected variables, and generally get a clearer picture of what is available from the GPO and what is in their own collections. (The Brooklyn College Library is the largest depository in the Borough of Brooklyn.)
- Jane Cramer is presently revising the Government Publications Web page http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/electronic_resources/govdocs.htm on the Library site. The page will be updated and its style revised to match the look and feel of the new Library pages as will Professor Cramer's law page which resides at http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/electronic_resources/law.html. This year she created a new page, Demographics and Statistics, at http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/electronic_resources/demographics.html.
- Documents does a brisk business with academic departments to which its wares are of particular use. Professor Cramer presents a variety of classes, as well as legal information workshops. She prepares accompanying bibliographies which she loads as Web pages so that classes can have continuing access to specific resources. 2004-2005 clients included Professors Gertrude Lenzer and Amy Siskind in the new Study of the Child Program; Sociology faculty engaged in intensive demographic work with their classes; journalism professor Paul Moses; and faculty in Television and Radio. Economics faculty are Documents "stalwarts."
- After years of not being able to print from our extensive collection of microcards, (collections in this format include much of the US Congressional Serial Set and Landmarks of Science, as well as a number of colonial newspapers) we find that technology has progressed to the point that flatbed scanners can now produce pdf files that are of acceptable quality. Based on a large scale experiment at Penn State (http://www.me.psu.edu/me415/spring01/library) we are acquiring some new equipment that will greatly facilitate this process.