Dan Stanton

Government Information Librarian

Arizona State University

A Brief History of Federal Government Information The Rise of The Google The Response

FDsys MetaLib

Future Focus

Constitution Printing and Distribution Laws Madison – 1822 Serial Set Government Printing Office – 1860 General Printing Act – 1895

Monthly Catalog Expansion of the Federal Government

*Forte, E. J., Hartnett, C. J., & Sevetson, A. (2011). Fundamentals of government information: Mining, finding, evaluating, and using government resources. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers.

Depository Library Act of 1962 1976 – GPO uses LCSH, MOCAT into OCLC Paper work Reduction Act of 1980 GPO Access Act of 1993 Other issues

Freedom of Information Act of 1966 9/11 Government-funded Research Permanent Public Access

*Forte, E. J., Hartnett, C. J., & Sevetson, A. (2011). Fundamentals of government information: Mining, finding, evaluating, and using government resources. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers.

http://www.nextnature.net/2009/10/your-grandparents-google/

One search to rule them all, one search to find them, One search to return them all, and in the results hide them

YearAnnual Number of Google Searches

Average Searches Per Day

2011 1,722,071,000,000 4,717,000,000

*http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches/

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Issues Benefits

• Page Ranks • Easy

• Algorithms • Results!!!

• Google Bombs • Everything (?)

• Content Farms • Integrated

• Advertising • Bells, Whistles, Doodles

• Authority