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Teaching Web pages created by Virginia Depository Librarians
Ask What Your Country Can Do For You: Free Government Web Sites and the SOLs
Ask What Your Country Can Do For You: Free Government Web Sites and the SOLs is a workshop for teachers of U.S. History and Government, based on the 11th and 12th grade Virginia Standards of Learning. The program consists of five hours of instruction, demonstration and hands-on exercises dealing with educational material available for free on government (and a few government-related) web sites. The workshop was first presented on July 26, 2003 and was sponsored by the Virginia Library Association; presenters were Keith Weimer, Government Information Librarian at the University of Richmond and Chair of the Public Documents Forum of the Virginia Library Association; and Maryke Huyding Barber, Government Documents Coordinator at Hollins University's Wyndham Robertson Library
Resources for Teachers: Selected Government Web Sites
Originally presented by Mary Clark, Library of Virginia, and Barbie Selby, UVA, on April 6, 2002 at Buchanan Public Library, Grundy, Virginia. The workshop included exercises based on the web sites covered. It awarded the participants continuing education credits.
Government Information Sampler Selected Government Web Sites
Presented by Carol Hunter, UVA, Mary Clark, Library of Virginia, and Barbie Selby, U.Va. on August 3, 2001 at theSouthwest Virginia Higher Education Center, Abingdon.
A U.S. Government Printing Office Regional Depository Library
This library is a Congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents. Public access to the Government documents is guaranteed by public law.