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Gov Doc Guide of the Week

From the Free Government Information blog comes news of this New Feature: Guide of the Week

Government Information librarians have acquired a lot of expertise. They've written a lot of guides and pathfinders to government information.

The Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) of ALA has been collecting these handouts for years so docs librarians wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel every time they needed to create a handout or give someone a starting point for research. Recently, this GODORT "Handout Exchange" has been wikified at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Exchange.

The Handout Exchange is divided into four areas:

Guides & Handouts for Depository Management
Subject-oriented Guides and Tutorials
Source- and Geography-oriented Guides and Tutorials
Product-oriented Guides and Tutorials

Because the Handout Exchange links to many resources that could help many people outside the depository community, FGI is proud to start a new "Guide of the Week" column to highlight these librarian generated resources.

The first highlight is from the subject guide page:

Afro-Americans and the Military, 1939-45 (Denise Schoene, Univ. of Michigan, 1997) Last updated 8/6/2004

This guide provides a number of resources to the history of African Americans during this period including:

Books like The Port Chicago Mutiny. Warner, NY, 1989.
Journal articles like "Report on the Negro Soldier". Infantry Journal, #59, Dec., 1946 (UD1 .I43)
Electronic resources like Desegregation of the Armed Services at http://www.trumanlibrary.org/9981.htm.

See more subjects at: http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Subject_Guides

Full post as published by LexLibris on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).