Slavic Studies Librarianship

This blog is dedicated to Slavic Studies, East and Central European Studies and Central Asian Studies librarianship. This personal blog was created by Liladhar R. Pendse (Slavic & Eastern European Studies Librarian at Princeton University, Princeton). Keywords: Slavic Studies, Russian, Central and East European, Eurasian Studies, Academic Librarianship, Minorities of Russian Federation, Princeton University, My Alma mater UCLA, Russian Diaspora, Caucasus, and Central Asia.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The OPEN GOVERNMENT GUIDE

The OPEN GOVERNMENT GUIDE (previously published as Tapping Officials' Secrets) is published by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to "open government law and practice in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia." [Introd.] http://www.rcfp.org/ogg/ Covers whether and which records and meetings are open.

Allows comparison of 2 or more states. Select from the drop down menu to compare procedures or types of records such as electronic (email, text, social media postings), bank records, collective bargaining negotiations and documents, gun permits, hospital reports, personnel records, police and prison records, real estate transactions, school and university records and vital statistics, among others. Response can be one word (yes, no, open) or a quote from the state statute or a legal case.

Can also search by keyword, eg. adoption or divorce.

Source:
Linda Oppenheim
Industrial Relations Librarian
New Jersey Documents Librarian
Princeton University