Newkirk Hattaway's Page

James R. Jacobs, International Documents Librarian at Stanford University and one of the co-founders of Free Government Information (FGI), sent a message to the GOVDOC-L listserv earlier this week, asking for volunteers to serve as guest bloggers for FGI. I volunteered and should be receiving more instructions about this "post" soon. FGI is a site designed to "raise public awareness of the importance of government information and create a community with… Continue

I'm currently scanning, and will continue to scan, the various library job websites for opportunities in the Salt Lake City area. I'll be moving there in early November, after I get married. My preference would be to work in an academic setting, but I'm open to other types of libraries, too.

I'm definitely looking forward to the ACRL Conference in Baltimore next week. Library 2.0 topics will be the focus, of course, which will provide me with plenty of inspiration for future projects. I especially hope to get ideas about how to put the spotlight on government documents at my library. I'll be doing a poster session entitled "Documents Directly to the People: Using Podcasts to Promote Government Documents Collections" from 9:30-10:30 on Saturday, 3/21. This will be a fabulous way t

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