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Virginia Agencies
- Virginia.Gov: Official Virginia Home Page
Sections on government, employment, residents, business, education, family, tourism and travel, and facts and history.
- Virginia Government Page
Offers links to Virginia state agency websites, a directory of agency phone numbers and addresses, state constitutional officers, and a Virginia state employee directory search.
- YouTube Virginia Government Channel
Videos of Virginia state agencies, localities, and colleges and universities.
Virginia Localities
- Virginia Cities in Detail
Offers links to detailed maps of Virginia cities. From the Virginia Department of Transportation.
- Cities in Virginia
An alphabetical arrangement of links to websites of Virginia cities, towns, places and community organizations from a commercial provider. From Wowworks.com.
- Virginia Counties
Features a state map with links to the websites of all Virginia counties. From the Virginia Association of Counties.
State/Local Organizations
- Council of State Governments
Offers information about state legislation and programs for 17 policy areas under the "State Trends and Policy" tab. Also offers links to all state home pages
- Legal Web Site Directory
Extensive directory of state sites including executive, legislative, judicial branches plus localities. From LexisNexis.
- Municode.Com
Searches municipal codes by state and locality. From Municipal Code Corporation.
- National Association of Counties
Features more than a dozen issue and interest areas with fact sheets, resolutions, articles, advocacy positions and more. Also has a data and demographics section which enables searching by population range or square mileage of countie, coastal area, and income criteria.
- National Association of State Chief Information Officers
Offers news releases, issue briefs, publications, and links to state websites.
- National Conference of State Legislatures
News articles are free to all. Issue areas and other information restricted to subscribers.
- National Governors Association
Features a directory of current governors, a governors database, policy papers, recent opinion articles by the governors, news and more.
- National League of Cities
Features issues section with news, publications, testimony, letters, and research reports related to various major current topics.
- State and Local Government on the Net
Features quick access to the websites of states, state agencies by topics, and city and county governments. Also offers links to national organizations and multi-state sites. From StateLocalGov.Net.
- United States Conference of Mayors
Offers news, reports, text of resolutions, and more from the organization for mayors of U.S. cities.
State Research Resources
- Encyclopedia Virginia
- An online resource covering the people, history, government, economy, and culture of Virginia. From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
- State Agency Databases
A collection of databases of state government agency information organized alphabetically by state. A wiki project sponsored by the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association.
- State and Territorial Governments
Offers links to official portal sites for each state and some territorial governments. From USA.Gov.
- State Digital Resources
- Offers a list of state and regional digital resources including memory projects, online encyclopedias, and historical & cultural collections alphabetically by state. From the Library of Congress.
- Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
A digital center featuring geographic information , mapping, and statistical resources focused on Virginia topics. From the University of Virginia Libraries.
- Library of Virginia: What We Have
Lists research resources available at the Library of Virginia including books, archives, manuscripts, and business, government, land and tax records.
- Redistricting Virginia
Information about the redistricting process in Virginia following the 2000 Census. From the Division of Legislative Services.
- Report of the Secretary of the Commonwealth (aka Virginia Blue Book)
Annual publication that lists all departments, boards, councils, commissions, and other entities of the Virginia state government. Also includes State Government Organization Chart and Lobbyists Directory.
- State Blue Books
Offers alphabetical list of state directories of government officials. From GODORT State and Local Task Force.
- State Government Information Index
Offers basic information about each of the 50 states plus links to each state's government web sites developed by libraries across the country. Developed by Kathleen Amen, Louis J. Blume Library, St Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas.
- State Legislatures, State Laws and State Regulations
Offers website links and telephone numbers for state laws, codes, and registers. From the Legislative Source Book of the Law Librarians' Society of Washington DC.
- StateMaster
Offers a database of comparative state statistics based on federal agency statistics. Also offers visual displays such as charts, graphs, and scatterplots. From Rapid Intelligence, an independent web company.
- VASTAT
Business and economic statistics grouped under more than 40 topics for Virginia and the U.S. From the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service of the University of Virginia.
- Virginia Code Commission
Access to the Code of Virginia, the Code of Administrative Regulations, the Virginia Register of Regulations, and the Digests of the Acts of the Assembly. From the Code Commission.
- Virginia General Assembly Legislative Information System.
Text of bills and resolutions from the current and past sessions of the General Assembly, committee organization and membership, study reports to the General Assembly and more. From the Division of Legislative Services.
- Virginia State Documents
Alphabetical list of Virginia agency publications either available at the agency website or by request. From the Library of Virginia.
- Virginia Statistical Abstract
Offers some 700 tables of Virginia data on a wide variety of topics--employment, taxes, agriculture, crime, education, trade, construction, health, vital statistics, population, finance, tourism, the environment and more--with comparisons to neighboring states and the U.S.
