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Revision as of 16:57, 18 November 2017

Current Committee Members

Policies and Procedures

Purpose

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

Agendas

Agenda--ALA2017.docx

GODORT_GIC Agenda ALA Annual 2016_20160617

GODORT_GIC_Agenda_ALA_Annual_2015_

Topics

Minutes from ALA Annual 2016 are available for viewing. GIC_Minutes_Annual_2016_DTTP_20160628.docx

Many exciting projects: --GIC Clearinghouse edits and additions / awareness campaign --National History Day - programming and reference assistance --Constitution Day - poster contest and programming


Minutes from ALA Midwinter 2016 are available for viewing. GIC_GODORT_Government_Information_for_Children__Agenda_Report_ALA_MidWinter_20160116.pdf

Minutes from 26 June GIC Meeting at ALA Annual + Primary tabs View(active tab)Edit by Thomas Adamich on Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 02:06 pm Tags: General News and Discussion | 2015 | government 2.0; government information for children; Spanish language and government information; Constitution Day Hi, Everyone:


Thanks for your continued efforts. Attached are the minutes from our meeting at Annual.


In addition, once again, here's a message from Susanne Caro regarding a call for participation in the FDLP GIC Webinar. Connie and I encourage you to consider contributing something to one of these efforts:


Hello, We are looking for individuals who are interested in sharing their knowledge of age-appropriate Government Documents with other librarians. FDLP is interested in adding webinars on this subject to the FDLP academy. You can focus on a subject, grade or even how to market these materials to teachers and students. Depending on the level of interest we can have a series of presentations. I you are interested please contact Susanne.caro@umontana.edu

Thanks again! Susanne (P.S. I love the naturalization test!)


Feel free to contact Connie or me with questions, ideas, etc.


Thanks again.


Tom

GIC_ALA_Annual_2015minutes_20150629.docx - See more at: http://connect.ala.org/node/242226#sthash.Y3Wakgs7.dpuf

GIC Agenda UPDATED 6/6/2015 - ALA Annual 2015 Primary tabs View(active tab)Edit by Thomas Adamich on Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 06:09 am Tags: General News and Discussion | 2015 | government 2.0; government information for children; Spanish language and government information; Constitution Day Hi, Everyone:


...Hope you had a great holiday! Attached is what I have for the agenda at this point. Feel free to contact Connie or me with additions / clarifications.

UPDATE: FDLP GIC / EMERGING LEADERS Webinars - Please contact Susanne Caro - susanne.caro@mso.umt.edu for details / participation.

Connie and I are excited about continuing the great work we started and embarking with you on some new initiatives as well (Emerging Leaders - Federal Citizens Information Center).

Again, let us know if you have questions.

Talk to you soon; take care.

Connie & Tom

Connie H. Williams Teacher Librarian National Board Certified

chwms@mac.com Tom Adamich

Content Librarian / ICC Internship Program Manager | Mitinet Library Services Tel: 800-824-6272 x5209 / 330-364-4410 - Direct Line | Fax: 608-845-9261 E-mail: toma@mitinet.com | www.mitinet.com 1039 North Edge Trail | Verona, WI 53593 - See more at: http://connect.ala.org/node/239331#sthash.duNv2v51.dpuf Discussion The content is public. GIC Meeting - Agenda and Login Information Primary tabs View(active tab)Edit by Thomas Adamich on Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 07:04 am Tags: General News and Discussion | 2015 | government 2.0; government information for children; Spanish language and government information; Constitution Day 53559 Government Information for Children Committee Meeting (GODORT) Fri Jan 30 08:30 am 10:00 am BLACK - Taste

Time indicated is CST.

BLACK – Renaissance Blackstone

Hotel map http://alamw15.ala.org/files/alamw15/ALA_2015%20Hotel%20Map.pdf


For those planning to participate virtually, we'll use the following bridge line: 888-369-1089 2345# 1234#

Attached is what I have agenda-wise so far. Please send me additions / corrections.

Also, I hope we can talk about the following with the GPO:

Ben's Guide - updates and GIC promotion / integration proposal details Constitution Day Poster Contest 2015 - GPO contributions and related information GIC LibGuide - GPO contributions and related information GPO Affiliate Libraries - GIC / GODORT partnership details and related information

Talk to you soon; take care.

Tom


Tom Adamich Content Librarian / ICC Internship Program Manager | Mitinet Library Services Tel: 800-824-6272 x5209 / 330-364-4410 - Direct Line | Fax: 608-845-9261 E-mail: toma@mitinet.com | www.mitinet.com

421 S. Nine Mound Road | Verona, WI 53593

- See more at: http://connect.ala.org/node/232405#sthash.HX2PBM5n.dpuf GIC ALA Annual 2014 Minutes

Here are the minutes from our successful meeting at Annual in Las Vegas. Feel free to contact Connie or me with questions, ideas, etc.

Take care.

Tom

Annual 2014 GIC meeting minutes File:GIC ALA 2014minutes 628.pdf

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Gov Docs Use in the Classroom: IMLS Grant Opportunity - Suzanne Caro by Thomas Adamich on Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 05:01 am Hi. ...Looking forward to ALA Annual 2014 planning, etc. This came to me from Suzanne Caro, and I wanted to know how you think the GIC could be involved / collaborate? I'd be happy to set up a conference call using our Mitinet bridgeline if everyone is interested.

If we could target a date / time prior to the Easter holiday, that would be great. Please advise.

ALA Annual 2014 Planning

by Thomas Adamich on Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:47 pm

Hi, Everyone:


...Hope all is well. ...Just wanted to get us thinking for Annual 2014. Here is the GODORT schedule. Please feel free to attend anything you see if you'll be there in person (in addition to our meeting). I'd also like to get an idea of how many virtual participants we'll have and the available accommodations for that.

GIC ALA Mid-Winter Agenda and Annual 2013 Minutes

by Thomas Adamich on Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 06:01 am

Hi, Everyone:

...Looking forward to talking with you today at 10:00 AM EST.

Here is the call-in information again for your reference:

Fall 2013 Project Goals and Tasks for GIC by Thomas Adamich on Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 07:36 am REQUEST: Updates for 2014 ALA Mid-Winter Virtual Meeting - GIC

Hi.


...Hope everyone is well and enjoying Fall in your part of the world.


I know the holidays are fast approaching, and I just wanted to get a sense of where we're at prior to our virtual meeting for ALA Mid-Winter. Please respond either here or on ALAConnect relative to the status of your part of our plan.

jobs

by Connie Williams on Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 08:50 pm

Hello GIC members

Are there any of you affected by the possible shut down? Please know my thoughts are with you.

Just checking in... if any of you have links for me to post, please send them on - I'm slowly [far too slowly!] building the website.

Thanks

Connie

http://govdocs4kids.weebly.com/

website

by Connie Williams on Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 01:31 am

Here's a link to the first draft of the GIC website for kids.... I've started taking links from the wiki that are compelling for kids and adding them to the site... it's in transition for sure!

http://govdocs4kids.weebly.com/


please send me links to your favorite places that kids might enjoy OR need for school projects.

Some of the links on the wiki are broken so they'll need updating also.

Thanks

Connie

need images by Connie Williams on Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:31 pm

Hello committee members!

I am putting together the website.... I need some compelling gov doc images to put into a short slide show... will you share some with me? If you could send them to me with citation/URLs I'd appreciate it so I can post them ASAP.

Thank you so much!

Connie

moving forward Connie Williams on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 2:49pm

Hello all!

I'm so pleased to have met all of you at our meeting last Saturday. We have a fantastic beginning and a set of goals.

As I sat around the table at the steering committee meeting [and I apologize, but I had to leave early to catch my plane] I was so in awe of all the folks who were there. I got to thinking that one thing that we might do is to survey GODORT members first to see who is in charge of what kinds of digital collections we could bring to a kids place. We can survey to find out things like: name of institution, collection[s] name[s], availability of use by kids/teachers, any lessons that have been made by the institution, etc. I'm specifically thinking of the University and private institutions vs the big names we already know and love [NARA, LOC, Smithsonian]. I've been putting a wiki together for teachers to try to put, in one place, links to digital collections that might be useful for the K-12 world, and could add these to this wiki - with the idea that it can morph into a wiki of lesson plans with links to our lib guide [that is being built at the University of Florida, Orlando]. If we could begin with the links just from GODORT members first, we'd already have an impressive list. Then we could organize them in a way that is easily accessible to teachers in K-12 along with our lesson plan ideas. I believe that the lib guide for this is an incredibly important repository which could be our collection point for all the resources, but I do think we need a site that's directed to teachers - with pages for kids so they can research it too.

Just another thought: Have you seen http://www.oercommons.org? I've been working with these folks - this could be a possible location to put thing into and work with them. Please take a look and let me know. We could even set up a working relationship with them. What is good working with someone like them is that they're indexing things and targeting the k-12 group. Let me know your thoughts, and if you think this is a way to proceed.

Either way, I believe that a branded GODORT teachers/kids docs site would be awesome and welcomed by the k-12 world.

What I've found in the primary source world is that there are SO many places and so many documents...but it's so hard to find them. If we were to develop that place where the k-12 world could go to get these resources, we'd be providing an incredible service to both teachers and kids.

It could also be the "go to" place for the constitution poster contest, and other initiatives for working with docs. Reciprocal links to other sites would be important, but folks would only have to remember ONE URL...

If you think this is worthwhile, how might we proceed? I'm happy to move forward on any of this.

Also - I guess we need a wiki for ourselves to put down these ideas and suggestions - e.g. links to send to add to the lib guide....what do you think?

thanks

Connie

http://www.primarydocs.pbworks.com

Comment + August Tasks + Constitution Day Poster Contest Thomas Adamich on Thu, 08/01/2013 - 6:15am

Hi, Connie:


This is excellent! We'll put you in charge of distirbuting the workload and establishing the timeframes for the teacher's wiki. Please reach out to Rich to see what Spanish language resources he can contribute and regarding the status on that project. Also, if everyone could update us on the status of their work as we discussed at ALA in Chicago.

Let's all take a look at Connie's site as identified:

http://www.primarydocs.pbworks.com

Additionally, we already have 3 wikis for the group:

   Gov Doc Kids Group wiki at http://govdocs4children.pbworks.com/
   ALA GODORT wiki at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Gov_Doc_Kids
   FDLP Community site at http://community.fdlp.gov/groups/viewgroup/14-Gov+Doc+Kids+Group.html

I would like each of you to take a look at one of these (you may work together if you'd like). Give your thoughts on how the resources may be updated and utilized. Please report back to the group (either in this space or via e-mail) by 1 September 2013.

Also, now is the time to start promoting the Constitution Day Poster Contest. If you can share the following with just one listserv, that would be ecellent (multiple ones if possible):

Subject:Constitution Day Poster Contest + YouTube Video - Defense Commissary Agency Promotes Constitution Day with American Library Association Group



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6ktjFSivM ; http://www.jocolibrary.org/templates/JCL_NewsListItem.aspx?id=16100 http://govdocs4children.pbworks.com/w/page/8811698/Celebrate%20Constitution%20Day%20with%20us! Commissaries help promote Constitution Day Contest

By DeCA Corporate Communication

FORT LEE, Va. – For the third straight year, the Defense Commissary Agency has joined several other organizations promoting the annual Constitution Day Poster Contest, which awards prizes to youths in grades K-12.

Posters providing contest details will be displayed in commissaries worldwide to highlight Constitution Day, Sept. 17, which serves to raise awareness among children about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, voting rights and the need to preserve liberties.

“As a DoD agency we’re proud to be part of an effort to help our young people learn more about our Constitution,” said DeCA Director and CEO Joseph H. Jeu. “This is a good time for everyone, regardless of age, to take some time to learn more about the document that forms the foundation of our country.”

Children can participate in the contest by designing a poster showing what the Constitution means to them. Winning posters will be used to publicize and celebrate Constitution Day. Entry deadline is Oct. 1, and information on contest requirements and awards can be found here. Competition categories are grouped by grades. One winner in each category will be awarded a $50 savings bond, and the grand prize winner will also receive a bicentennial coin set.

The contest is sponsored by Constitutionfacts.com, which publishes “The U.S. Constitution and Fascinating Facts About It.” Since 2008, Constitutionfacts.com has teamed with the Gov Doc Kids Group, a national organization that promotes better understanding and use of federal information and publications for students.

Constitution Day is observed nationally Sept. 17, the anniversary of the day that the members of the Constitutional Convention met for the last time and signed the Constitution in 1787. In 2004, the government established it as a federal observance. Please contact me with any questions. Talk to you soon; take care.

Tom


Tom Adamich

Content/Systems Librarian and Metadata Program Manager | Mitinet Library Services Tel: 800-824-6272 x5209 / 330-364-4410 - Direct Line | Fax: 608-845-9261 E-mail: toma@mitinet.com | www.mitinet.com

421 S. Nine Mound Road | Verona, WI 53593


Tom Adamich, MLS President

Visiting Librarian Service P.O. Box 932 New Philadelphia, OH 44663 330-364-4410 vls@tusco.net
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