The Wonderful World of Government Documents
There are now blogs devoted to GovDocs. Huzzah!
Library Autonomous Zone covers many issues within and outside of librarianship, but there's a lot about government documents and depository systems for federal and CA state documents.
Cool Gov is a very breezy blog that is devoted to finding the "coolest [Government-published] stuff there is and post it here. After all, you paid for it� dammit, you better get some use out of it."
Also, while opening/processing GovDoc mail, I found these delightful items:
* A box from the GPO filled with the latest Cataloging Service Bulletins was stuffed with Zip-Loc (oops, make that storage) baggies emblazoned with "Library of Congress - Copyright Office" and a lightning bolt in a circle right in the middle, surrounded by the words, "Protected by Copyright".
How cool is that? Heck yeah, I kept them! It's detrius, after all ...
* A book on fundamental rights within the EU written in French. That's not unusual, but the physical dimensions of the book are: 1" x 1 1/4" x 3/8"
Like a good little parapro, I walked it over to the selector/bibliographer in charge of international Gov Docs for his evaluation. He was fascinated. No telling if it'll actually end up in Special Collections or in some type of display. I should see if I can order more ... perhaps for use as stocking stuffers.
Lastly, I've noticed my first children's book from the UN: Tessa and the Fishy Mystery. It's about marine pollution and over-fishing and other oceanic environmental issues. Colourful graphics. Very cute. Of course, the UN ripped off the idea from the EU, which issued Let me tell you a secret
about the environment, a children's book on environmentalism (focused on a child and a fox in a landfill) in 2002/2003.
Nothing, however, beats the EU comic book ...