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Searcher
June 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
The U.S. Census bureau in the 21st Century In order to learn more about access and distribution of the Census, I sent surveys to two librarians associated with the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the ALA. While these librarians could not speak for GODORT, they presented some interesting perspectives...   |
Searcher
June 2002
David Mattison |
Counting heads Around the World The Genealogy of International Census databases, part 1... |
Information Today
December 17, 2012
Barbie E. Keiser |
Statistical Abstract of the United States Gets a New Publisher ProQuest will save the day, rescuing this valued reference tool for the nation. |
Information Today
March 15, 2012
Barbara Quint |
Gale Adds Massive Directory Data to DemographicsNow Gale sees the new service as replacing enough other sources at an attractive enough price to draw libraries in these tough budget times. It also sees the data as serving the needs of a wide variety of patrons. |
Searcher
January 2003
David Mattison |
Counting Heads Around the World The Genealogy of international Census Databases, Part II: Canada |
Information Today
March 28, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
U.S. Census Bureau to Eliminate Strategic Publications Including Statistical Abstracts All budget decisions are difficult choices, but we wonder whether anyone in the U.S. government understands why Statistical Abstracts and Current Industrial Reports are precisely the resources that should not be eliminated? |
Information Today
March 1, 2012 |
New Mapping Capabilities Enhance BusinessDecision CIVICTechnologies, a provider of geographic information system data and market segmentation solutions to libraries, announced a major mapping enhancement that allows public and academic library users to generate detailed and highly visual maps. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2005
Matthew Miller |
Unlocking the Census With GIS This book by Alan Peters and Heather MacDonald will help professionals and students make better use of census data by taking advantage of geographic information system (GIS) technology. |
PC World
April 2004
Laurianne McLaughlin |
Beyond Google The Web is so full of useful info that no search engine can find it all. But a multitude of specialty sites deliver shopping advice, reference databases, leisure-time ideas, and more--fast. |
Information Today
August 2, 2012 |
Census Bureau API Lets Developers Create Custom Apps The U.S. Census Bureau launched a new online service that makes key demographic, socioeconomic, and housing statistics more accessible than ever before. |
CIO
November 1, 2000
Ben Worthen |
The Greatest Project on Earth The Census Bureau used novel IT methods to defy the doomsayers and come in on time... |
Searcher
April 2002
Marylaine Block |
Mapping the Information Landscape Why is it worth identifying our mental maps and thinking about them? To remind ourselves when we get bogged down in a question, that we can reorient ourselves to a different map and a different strategy for finding answers... |
D-Lib
January 2006
Linden & Green |
Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications Statistical digitization projects must make investments in adequate metadata and object-oriented design at the point of digitization - otherwise, the data are in danger of losing their context |
Information Today
March 29, 2012
Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest `Rescues' the Statistical Abstract of the United States The addition of StatAbs to ProQuest's Statistical Insight and DataSets will benefit all those with access to the databases. |
Information Today
June 14, 2012
Barbie E. Keiser |
Federal Statistical Programs in Jeopardy The Census Bureau is not the only data source frequently tapped by information professionals (among others) in jeopardy. Nearly every federal agency has some statistical program that will be affected by budget cuts. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2012
Marcy Phelps |
Visualization Tools for Turning Information Into Insights Rather than delivering a compilation of articles or pages of text, research professionals add value by turning the information into insights and helping clients understand what it means to them. |
PC Magazine
February 15, 2006
Davis D. Janowski |
Mapping Goes Local New local search services combine the search functionality of yellow-page sites, the cartographic abilities of the best mapping services, and a healthy dose of business and restaurant reviews provided by the locals themselves. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jan/Feb 2008
Jay R. Lucas |
New Year, New Tools STDBonline's Quick Maps and Quick Demographics are two new programs incorporated into www.stdbonline.com to help commercial real estate professionals streamline their transactions. |
Information Today
October 2, 2006
Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Googling Your Tax Dollars? A new law represents a merger of the principles of open, accountable, and transparent government and e-government technologies to create an easy and accessible means for the American public to learn how the government spends its tax dollars. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2000
Gregory Crane |
Designing Documents to Enhance the Performance of Digital Libraries: Time, Space, People and a Digital Library on London In a mature digital library (DL), documents should coexist with a Geographic Information System (GIS). |
BusinessWeek
September 29, 2003
James Mehring |
Federal Figures at Your Fingertips Profit data, career information, and more are just a mouse click away |
Searcher
June 2002
Irene E. McDermott |
Where was I? Maps on the Web There is a tremendous amount of spatial data on the World Wide Web: multitudes of maps; armfuls of atlases; cartloads of cartography. Enough to keep a map nerd like myself clicking and dreaming for years. Maps on the Web are designed for many uses, and many of them are free... |
Information Today
September 20, 2012
Peggy Garvin |
APDU 2012 Conference Explores the Future of Federal Survey Data While the tech community has been buzzing about public data, open data, and Big Data for the past several years, the Association of Public Data Users has had a relatively low profile in discussions happening outside of its own community of statisticians and demographers. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2002
Kenning Arlitsch |
Digitizing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for a Full Color, Publicly Accessible Collection Aside from the intended audience of insurance companies, the maps have been of value to genealogists, demographers, environmentalists, urban planners, historians, and laypersons, and it is no surprise that attempts have been made in recent years to digitize the maps. |
Information Today
March 18, 2002
Richard W. Wiggins |
AT&T Business Services to Provide a Norwegian Tour Guide for FirstGov.gov The U.S. government has awarded a contract to AT&T Business Services to provide a new search engine service for locating government documents and services. AT&T Business Services will employ search technology created by FAST... |
IDB America
August 2001
Charo Quesada |
A tool for development The manager of the IDB's Sustainable Development Department explains the crucial link between census and public policy... |
Information Today
May 21, 2012
Barbie E. Keiser |
Contracting Government By Cutting Census Bureau Programs In addition to cutting $20 million from this year's Economic Census, H.R. 5326 contained an amendment proposed by Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) that would eliminate funding -- for the American Community Survey. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2001
Matthew E. Coenen |
2000 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia The Grolier 2000 Multimedia Encyclopedia (GME) contains over 37,000 articles, and more if you take advantage of the online feature... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2001
Matthew Miller |
Focus on Social Studies Social studies is a broad topic, encompassing several subjects, including history, government, economics, civics, sociology, geography and anthropology. It can also be one of the most visual learning experiences for students with the help of today's tools and software... |
Information Today
March 12, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
Data-Planet Provides Value-Added Aggregation of Statistical Data Conquest Systems, Inc. has introduced Data-Planet, a new Web-based service that aggregates current and historical public statistical data from many U.S. federal agencies as well as data from nongovernment organizations. |
PC World
August 20, 2007
Steve Bass |
The Web's Best Mapping Sites At the top map services, driving directions are just the beginning. |
Salon.com
March 16, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
Counting the mix With a surprising number of African-Americans identifying themselves as multiracial, the Census Bureau has some colorful math to do. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012
Fleet et al. |
Georeferencer: Crowdsourced Georeferencing for Map Library Collections The Georeferencer application is a collaborative online project allowing crowdsourced georeferencing of map images. It builds upon a number of related technologies that use existing zoomable images from library web servers. |
InternetNews
September 26, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Private Search on Public Portal Vivisimo and MSN partner to provide search for federal information. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Enhances Maps, Integrates Local Search In a major overhaul, Yahoo has significantly upgraded its Maps offering with cleaner maps and integrated local search results. |
IDB America
August 2001
Charo Quesada |
A high-stakes numbers game The IDB helps to finance a census that will profoundly alter the way Bolivia allocates public resources... |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Understanding Economic Data: New-Home Construction Investors, by looking at data on new-home construction, you can learn how homebuilders are reacting to changing conditions in the real estate market and draw valuable conclusions that can assist you in making your own decisions about housing. |
Information Today
May 20, 2010 |
ProQuest's New Sanborn Maps Geo Edition ProQuest is using a proprietary geo-referencing technology to enhance discovery in its Sanborn Map collection, one of libraries' most consulted sources of historical maps. |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2006
Mike Norman |
Dismal Science From the Armchair Access to free data on the Internet lets anyone give economic forecasting a try. If ever there was a time to be an amateur economist, it is now, so go ahead and awaken the economist within you. |
Entrepreneur
October 2004
Steve Cooper |
Resources 10/04 Here's a few Web sites, organizations and more to help you grow your business: Commercial real estate listings nationwide... Easy-to-search U.S. Census data... Syndicated content sources... Directory of associations... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
July 8, 2008
Carrie Hill |
Local Search for Little Biz Luckily for small business owners, there are steps they can take to influence many of the factors that positively affect local search rankings. |
InternetNews
April 5, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Google My Maps is Your Maps Google's My Maps allows users to mark locations on a map from a library of icons, draw lines and shapes to highlight paths and areas, and add text, photos, or YouTube/Google videos. |
Information Today
December 26, 2007 |
New Sajara Offers Web-Based Geographic Digital Asset Management Avencia has announced a new edition of its web-based geographic digital asset management for georeferencing, managing, searching, and displaying an organization's digital assets from anywhere in the world. |
Search Engine Watch
April 5, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Hacking Google Maps If you like using Google Maps and want to a relatively easy way to get more out of the service, Google Maps Hacks makes an excellent addition to your hardcopy searching library. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Know Your Numbers: Construction Spending By using the Census Bureau's construction spending report, you can identify trends and countertrends in construction and use your conclusions to improve your understanding of the overall economy and to inform your personal investment decisions. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Joel Bruckenstein |
Mind Mapping The concept of mind mapping is a technique that seems particularly well suited to the financial advisory practice. Read on for more information. |
Search Engine Watch
January 31, 2006
Gary Price |
Search Overhaul for U.S. FirstGov Government Portal The feel, look, and organization of the actual FirstGov portal remains the same. What's new is it's search functionality. And the improvements are noticeable within the first couple of searches. |
Information Today
October 3, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Vivisimo and MSN Search to Power FirstGov.gov... Alacra Adds Newstex Feeds... ISYS Announces ISYS: web 7... etc. |
Wired
June 26, 2007
Evan Ratliff |
Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World Volunteer cartographers are helping Google detail their satellite images around the world. |
Information Today
May 10, 2012 |
ProQuest Joins 1940 U.S. Census Community Project ProQuest's participation in the project provides major financial support to the indexing effort, which enables all its partners to ingest content more affordably, providing timely delivery to their users. |
