| Meeting |
Date |
Topics |
Unit 1: |
Introduction to the Study of Government Information |
| 1 |
WED |
June 4 |
Introduction to the course |
| |
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Introduction to government and information |
| |
|
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Tour of government information collection
at PCL |
Unit 2: |
United States Federal Government Information |
| 2 |
THU |
June 5 |
Selected history of federal information activities |
| |
|
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Federal Depository Library Program |
| |
|
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Finding aids |
| |
|
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Tour of government information collection
at Public Affairs Library |
| 3 |
TUE |
June 10 |
Federal legislative information |
| |
|
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Legislative histories |
| |
|
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The U.S. Code |
| 4 |
WED |
June 11 |
The Presidency and selected executive branch
agencies |
| |
|
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The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations and
the Federal Register |
| 5 |
THU |
June 12 |
Federal judicial information: the U.S. Supreme,
District, and Appeals Courts |
| |
|
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Major digital repositories of federal judicial
information |
| |
|
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Assignment due: Identification of research
team, federal or state agency, and information initiative (1 p.) GRP |
| 6 |
TUE |
June 17 |
Spatially-referenced information: Geographic
Information |
| |
|
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Systems (GIS) and maps |
| |
|
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Assignment due: U.S. Federal
information problem set (25%) |
| 7 |
WED |
June 18 |
Sources of statistical data |
| |
|
|
2000 U.S. Census |
Unit 3: |
Texas and Other State Information |
| 8 |
THU |
June 19 |
No class meeting |
| |
|
|
Tour of UT Law Library |
| |
|
|
Review of online lesson material: Texas
legislative information |
| 9 |
TUE |
June 24 |
No class meeting |
| |
|
|
Review of online lesson material: Texas
regulatory information |
| |
|
|
Assignment due: Spatial
and statistical information problem set (10%) |
| 10 |
WED |
June 25 |
No class meeting |
| |
|
|
Tour of Texas Law Library or Texas State
Library and Archives Commission |
| |
|
|
Review of online lesson material: Texas
judicial information |
Unit 4: |
The United Nations and Other Sources of International Government Information
|
| 11 |
THU |
June 26 |
No class meeting |
| |
|
|
Tour of international document collections
at PCL |
| |
|
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Review of online lesson material: United
Nations documents |
| |
|
|
Assignment due: Outline
or full draft of agency report GRP |
Unit 5: |
Selected Government Information Policy Areas |
| 12 |
TUE |
July 1 |
Information resources management (IRM) and
paperwork reduction |
| |
|
|
Assignment due: Texas,
state, and international information problem set (10%) |
| 13 |
WED |
July 2 |
Federal freedom of information and state
open records |
| |
|
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Intellectual property |
| |
|
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Fees for government information |
| 14 |
THU |
July 3 |
E-government |
| |
|
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Constitutional conflict among the three branches
of government about printing and information dissemination |
| 15 |
TUE |
July 8 |
Surveillance and terror |
| |
|
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Privacy |
| |
|
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Assignment due: Report on
specific federal or state agency’s information service (five double-spaced
pp.)(25%) GRP |
| 16 |
WED |
July 9 |
Course evaluation |
| |
|
|
Course summary |
| |
FRI |
July 11 |
Assignment due: Government
information issue paper (five double-spaced pp.) (20%) |
