Government Information News Sources, Part Two

When last we met, I had begun to talk about government information news resources. In today's post, I'll be looking at a couple of unexpected resources.

The first site is LexisNexis' Government Info Pro. You might think, "What's unexpected about a government information resource called 'Government Info Pro?'" The answer lies in the author of the blog, Marie Kaddell.

The site is sanctioned by LexisNexis, which could have left it susceptible to becoming a simple corporate shill blog. Kaddell, whose LexisNexis beat is government libraries, has turned it into a more personable guide to government information resources. That's not to say she doesn't promote LexisNexis resources; there's bread to be buttered after all. But she also promotes other resources that are of use to government libraries, and her conference recaps keep her readers' interests in mind.

Kaddell has expanded the scope of Government Info Pro beyond the blog. She has started a podcast, which offers her thoughts on conferences, interviews with government librarians, and recorded broadcasts of the annual LexisNexis Library Week Government Librarian Seminar.

Kaddell also puts together the annual volume of Best Practices for Government Libraries [PDF], which is distributed to attendees of the Library Week Seminar and available for free on the site. Some full disclosure: I contributed a couple of pieces to the 2008 edition. Also, Kaddell is an enthusiastic member of SLA's Government Information Division.

The other unexpected government information news resource I want to discuss is the eGovernment Resource Centre. I learned about this site in my E-Government class at the University of Maryland, and what's unexpected about it is its producer: the state government of Victoria, Australia.

This not just a look at e-government in Victoria. The eGovernment Resource Centre puts together resources and articles about e-government from all over the world and arranges them by topic and groups them by country. I will admit that the site can be a bit tricky to navigate, but it has a lot of interesting information there.

There are also three RSS feeds on the site that provide the latest e-government-related news from just about everywhere. My favorite is the eGov Daily Digest, but I'll warn you that there will be a lot of daily updates. If you're like me, though, you're going to want to know about the status of Austria's e-government initiatives.

(That's not a typo. I'm reading an Australian site for Austrian e-government news.)

Coming up in part three, print resources!