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Searcher
January 2003
David Mattison |
Counting Heads Around the World The Genealogy of international Census Databases, Part II: Canada   |
Searcher
February 2002
Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Digital Government: Digital Tools for the Electronic Dissemination of Government Information Both FirstGov.gov and American FactFinder are laudable and impressive efforts to bring citizens together with their government using the Web and are positive examples of our taxpayers' dollars at work... |
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... |
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. |
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
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013
Paul Vierkant |
2012 Census of Open Access Repositories in Germany: Turning Perceived Knowledge Into Sound Understanding Germany's open access repository landscape is one of the largest in the world. The key findings of this survey shall help stakeholders by identifying trends in the development of open access repositories in Germany. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
September 5, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest New ProQuest Obituaries Provides Access Back to 1851... The New York Times Acquires Baseline Service... Dialog Adds New Nursing Database... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
May 3, 2012 |
Ancestry.com Inc. to Acquire Archives.com This transaction will enable Ancestry.com to add a differentiated service targeted to a complementary segment of the growing family history category. |
Fast Company
May 1, 2011
Margaret Rhodes |
Ancestry.com Leads the Race to Digitize Your Family Roots Ancestry.com's 1.4 million paid subscribers to sift through the site's mammoth online database, boosting revenue to $300 million, up 50% from five years ago and 34% last year. |
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. |
Information Today
February 8, 2010 |
EBSCO Publishing and Footnote Expand Genealogy and Historical Document Resources The resources bring an unprecedented collection of original historical documents and personal histories to users. |
Information Today
September 26, 2013
Peggy Garvin |
A Sea Change for Public Data The Association of Public Data Users convened in Washington, D.C. to update members on current challenges to the quality of federal statistical data and opportunities to innovate around those challenges. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
February 2005
Crystal Detamore-Rodman |
At Your Service The U.S. Census Bureau's new quarterly survey of service-industry activity will give businesses information to monitor industry trends, make hiring decisions and develop immediate operational strategies. |
BusinessWeek
October 28, 2010
Dexter Roberts |
A Head Count to Reveal China's Secrets One of the challenges of China's 2010 census is to determine the number of migrant workers and unregistered children. |
Information Today
August 27, 2012 |
Census Bureau Mobile App Now Available for iPhone and iPad The America's Economy mobile app provides updated statistics on the U.S. economy, including monthly economic indicators and economic trends. |
CRM
July 2011
Brittany Farb |
Census Bureau Takes to the Cloud Acumen's customized CRM application manages partner organizations and provides extensive reports. |
The Motley Fool
June 3, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Ignore Tomorrow's Jobs Report How the Census figures skew reality. |
Information Today
March 10, 2015 |
ProQuest's Genealogical Resource Gets Upgrade ProQuest released a new version of its HeritageQuest Online collection of genealogical and historical information. |
Entrepreneur
August 2003
Karen E. Spaeder |
Urban Legend Do 90 percent of start-ups really fail to make it past their first year? Not that starting a business is easy. But it's not quite the suicide mission it's been made out to be. |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005
Bremner & Roberts |
China: Fuzzy Numbers No More? Statistics could improve if Beijing's new economic census is a success. |
CFO
April 1, 2010 |
Up for the Count Test your knowledge of the massive decennial data-gathering exercise known as the U.S. Census. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2002
David Drickhamer |
Aim High Not to confuse effort with results, but at the most basic level, North America's best manufacturers are simply doing more. |
