Public knowledge : access and benefits / edited by Miriam A. Drake and Donald T. Hawkins ; foreword by Judith Coffey Russell.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Relationship between citizen information literacy and public information use / Forest "Woody" Horton, Jr -- Beyond LMGTFY : access to government information in a networked world / James A. Jacobs, University of California, San Diego and James R. Jacobs, Stanford University Library -- Government resources in the classroom / Susanne Caro, Mansfield Library, University of Montana -- Government Publishing Office / Miriam A. Drake and Donald T. Hawkins -- Library of Congress / Miriam A. Drake -- National Library of Medicine / Katherine B. Majewski and Wanda Whitney, National Library of Medicine -- The Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (part 1) : extending the reach and impact of DOE research results / Brian A. Hitson and Peter M. Lincoln, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information -- The Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (part 2) : bringing the world's research to DOE / Brian A. Hitson and Peter M. Lincoln, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information -- NASA's scientific and technical information for a changing world / Lynn Heimerl, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program -- National Technical Information Service : public access as a driver for change / Gail Hodge, Information International Associates, Inc -- Federal statistics past and present / Mark Anderson, James A. Michener Library, University of Northern Colorado -- Agricultural information and the National Agricultural Library / Marianne Stowell Bracke, Purdue University -- Hidden government information / Miriam A. Drake -- Open government, big data, and the future of government information / Barbie E. Keiser, Barbie E. Keiser, Inc.

Public Knowledge: Access and Benefits, edited by the late Miriam A. Drake together with Donald T. Hawkins, is the first book in years to explore trends and issues for researchers and organizations that rely on U.S. public information. More than a dozen topic experts, information specialists, and government documents librarians discuss the challenges inherent in collecting, preserving, updating, and disseminating a deluge of information generated daily by public sources. Contributors describe agencies at the forefront of managing the information, explore the role of the federal government and i.

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