[Libs-Or] New Oregon reference tool: Data for Local Communities

[Tom Stave]

Oregon colleagues:

I am happy to announce the inauguration of a brand new reference tool for 
Oregon libraries.  "Data for Local Communities" 
<http://libweb.uoregon.edu/dlc> is an easy-to-use way to locate web-based 
information about Oregon's cities, counties, watersheds, school districts, 
and other sub-state areas.  Users may query its database by topic or 
keyword, and filter their results by the geographic level appropriate to 
their needs (e.g. "test results" by school district; or "income tax" by 
county).  The resultant records describe and provide direct links to the 
actual data held on State, federal or non-governmental web pages.  In 
addition to the database of web resources are useful links to sources of 
statistical and geospatial data for Oregon communities, and a tool for 
querying Orbis Cascade's Summit union catalog for writings about Oregon's 
cities and counties.

Data for Local Communities was created by a team at the University of 
Oregon Libraries, and is a project of the Orbis Cascade Alliance.  It was 
supported by a grant from the Oregon State Library, under the Library 
Services and Technology Act (LSTA), a program of the U.S. Institute of 
Museum and Library Services.  We hope you will find this new resource 
useful, and invite you to incorporate it into your repertoire of reference 
sources.  We further hope you will submit suggestions for additions to the 
database; there is a convenient form for this purpose.

Read more about the project 
<http://libweb.uoregon.edu/news/stories/dataforcommunities.htm> or contact 
Tom Stave <tstave at uoregon.edu> for more information.

Please notice that my email address has changed: tstave at uoregon.edu.

Tom Stave, Head
Document Center
University of Oregon Library
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
tstave at uoregon.edu
(541) 346-3060