BP Oil Spill Sources

Hello!

Here are few resources on the Deepwater BP oil spill.

Video, transcript, and White House Blog entry of President Obama's press conference.

The White House's page on the Deepwater BP oil spill.

Deepwater Horizon Response: Official site of the Deepwater Unified Command. The Coast Guard's Admiral Thad Allan is in charge of the clean up and this is the offical website talking about his operations.

Enjoy!
Melissa.
Government Documents Coordinator

Minnesota's Legislative History

From Robbie LaFleur of the MN Legislative Reference Library:

The Legislative Time Capsule is a new feature on the Legislative
Reference Library's website.

During the past 40 years of the Librarýs history, we have tracked
statistics about the Legislature. What first started as typewritten
lists in notebooks became text files on a computer and then pages on
our website. Still, researchers looking at individual sessions had
to find and compile statistics from many databases and web pages.
Wéve taken a giant step toward useful consolidation of legislative
statistics on the web, combining scattered data for each legislative
session. You can quickly find information on members, bills, laws,
vetoes, dates, special sessions, leadership, and more. The pages
draw information from the House and Senate, the Office of the Revisor
of Statutes, Legislative Manuals, and lists compiled by the
Legislative Reference Library.

The Legislative Time Capsule pages will only get better as we add
data and categories. For example, lists of committees are available
now back to 1917, but the remaining years will be added soon. As
time allow and staffing allow, we will add election results,
legislative district descriptions, links to books and articles about
the activities of each year, and more. If you have comments or
questions about the pages, or suggestions for information you would
like to see included, email us at refdesk@lrl.leg.mn.

Enjoy!
Melissa
Government Documents Coordinator

MINITEX REFERENCE REFERRAL

Minitex Reference Referral is a service that helps with questions that can't be answered with your library's resources. The 4 librarians on staff will take questions from public, academic or special libraries.

Reference Referral will do the following things to answer your queries:

• Search all University of Minnesota resources, including databases.


• Make trips to The Minnesota Historical Society and Hennepin County libraries.


• Contact experts and other libraries, either in Minnesota or nation-wide.
  
  

The number of questions they receive has been going down due to the Internet, but the ones they do get are harder. How long it takes to get an answer varies by how difficult the question is. Just like SPPL, they do not give legal, medical, or tax advice or appraisals on collectibles.

Please do the following when submitting queries:

• Let them know what sources you have already consulted.


• If you know a resource is available at the University, please suggest it.


• Specify if it is a rush request, or if it is not needed after a certain date.

Questions may be submitted by phone, email, or through the Mylibrary portal. You need to create a username and password for Mylibrary, but then you can go back and check on the status of the question online. Why not create your account today so you'll be ready when the time comes? You can then browse and see all the questions your SPPL colleagues have submitted.

--Andrea