Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Government Information? Why Now? 1 Stakeholders in U.S. Government Information 2 Understanding the Governmental Process 3 The Government and Education 4 The Government and Science 5 The Government and the Arts and Humanities 6 The Government and Numbers: The Census and Beyond 7 The Government and Money 8 More Government on the Web: Agency Pages, Digital Information, Apps, and Mobile Sites 9 Finding the Needle in the Haystack 10 Joining the FDLP: Are You Eligible? What's in It for You? Conclusion Index

Promotional Information

Specifically focusing on the resources on federal government available online, this book supports the education of young citizens and supplies directions for conducting programs for youth on the government.

About the Author

Dorothy Ormes, MLS, MEd, is associate professor and government information/instruction librarian at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR.

Reviews

The entirety of the book can be used by librarians helping youth, and the vast majority of the book can be used independently by youth who want to research on their own. In the age of cutbacks and limited funding for education, books like Free Government e-Resources for Youth can be quite handy for librarians and researchers alike.
*VOYA*

Free Government e-Resources for Youth: Inform, Inspire, and Activate offers an avenue for librarians to teach youth about the basics of democracy and how government works. . . . Ormes [offers] a thorough primer on available online resources and takes a lot of the guesswork out of where to start looking for educational materials related to government information. Free Government e-Resources for Youth serves as a convenient handbook that is easy to mine for ideas and to put into use as needed.
*The Library Quarterly*