Tatiana Pashkova-Balkenhol
Business Reference & Government Documents Coordinator
William Allen White Library, Emporia State University
(620) 341-5049 tpashkov@emporia.edu
Developing Government Information Expertise or a Plan of Attack for Instruction
in a Small Academic Library
Step 1: Learn from others
Cox, Jennifer, and Susie Skarl. “Government Information Education and Training: a Selected Annotated
Bibliography.” Reference Services Interview 32.3 (2004): 313-19.
Dttp:Documents to the People. 34.2 (Summer 2006).
Downie, Judith. “The Current Information Literacy Instruction Environment for Government Documents,
pt I.” Dttp:Documents to the People 32.2 (Summer 2004): 36-39.
_ _ _. “Integrating Government Documents into Information Literacy Instruction, part II.” Dttp:Documents
to the People 32.4 (Winter 2004): 17-22.
Hogenboom, Karen. “Going Beyond.Gov: Using Government Information to Teach Evaluation of
Sources.” Portal: Libraries & the Academy 5.4 (Oct. 2005): 455-66.
Hollens, Deborah. “Documents to the … Freshman! Early Exploration of Government Documents.”
Dttp:Documents to the People 32.4 (Winter 2004): 15-17.
The University of Michigan Library Documents Center <www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/dlteach.html>.
Step 2: Share with colleagues
GODORT Handout Exchange <http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/godort.html>.
Orth-Alfie, Carmen, and Jeff Bullington. “Government Information Awareness to the Masses (of Staff and
Users).” Brick and Click Libraries: Proceedings of an Academic Library Symposium, 14 Oct.
2005, Northwest Missouri State University. Maryville, MO: 2005. 92-97.
Rawan, Atifa, and Jennifer Cox. “Government Publications Integration and Training.” Journal of
Government Information 22.3 (1995): 253-66.
Step 3: Collaborate with faculty
Ragains, Patrick. “Promoting U.S. Census Data in an Academic Environment: Opportunities and
Challenges.” Journal of Government Information 22. 4 (1995): 321-35.
Tims, Betty. “Interactive Team Teaching of Government Documents Data Sources: a Case Study.” RSR
16.3 (1988): 69-72.
Step 4: Every effort is counted
American Memory Collections <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/>.
Public Papers of US Presidents <http://www.hti.umich.edu/p/ppotpus/>.
Yale Avalon Project <http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm>.