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President Obama to Reveal Message to ALA Conference

On Sunday, President Barack Obama will release a special video message to ALA Conference attendees thanking libraries for helping Americans enroll for health insurance as part of the Affordable Care Act.

The special message from the White House will air on Sunday, June 30, 2013, at 8:30a.m. in the McCormick Convention Center, room South 100C. President Obama will discuss ways that libraries will serve as a place where consumers can seek information about and enroll in the health insurance marketplace that will begin October 1, 2013.

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When the original Mermaids special ran, NOAA got pelted with so many demands for more information on its mermaid discoveries that the agency felt compelled to issue a statement on its Web site that said: No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found.

Are mermaids real? The public turns to the government for answers.

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when i spend my friday night blogging conference notes

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The OGP Action Plan for Ukraine integrates Ukrainian libraries into the country’s e-governance strategy. Librarians and government officers will receive special training focusing on access to e-governance resources at the library and on government-citizen online interaction. The plan also envisages a public information campaign that will inform the public about new e-governance services...

I'm happy to see that public libraries and government are officially teaming up to help the public with government services. Go Ukraine!

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Nominate Notable Government Documents

Please help ALA's Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) promote the uniqueness and importance of government information resources by nominating outstanding government publications to be featured in the annual Notable Documents column of Library Journal.

The deadline to nominate a document is January 4, 2013.