http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40194_20090706.pdf

Describes the Google Book Search Library Project, the litigation conducted to date over the project, the legal issues raised, and the proposed settlement agreement. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by OpenCRS.org.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-09-69A1.pdf

Report to Congress mandated by the Child Safe Viewing Act which assesses the current state of parental control devices and other blocking technologies designed to protect children from inappropriate content on television, the Internet, and other electronic products. From the Federal Communications Commission.

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009322

Presents selected findings about public and Indian school libraries from the 2007-2008 Schools and Staffing Survey. From the National Center for Education Statistics.

http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Interim_Report.pdf

Interim report from a special panel considering who is responsible for long-term access to and preservation of digital networked information. Considers the economics of digital information preservation, preliminary lessons learned, and the concept of economic sustainability as applied to digital information. Not a government document but includes members from federal agencies. From the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/secrecy/RS20825.pdf

Reviews the history of the presidential library system, the reasons for its development in concerns for document preservation, and legislation which has shaped the system. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists.

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008337

Summarizes services, staff, collections and expenditures of academic libraries in 2 and 4 year postsecondary institutions. From the National Center for Education Statistics.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earlyamericas/

Features more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts from the Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Subject focus is indigenous American cultures and the drama of the encounter between native Americans and European explorers/settlers. From the Library of Congress

http://harvester.census.gov/imls/pubs/Publications/StLA2006.pdf

Provides library statistics on state library agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, including governance, service transactions, hours, collections, services, staff, revenues and expenditures. From the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008301

Reports that visits to public libraries in the U.S. totaled 1.4 billion or 4.7 library visits per capita in 2005. Offers national and state level data on public libraries, including population served, collections and services, full-time staff, revenues and expenditures. From the National Center for Education Statistics.

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07-154.html

Press release announcing the appointment of Simic to succeed Donald Hall as Poet Laureate with details of Simic's career and a list of all past poet-laureates. From the Library of Congress.

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007327

Presents patterns of library use by household demographic, social, economic, and geographic characteristics. From the National Center for Education Statistics