Selected Continuing Education and Professional Development Activities

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FDLP Academy

  • New Data Tools from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
  • Introduction to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Data.
  • Introduction to Data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
  • Federal Government Databases and Websites: A Surprising Source of State and Local Data.
  • OSTI.GOV: Making Science More Open, Efficient, and Reproducible.
  • Data by Census Tracts from the CDC and USDA.
  • Census Data: Accessing Geographies within Geographies.
  • Census Business Builder 2.3: What’s New.
  • Collection Stewardship: Protecting the Access Rights of Present and Future Users.
  • Considering the Census: How Past Questions about Race and Ethnicity Can Help Predict Future Questions about Gender and Sexuality.
  • American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899.
  • We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We’re in the Public Record: Federal Government Documents on the LGBT Movement.
  • Update to the Census Bureau’s New Dissemination Platform.
  • Using The DOE Data Explorer (DDE) To Find DOE-Funded Research Data.
  • Who, What, Where, When and How? Legislative Research When You’vevReached the End of What You Know.
  • FDLP PURL Usage Report – Analyzing Usage of Digital FDLP Resources.
  • Providing Access to Digital Documents.
  • Discover Economic History with FRASER.
  • Defense Department Statistical Resources.
  • 2020 Census and How It Will Impact Libraries.
  • Introduction to OpenRefine: Using Open Software to Weed and Manage your Government Documents Collection.
  • Open Web Resources Available from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Geospatial Management Office (GMO).
  • Overview of COVID-19 and CDC’s Response to the Pandemic with a Highlight of Federal COVID-19 Resources.
  • Introducing Documents Data Miner 3 – The Next Generation FDLP Data Mining and Collection Management Tool.
  • Cataloging and Indexing at the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
  • Impact of COVID 19 to 2020 Census Operations.
  • The Presidential Records Act in the Age of Twitter.
  • What Should Librarians Know About Differential Privacy and the 2020 Census?
  • Aliens in Arizona, the Bermuda Triangle, and Area 13: Answering Controversial Questions From Our Users, Calming Fears, and Promoting Government Information as Reliable and Accurate.
  • Cite It with Style! How to Cite Government Information Resources like a Pro.
  • Proposed Legislative Changes for the FDLP.
  • In the Midst of Mega Misinformation: Government Information Is Still Reliable.
  • U.S. Congressional Set Collection Debuting on govinfo.
  • New and High Frequency Data Products.
  • Foreign Trade Data Before the Advent of Online Sources.
  • Inside the Monthly Labor Review: 107 Years of Historical Data.
  • Midwest National Collection Service Area Print Distribution.
  • How the National Security Archive Uses the FOIA to Expand Access to Our History.
  • How to find Old SuDoc Classification Numbers.
  • The 1950s Census.
  • Secrets of the Super Searchers II – Statistics.
  • Finding Social Science Data using Federal and State Resources.
  • Data Librarianship.
  • GovInfo API Overview and Search Service Preview.
  • USPTO Intellectual Property Resources.
  • Paper Maps & Rogue TIGERs: Using Government Documents to Digitize 1980 Census Blocks for IPUMS NHGIS.
  • Secrets of the Super Searchers III – Law.
  • Secrets of the Super Searchers IV – Old School Wisdom, New School Tools for Difficult Questions.
  • DiscoverGov: A New Search Tool for Federal Government Information.
  • Introducing FDLP Data Manager (FDM) – a new tool to assist in managing FDLP collections.
  • Researching Women’s, Gender, and LGBTQIA+ Perspectives at the Library of Congress.
  • Working with Your Library’s Item Selection Profile.
  • Depository Selection Information Management System (DSIMS).
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Institutional Repository (IR) Implementing Public Access
  • We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We’re in the Public Record: Federal Government Documents on the LGBTQ Movement: 2024 Update.
  • Data.gov: Update on OPEN Government Data Act Implementation.
  • Taking the Department to the People: Editing Wikipedia to Help Ensure Equitable Access to USDA National Agricultural Library Resources and Collections.
  • Empowering Democracy: Unlocking the GODORT Voter & Elections Toolkit.
  • Discovery of Indigenous Publication Records by using USGS Geology Research Tools.

GODORT Webinars and Chats

  • Combating Voter Suppression: What Can Libraries Do?
  • Democratic Engagement: Supporting Students as Engaged Citizens
  • Government Information in Evidence Synthesis: Challenges & Opportunities
  • Practical ways we are addressing Federal government information websites disappearing during
    an Executive transition
  • Library Communities and Impact to Cataloging Operations without CRDP and Marcive

Help! I’m An Accidental Government Information Librarian Series

  • Resources from the National Agriculture Library.
  • Census Bureau Data Access.
  • Census Sources Outside of American FactFinder.
  • World Bank Online Resources Every Government Information Librarian Should Know About.
  • What were they thinking?! Exploring America’s voting preferences and attitudes using the American National Election Study.
  • Census Microdata: What, Why and Where.
  • Current Population Survey: the Labor Survey for the United States.

Census Bureau Webinars

  • The 2017 Economic Census: A Preview of What’s New and What’s Coming Soon.
  • Hidden Gems and Where to Find Them on Census.gov.
  • New Updates to data.census.gov.
  • Census Business Builder 2.6: What’s New.
  • data.census.gov: Navigating a New Site for Census Bureau Data.
  • Accessing the Economic Census for Local Area Data on data.census.gov.
  • Collecting and Tabulating Ethnicity and Race Responses in the 2020 Census.
  • Improved Navigation on data.census.gov.
  • Census Bureau Sources for American Indian and Alaska Native Research.
  • Impact of Pandemic on the American Community Survey.

Vendor Training and Webinars

  • Accessibility for LibGuides. Springshare.
  • Escalex training. Training provided by vendor rep for the food regulations database.
  • The Role of the Vendor in Integrating Diversity, Inclusion & Social Justice into Collection Management. MSU Libraries’ Art of Liaison, Instruction, and Selection Series. Presented by Jenny Hudson (GOBI).
  • How to receive MARC records for your U.S. government document titles from OCLC.
  • Voter Focus. DataMapping basics on using L2 for political campaigns, research, and analysis.
  • Consumer Focus. DataMapping basics using the L2 national consumer file.
  • Constituent Focus. L2 DataMapping basics for government users at the Federal, State and Local levels for constituent targeting and outreach.

Other

  • NACO Training. MSU Libraries. Training led by Lucas Mak.
  • Data Literacy Bootcamp. All day data literacy event organized by MiALA.
  • Quest I Foundations (Introduction to LGBTQA+ Identities). Presentation at the MSU Libraries by the LBGT Resource Center.
  • BTAA Liaison Institute. One-hour meetings, twice a month from January-March 2021.
  • Words Matter for the CSU: Inclusive Description Task Force. Webinar about best practices for inclusive cataloging.
  • What’s New and Different with OLAC Cataloging Best Practices. OLAC webinar.
  • Dropping the Other I-Word: Local LCSH Replacements. CORE webinar about replacing unethical or problematic subject headings.
  • Using Critical Reflection to Navigate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Issues. CORE webinar.
  • NACO (Name Authority Cooperative Project) training led by Autumn Faulkner.
  • BTAA Critical and Anti-Racist Pedagogy Symposium.