USA sleuth

In class this weekend we all have a short bibliographic instruction (known as BI in the library world) assignment. it actually sounds kinda fun, everyone is assigned a source, then the prof asks a question and if your source can answer the question then you tell everyone a little about your source and how to use it.

So my source is www.gpoaccess.gov, the entire freaking government printing office. some other people have tough sources like that. and some people have things like imdb, the OED and world book encyclopedias. a freaking dictionary, what can you possibly say? look words up alphabetically.

either the professors hate me or they think i need a challenge. i do need a challenge, and this is a useful one. but if they hold me to the same standards as the person who gets imdb, that's completely unfair.

so if anyone needs to find something printed by the government, i'm your USA sleuth. although, everyone who reads my blog is computer literate enough to use the site without any help. the only hard part is that i need to memorize the fringe information they keep on the site, just in case.