Leyburn Library of Washington and Lee University is a selective Depository for U.S. Government information.
Listed below are some of the new items available through our Web site and/or on our shelves. If you have questions or comments about this blog, please contact Dick Grefe.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Available online.
Discussion of and recently-revised data on "two slightly different versions of the Federal poverty measure: The poverty thresholds, and The poverty guidelines."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Available online.
Annual compilation Includes data (including country analyses) on: energy consumption and production; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, and electricity, as well as carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossil fuels, petroleum prices, energy reserves, and population.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Available online.
BLS and the Census Bureau provide this annual count, in which "volunteers are defined
as persons who did unpaid work (except for expenses) through or for an
organization."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
U.S. Congressional Budget Office.
Available online.
This annual publication is one of a series of reports on the state of the budget and the economy that the CBO issues each year. "Because economic and budgetary circumstances have changed significantly in recent months, this report was preparedand released several weeks earlier than usual to aid the new Congress in its deliberations."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
U.S. Small Business Administration.
Available online.
Annual compliation supplies "data on small businesses in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia," including "number of firms, demographics of business ownership, small business income, banking, business turnover, industry composition, and employment gains and losses by size of business."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
U.S. Congress \ GPOAccess.
Available online.
Actually titled United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions. "Published by the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Government Reform alternately after each Presidential election, the Plum Book lists over 7,000 Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment, nationwide.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
With the intallation of a new Presidential Administration, the official White House Web site takes on a new look and new content. Thus, WhiteHouse.gov now looks quite different from how it did on January 19. And the difference is not just cosmetic.
Where do old White House Web sites go when they die? They live on, due to the diligence of the U.S. National Archives, enabling us to see and use snapshots of the sites in the Clinton and Bush Administrations.
There is a page in the W&L University Library Web site with more information on Presidential materials.
U.S. Council of Economic Advisors.
Available online.
This is the brand-new edition of this annual report which provides an overview of "the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices." This GPOAccess site provides access to reports from 1995 to date.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
YouTube / U.S. Congress.
Available online.
Members of Congress are developing their own YouTube video channels, with "videos direct from their Washington offices, as well as clips of floor speeches and committee hearings alongside additional behind-the-scenes footage from Capitol Hill."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Available online.
"This report presents a profile of the membership of the 111th Congress. Statistical information is included on selected characteristics of Members, including data on party affiliation, average age and length of service, occupation, religious affiliation, gender, ethnicity, foreign births, and military service."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, U.S. Department of Defense.
Available online.
These reports "provide data on reported sexual assaults involving students, as well as policies, procedures, and processes implemented in response to sexual harassment and violence at the MSA's during Academic Program Year (APY) 2007-2008."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
U.S. Census Bureau.
Available online.
Brand-new annual updates of these tables, which "provide estimates of income and poverty for states and counties, as well as estimates of poverty and population for school districts, median household income and poverty rates of various age groups."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.