NABC LIBRARY LINKS TO GOVERNMENT INFORMATION

 

General: Information by Topic

USA.gov – The U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal http://www.usa.gov/

FedWorld.gov (links to top US Government Websites) http://www.fedworld.gov/govlinks.html

Google U.S. Government Search http://www.google.com/ig/usgov

 

GPO Access (service of the U.S. Government Printing Office) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/

GPO Access: Federal Resources Organized by Topic (topical index of government Internet sites)http://www.gpoaccess.gov/topics/index.html

North Carolina Government Portal http://www.ncgov.com/

Occupational Outlook Handbook at　http://www.bls.gov/oco/

Thomas (Library of Congress) http://thomas.loc.gov/

University of Michigan Documents Center http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/

US House of Representatives (laws, bills, votes, etc.) http://www.house.gov/

Education

 

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) http://www.eric.ed.gov/

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (free teaching resources and lesson plans from the federal government) http://free.ed.gov/

National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education) http://nces.ed.gov/

 

Health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/

 

Medline Plus Health Information from the National Library of http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

US Department of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/

 

History

 

Library of Congress: American Memory (various topics including African Americans, Native Americans, culture, music, religion, etc.) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

Teaching with Historic Places: American Indian History http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/nov99.htm

 

Library/Librarianship

Library of Congress: Librarians, Archivists http://www.loc.gov/library/

 

 

Native Americans/American Indians

 

 

Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S. Department of the Interior) http://www.doi.gov/bia/

Bureau of Indian Education http://www.oiep.bia.edu/

First People http://www.firstpeople.us/

Indians/Native Americans – U.S.A. Search.gov http://usasearch.gov/search?v%3Aproject=firstgov-web&query=Native+Americans

Tracing Indian Ancestry http://www.doi.gov/ancestry.html

U.S. Census Bureau: American Indian and Alaska Native Populationshttp://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/indian.html

US Department of Health and Human Services: Indian Health Service http://www.ihs.gov/index_main.asp

 

 

Science and Computer Technology

 

 

Science.gov http://www.science.gov/

 

Social Sciences and Missions

Information concerning various nations and cultures is valuable for courses in social sciences (e.g., sociology, church history, marriage and family) and missions (e.g., church growth, personal evangelism, and cross-cultural communication). The ministries of pastors, teachers, missionaries, evangelists, etc. benefit from demographic information and statistics. Such information is available at the following government Websites:

 

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

World Fact Book https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

 

Library of Congress

 

Portals to the World at http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

 

 

United Nations

 

 

Country at a Glance http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp

 

U.N. Cyber Schoolbus http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/index.asp

InfoNation (view and compare statistical data on UN member states)http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation3/menu/advanced.asp

 

Indigenous Peoples http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/indigenous/index.asp

 

 

 

United States State Department

Home Page http://www.state.gov/

Countries (countries and regions of the world) http://www.state.gov/countries/

History, Education, Culture http://www.state.gov/history /

International Issues http://www.state.gov/interntl/

Travel and Living Abroad http://www.state.gov/travel/

WWW Virtual Library

 

International Affairs Resources (annotated links to a variety of subjects) http://www2.etown.edu/vl/

United States Government Information Sources http://www2.etown.edu/vl/usgovt.html

 

 

European Union at http://www2.etown.edu/vl/eurunion.html

United Nations at http://www2.etown.edu/vl/un.html

Other Intergovernmental Organizations at http://www2.etown.edu/vl/otherigo.html

Other Government Websites Offering Demographics and Statistics

American FactFinder (statistics on population, health and nutrition, elections, geography, environment, communications, etc.) http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Data and Links (statistical data on Native Americans) http://factfinder.census.gov/home/aian/index.html

 

Data.gov http://www.data.gov/

 

Federal Citizen Information Center of the U.S. General Services Administration (links to family, education, health, etc.) http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/

Federal Statistics (gateway for statistics from over 100 federal agencies) http://www.fedstats.gov/

Map Maker (allows researcher to make own map based on information/statistics needed)http://www.nationalatlas.gov/natlas/Natlasstart.asp

National Atlas http://www.nationalatlas.gov/

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) – School District Demographicshttp://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sdds/index.asp

U.S. Census Bureau Home Page http://www.census.gov/

Population and Household Economic Topics (links to various subjects; e.g., age, ancestry, births, children, deaths, education, families, foreign born, grandparents, Hispanic origin, households and families, immigration, language use, marital status and living arrangements, overseas U.S. population, poverty, race, wealth, and well-being, etc.)http://www.census.gov/population/www/index.html

Statistical Resources on the Web (U.S. and foreign) http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html

University of Michigan Documents Center (federal, state, and local government information, also foreign and international governments and agencies) http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/