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Government Information Clearinghouse & Handout Exchange

Welcome to the Clearinghouse!

The goal of this GODORT Education Committee project is to gather into one place the many tools available to government information librarians to assist in the successful management of electronic government information, and in building advocacy skills to promote access to this information.

Connect to the -- GODORT Handout Exchange
Many thanks to Grace York, University of Michigan and Larry Romans, Vanderbilt University who built and maintain the GODORT Handout Exchange.

Clearinghouse Topics Web Pages

Tutorials for Using Government Information

Tutorials for Training Government Documents Staff

Clearinghouse Topics Web Pages

• Depository Library Web Sites on Terrorism and Homeland Security Karen Hogenboom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Federal Depository Library Management Thomas Karel, Franklin & Marshall College/Maintained by Anne Liebst, Washburn University
• Providing User Access for Electronic Government Publications Sherry DeDecker, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Providing an Instruction Session on Government Information Chuck Malone, Western Illinois University
• Electronic Toolbox Karen Hogenboom, University of Illinois
• Community Advocacy Sherry DeDecker, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Library Administration Advocacy Angela Bonnell, Illinois State University Library
• Issues for the Profession of Government Information Librarians Patricia Cruse, Sherry DeDecker, and Ann Roselle
• Citing Government Information Sources Using MLA (Modern Language Association) Style Patrick Ragains, University of Nevada

Tutorials for Using Government Information

• Census Tutorial 2000 Daniel Cornwall, Alaska State Library
• Finding State Legislation: a Web Tutorial Jody Condit Fagan, Southwestern Illinois College
• Government Documents Display Clearinghouse Mark McCullough, Mary Nere and Pam Schmutz, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato
• The "Agency Approach" to Locating Government Information on the Internet Chuck Malone, Western Illinois University

• Instruction to Academic Assistants and Government Documents Interns Masako Yukawa, Long Island University
• Government Documents Tutorial Charlene Cain, AALL, and Larry Schankman, GODORT
• Learning SuDocs Call Numbers Becky Fox, Michigan State University