Federal government shutdown: keeping track?

Tue Oct 1 16:28:24 EDT 2013

As a followup, here's what we've noticed about government research information: while a few sites are completely down, often the home page has the closure notice or a banner about limited support and updating, but the site information and subsidiary sites remain available.  Those are noted below as "limited."  

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: limited
Agricola: down
Bureau of Economic Analysis: down
Bureau of Justice Statistics: available
Bureau of Labor Statistics: limited 
Census (and FedStats): down
Data.gov: down
EDGAR: available
ERIC: down
fdSys: limited 
Federal Election Commission: limited 
Library of Congress: limited (thomas.gov and beta.congress.gov available)
MedlinePlus: limited 
National Archives and Records Administration: limited 
NCJRS: available
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency: limited
Pubmed: limited
RegInfo: available

As far as backoffice functions are concerned, what my colleagues tell me is:

no ordering of ILL documents from National Library of Medicine
no availability of LC Authorities 
no access to e-verify to check immigration status for hiring

Our Associate Dean did a general blog post at http://www.lib.neu.edu/snippets just to let our stakeholders and users know some of the ways we are affected. 

HTH,

Karen Merguerian
(Northeastern University, Boston MA)

Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 14:10:27 -0400
From: hdalal at RIDER.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Federal government shutdown: keeping track?
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU

      My colleague sent this : 
      http://wtvr.com/2013/09/30/government-shutdown-whats-closed-whats-open/

      And I saw this on facebook. 

      from Government
        Document Librarian colleagues: 

      Status of
        Government websites (as of 12:24pm CT)
      CLOSED ENTIRELY
      Census, BEA,
        BLS, LC, NCES, CDC Wonder, USDA

      OPEN BUT WITH
        NOTES SAYING “NOTHING WILL BE UPDATED…”
      BLS, HUD, CDC,
        NCHS, NIH, USA.gov, AHRQ, And as you already know, GPO 

      OPEN WITH NO
        NOTES ON IT ALL ABOUT THE SHUTDOWN
      USGS

      -- 

Heather Dalal, MLIS, MEd (Instructional Design)
Assistant Professor I-Librarian
Moore Library, Rider University
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-3099
609-895-5731 
      On 10/1/2013 12:02 PM, SCARLETTO, EDITH wrote:

        There
            are notes on each agencies website detailing the shutdown.

            Edith

          Edith
              Scarletto
          Subject
              Librarian for Geography & Geology
          Kent
              State University Libraries
          330-672-1674/330-672-2017
          escarlet at kent.edu

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                On Behalf Of Karen Merguerian

                Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 11:54 AM

                To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU

                Subject: [WEB4LIB] Federal government shutdown:
                keeping track?

          Is
              anyone out there keeping track of information resources
              affected by the federal government shutdown?  I'd like to
              pass along some information to library users, but am not
              sure myself, though I did figure out there are degrees of
              availability: NCJRS and Bureau of Justice Statistics seem
              to be up (maybe due to being part of law enforcement?)
              while PubMed and some of the congressional / regulatory
              sites are available (but with limited support and
              updating), and finally others (ERIC, NOAA) seem to be
              down.  

            I
                know there are a lot of news sites that are tracking
                what services are available, but I'm looking for
                something focused on the research and information
                infrastructure.  Any libraries or library associations
                doing that?  Maybe a wiki or something we can all
                contribute to? 

              Thanks,

              Karen
                  Merguerian

              (Northeastern
                  University, Boston MA)

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