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Subject(s)

• Government publications—Hawaii—Textbooks [Browse]
• Legal research—Hawaii—Textbooks [Browse]
• Law—Hawaii—Textbooks [Browse]

Related name

• University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Textbooks [Browse]

Summary note

"Government Information: A Reference for Librarians in Hawai'i draws on a wide range of sources to educate librarians about federal, state, local, and international government information with an emphasis on Hawai'i. Case studies illustrate specific types of government information. Each chapter features a list of additional resources for further reading."--Book description.

Notes

Textbook developed by Gwen Sinclair for Government Documents LIS 648 course taught in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library and Information Science Program.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Online resource; title from PDF title page, viewed October 11, 2024.

Rights and reproductions note

Government Information: A Reference for Librarians in Hawai'i by Gwen Sinclair is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Contents

• 1. Introduction to government information
• 2. Statutory law and congressional materials
• 3. Regulations and administrative law
• 4. Judicial branch and legal information
• 5. The executive branch
• 6. Data and statistics
• 7. Census data
• 8. Intellectual property
• 9. Scientific and technical information
• 10. State and local documents
• 11. Hawaiʻi documents
• 12. Foreign government information
• 13. The United Nations and intergovernmental organizations
• 14. Geospatial information
• 15. Hawaiʻi geospatial information
• 16. Dissemination, collection development, and bibliographic control
• 17. Freedom of information and open government
• 18. Genealogy resources.

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OCLC

1460327239

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