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The Forms Catalog , from Forms.gov, provides users with a common access point to search for federal agency forms. Forms are searchable by agency, title, or form number. From Law Librarian Blog .

While it's easy to find legal resources online, it's not as easy to find quality legal resources on the Internet. InSITE can help. Since 1996, Cornell law librarians have been finding high-quality websites and adding them to the InSITE database. They also offer tips about using the websites, including a summary of the content, in the database annotations. Use the search feature to find websites on a particular topic. InSITE also offers a bi-weekly newsletter highlighting new additions to the database and just announced an RSS feed. Visit InSITE for more details. Happy 10th Anniversary InSITE!

Captured al-Qa'ida documents in the Department of Defense's Harmony Database have recently been released. Some of these documents have been declassified and have been given to the Combatting Terrorism Center ("CTC") at West Point. Twenty-five of these documents are available from the CTC as PDF files. These documents include such things as Al-Qa'ida's Bylaws, Al-Qa'ida Goals and Structure, and letters from Bin Laden. These documents are available here from the CTC. From NESLReference .

ResourceShelf has compiled a very comprehensive list of resource links for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. The list includes links to maps, photos, Olympic history databases, event guides and much more.

Call numbers are great because they keep together a complete run of a law journal whereas an alphabetical sorting would require law journals to be scattered all over the library. Take for example the Brandeis law journal. The Brandeis law journal is the new title of the Brandeis Journal of Family Law which used to be called University of Louisville Journal of Family Law and before that the journal was titled the Journal of family law, University of Louisville School of Law. (This example was chosen because I just happened to be looking for that journal; I know there are other journals with just as many changes or even more!) There are many creditable reasons why a journal would change names, such a shift in focus from more general coverage to a more specific topic or vice versa. Also a journal may wax and wane in interest as the topics they traditionally cover goes from very hot and new to old news (e.g. energy law in terms of petroleum very hot during the 1970s, not as hot in the 19

The Government Accountability Office ("GAO") has compiled a list of GAO Reports and Testimonies Related to Disaster Preparedness, Response and Reconstruction , which concern the quality of the federal government's activities with respect to man-made and natural disasters. It includes reports on topics such as homeland security, public health, the response to the September 11, 2001, attacks, and the response and recovery efforts for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. From Librarians' Internet Index .

The Budget of the U.S. Government, FY 2007 , has been released. It is available on GPO Access . From GPO Access: Issued by the Office of Management and Budget, the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year. Other related and supporting budget publications, such as the Economic Report of the President, are included, which may vary from year to year