Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)
Exchange Share Your Content
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Steps for adding and sharing content via the GODORT Education Committee's Exchange.
GODORT Exchange Continuing Education Resources
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A list of continuing education resources for Government Information librarians, including blogs and webinars.
GODORT Exchange
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The goal of this GODORT Education Committee project is to provide access to government information librarian created content in one place to assist with the successful management of government information.
Professional Development
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Professional Associations United States Government Documents Round table (GODORT) - IDTF's parent organization within the ¾«¶«´«Ã½. American Association of Law Libraries The Foreign Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section may be of particular interest to the IDTF. Listservs and Electronic Discussion Groups International Intl-Doc - listserv for international documents librarians. To subscribe to INTL-DOC, send the following message: SUBSCRIBE INTL-DOC First Last to listserv@listserv.it.northwestern.edu where First = your first name and Last = your last...
GODORT "Buddy" Program
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Information about the GODORT Membership Committee's "Buddy" program.
IGO Search
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IGO/NGO custom search engines Welcome to the IGO/NGO custom search engine project. The project was started by David Oldenkamp, International Documents Librarian at Indiana University (who's no longer at IU). The IGO search is done with GoogleCSE. The list of urls for the search came from the Northwestern University IGO site. For questions, comments, suggestions or to submit an IGO to add to the search, James Jacobs, Government Information Librarian at Stanford University. What it is: Using Google Co-op, fed 415 base URLs of IGOs into the search engine. Here's the growing spreadsheet of IGO...
State & Regional Documents Groups
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A directory of state, regional, and local documents groups by state.
New Members
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GODORT Membership Committee page targeted to new members of GODORT
Courtney Young named recipient of the Larry Romans Mentorship Award
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CHICAGO — The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender and Government Documents Round Tables (GLBTRT and GODORT) are proud to announce Courtney Young as the 2018 recipient of the Larry Romans Mentorship Award. The Award's...
Government Information for Children (GIC) Committee
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Current Members | Bylaws | Policies and Procedures Manual (PPM) | Meeting Minutes The purpose of the Government Information for Children Committee is to: Promote government information in order to engage K-12 students in learning about history, culture, science, and government through games and other interactive activities. Assist teachers, school librarians, public librarians, academic librarians, parents, and the general public with locating teaching aids, lesson plans, and exciting tools to enhance students' learning. Provide all populations with a collection of free government resources –...
Essentials for the government information librarian
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CHICAGO — Government documents, both physical and electronic, constitute a rich and varied resource that calls for special attention. And because government information is useful and pervasive in nearly every kind of library, more and more librarians of...
The ultimate guide to mining, finding, evaluating, and using government resources
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CHICAGO — Government data and resources are uniquely useful to researchers and other library users. But without a roadmap, sifting through the sheer quantity of information to find the right answers is foolhardy. Already well established as an essential...
VMM15: Your historic opportunity to vote on a VMM resolution
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CHICAGO — Be one of more than 500 members who will have the first-time ever opportunity to vote on a resolution submitted via the Virtual Membership Meeting.
Webinars
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Writing & Publishing for Information Professionals, a panel discussion January 14th, 2021 Is the idea of publishing terrifying or confusing? Do you need to publish but don’t know where to start? Join us for a writer’s panel on publishing. Learn about the various options for publication, how GODORT’s DttP and MAGIRT’s Base Line works, and get advice on the writing process. Speakers include published author Latanya Jenkins, award winning author Chris Brown, DttP editor Laura Sare and author Dr. Lorri Mon, and recent book editor Tom Diamond. Recording Civic Duty: Libraries and the Disenfranchised...
Government Information for Children Committee
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Charge The purpose of the Government Information Committee is: To promote government information in order to engage K-12 students in learning about history, culture, science, and government through games and other interactive activities. To assist teacher / school librarians, public librarians, academic librarians, parents, and the general public with locating teaching aids, lesson plans, and exciting tools to enhance students' learning. To provide all populations with a collection of free government resources – designed for children - to advance their personal and professional needs Committee...
Which describes your situation?
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Before you begin the process of joining or renewing, take a moment to read the following information. It will make the process quick and easy. Which best describes your situation? New Member? If you are sure you are a new member joining ¾«¶«´«Ã½for the very first time, click the Join Online button located in the right hand column of this page. Enter your email and you will be taken to our secure online membership form to make your selections. Renewing/Rejoining? If you are an ¾«¶«´«Ã½member now, or have been an ¾«¶«´«Ã½member in the past, click the Renew Online button located in the right hand column of...
