Forest Gump once said "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." That is a good description of the current Resource of the Week, the Lost Docs Blog at http://lostdocs.freegovinfo.info.
The Lost Docs Blog was created by Free Government Information to be a public clearinghouse of federal documents reported to the Government Printing Office (GPO) as so-called fugitive documents. Fugitive documents are reports and other federal government documents that are eligible to be described in the Catalog of Government Publications but are missed by GPO.
By providing a public feed of reported fugitive documents, Free Government Information hopes to provide more accountability for GPO's cataloging section and to draw community attention to documents that depository libraries might wish to acquire before GPO can determine whether a reported fugitive document belongs in the Federal Depository Library Program.
The blog is powered by e-mail receipts received from librarians and others who have submitted fugitive documents reports to GPO. Volunteers at Free Government Information post these receipts so that they appear once or twice a day, depending on volume of reports. This is where the "box of chocolates" metaphor comes in. The documents that appear on the blog can be from any federal agency. This makes the blog a sort of miscellaneous current awareness tool of what falls through the official cracks -- and an excellent resource for highlighting the breadth of government information.
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Read more about the Lost Docs Blog via Free Government Information.
-- Bonus Resource of the Week: Shirl's Basic Government Docs Cheat Sheet
The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Those not available online are available from a federal depository library.
To keep up with newly released titles, click the New Titles link at the top (duh). Click the "Preferences" link above the search box for a variety of options. Among other things, you can choose to search only those publications available in full text on the Internet (Internet Publications). See the light blue "Catalogs to Search" section just below the title near the top of the page.
Objective, nonpartisan, and timely analyses to aid in economic and budgetary decisions on the wide array of programs covered by the federal budget and
The information and estimates required for the Congressional budget process.
You'll also find PowerPoints, testimonies, etc. Note the "Frequently Requested" items at the lower right for a selection of "hot" documents. The keyword search tool at the upper right corner works pretty well. Douglas W. Elmendorf, CBO director, maintains a weblog, which is a good way to keep up with what's new on this site.
American taxpayers spend over $100 million a year to fund the Congressional Research Service, a "think tank" that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events. Yet, these reports are not made available to the public in a way that they can be easily obtained. A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports.
There are other collections of CRS reports on the Internet, but the vast majority of them end up absorbed here eventually. Alas, the search engine on this site is marginal at best. You'll have better luck using Google's advanced search form; after typing your search in the boxes at the top, go down to the box at the bottom -- Search within a site or domain: -- and type opencrs.com.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars.
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GAO's best known products include reports, testimonies, correspondence, and legal decisions and opinions, which are available to the press and the public. We also produce special publications to assist Congress and executive branch agencies by recommending corrections to problems in government programs and operations, identifying long-term trends, and raising concerns about the nation's fiscal imbalance.
The keyword search option at the upper right works pretty well; an advanced option is readily available if you need it. To keep up with new releases on a daily basis, check the GAO Daybook. You can browse collections of reports on hot/popular topics here.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
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The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
