FDLP Distribution and COVID-19: Updates and Information

CALL TO ACTION

On October 22, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Highway Beautification Act, which attempted to limit billboards and other forms of outdoor advertising, as well as junkyards and other unsightly roadside messes, along America’s interstate highways. The act also encouraged “scenic enhancement” by funding local efforts to clean up and landscape the green spaces on either side of the roadways. Check out these resources from the CGP:

• Control of junkyards under the Highway beautification act : comparative summary of Federal and State laws and regulations
• Highway beautification and scenic road program : hearings before the Subcommittee on Public Roads, Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eighty-ninth Congress, first session
• Native wildflowers, roadside signs of hope [microform] : wildflowers and the federal-aid highway program
• Scenic byways : a design guide for roadside improvements
• Current and innovative solutions to roadside revegetation using native plants
• Community guide to planning & managing a scenic byway

On October 27, 1858, future President Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City. He served in the New York state legislature from 1881 to 1884, as U.S. Civil Service commissioner from 1885 to 1889 in Washington, D.C., and then as New York City’s police commissioner from 1895 to 1897. President William McKinley chose Roosevelt as assistant secretary of the Navy later that year. The Republican Party nominated him to be William McKinley’s vice-presidential running mate in 1900. Roosevelt began the first of his two terms in the White House after President McKinley was shot by an assassin in 1901. Check out these resources from the CGP:

• Bunny ranger program, Theodore Roosevelt Museum at Old Orchard : do you see what I see?
• Theodore Roosevelt and his Sagamore Hill home--a Junior Ranger activity
• Theodore Roosevelt Museum history hunt--a Junior Ranger activity
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
• Index to the Theodore Roosevelt papers
• The Code of civil procedure of the Canal Zone

Introducing the U.S. Congressional Serial Set collection on govinfo! The initial release includes select volumes from the 69th Congress, the 82nd Congress, and several 19th century Congresses.

Jane Sanchez previously served GPO as its Director of Library Services and Content Management. Prior to her passing in early 2021, she worked as the Law Librarian of Congress and spearheaded the effort to digitize the Congressional Serial Set. The staff at GPO is grateful to Jane for her many contributions to the FDLP.

GPO names the Government Publications Library at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities as the 2021 Federal Depository Library of the Year. Learn more.

Chris Brown, Professor and Reference Librarian, has been serving as Coordinator for Government Documents at the University of Denver since 1998. He served on Depository Library Council from 2012-2015, with his primary goal being to get vendors with library discovery tools to feature Government information more prominently. He recently published Mastering United States Government Information: Sources and Services (Libraries Unlimited, 2020).