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Check our newly revised Government Info link under “Research Tools,” at the bottom of the COCC Barber Library homepage! Here, you’ll find new categories and links we added just for  you: “How to Cite Government Docs,” “Statistics,” “Climate Information,” “U.S. History,” etc.  Under the category WEB SEARCH ENGINES, you’ll also see an Ask a Librarian link (Government Information Online ) which gives you a cool way to “ask government information librarians who are experts at finding information from government agencies of all levels (local, state, regional, national international) on almost any subject from aardvarks to zygomycosis!”

Mme. Currie and 4 students (LOC)

Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress

There’s been lots of buzz around the new joint project between the Library of Congress and flickr, the photo sharing site we blogged about last year.

The Library of Congress has uploaded several thousand photographs from their collection and invited the public to help tag the photos, to leave comments, and to otherwise enjoy a color photo collection from the 1930s & ’40s as well as a black and white collection of news photos from the 1910s. There has already been an amazing response to the photos–over 1 million views in just two days!

These photos are just a small sample of the many fabulous LOC digital collections like the American Memory Project and the Veterans History Project, but the social features made possible by flickr make this project into something else entirely.  It’s beautiful when history meets technology!

Graduation is coming up and I’m sure finding a job is on the minds of many graduates. Though some come to school knowing exactly what they want to do with their degrees, plenty of folks aren’t sure what to do when they finish. I had no idea what I wanted to do when I finished my degree, but I wish I had known about the Occupational Outlook Handbook. Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Labor, the Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is a treasure trove of information about the kinds of things you might be expected to do in a particular job, the education and/or training you might need, how much you might expect to earn, and whether the market for a particular job is expected to grow or not (and how quickly it might be expected to grow, or not) in the future.

In addition to information about particular occupations, the OOH website also includes tips on job hunting and the links to occupational outlook information by state.

If you’d rather curl up with a book than your computer screen, the library has the Occupational Outlook Handbook in print, too. We also have lots of books about resume writing, interviewing, and job hunting in the Campus Library–stop by and check out what we have to offer!