Food, Energy, Water, Health, & informaciόn en espaňol Web Guides Featuring U.S. Government Web Sites
Channel: Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian Webinars
Date: 2020-09-18

The initial focus will be on the presenter’s Spanish-language, food, energy, water, and health guides, which highlight government resources; the most recent one was completed in May 2020. The rationale behind the Spanish language guide and a few examples from it will be part of the discussion. The topical government guides were created to support a multi-section first year composition course. Along with showing the guides, the reasons and thought behind the formatting of them will be described. These highlight opportunities that exist to promote government resources via curricular means. Strategies for making these opportunities into reality will be discussed along with recommendations on what to consider and what to do when creating your own topical guides featuring government resources.  

Presenter: Naomi Lederer, Professor Emerita at Colorado State University Libraries (CSUL), was the Government Information Librarian at CSUL (a Selective Depository) in the years before she retired. She completed the FDLP Coordinator Certificate Program as part of the fall 2018 cohort and used government documents throughout her entire career—which began when pretty much everything was in print. When she took over as Government Information Librarian she brought the existing online guide up-to-date and added new sections to it, including all of the guides that will be the focus of the presentation. 

More information available at the related DttP article: https://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/article/view/7357
Slides available at https://naomilederer.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/LedererHelpTopicalGovGuides920fin.pdf