Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

Not to bring down the excitement of a new congress and the new executive but the fine folks at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute just wanted to remind us of the potential problems resulting from a nominal 10 KT nuclear BLAST! You can read the entire report, Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear [...]

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Whitehouse.gov is trying, and I think we should probably give ‘em a little breathing space, but the attempt at .gov blogging is starting off a little rocky according to FCW.

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The Bush years web presence is now archived.  If you missed the “100 Things Americans May Not Know About the Bush Administration Record” you can go back in time and view it.
And on that topic, if you note the docs blog archive is missing links, they can be found at the Bush web archive also.

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That didn’t take long… a great 18 minute speech and a new web presence.  Not too much yet, but this link will get you a sense of the new administration. And if you don’t think new means NEW, see what a search of whitehouse.gov for the word “bush” reveals…

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OK, it is official (at least the portrait).  But we can’t celebrate until Tuesday.

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From a librarian’s perspective it is interesting to note that the book, Dead Certain by Robert Draper has for one of its subject headings “Pride and vanity — Political aspects — United States”

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The final press conference by the outgoing Commander-in-Chief took place today.  Introductory remarks included the statement that the press at times has “misunderestimated me.”  Oy vey.  But wait there is more…

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It seems to this blogger that we are in for an era of sanitized www.whitehouse.gov Anyone trolling this blog will note that any mis-step by the bureaucracy is quickly seized upon, but from the sterile look of change.gov we may be into a new breed of web presence in Washington — this is nicely described [...]

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Interesting post from our newest blog addition, ProPublica, on the flurry of regulations restricting FOIA requests at various agencies.

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