Archive for May 14th, 2009
State Databases: LA – Louisiana Cemeteries
Posted by reblakeley in SLDTF on May 14, 2009
Louisiana is home to some of the most interesting, freaky, and beautiful cemeteries in the country. New Orleans cemeteries are particularly intriguing.
If you would like to find cemeteries to visit in Louisiana, check out the Louisiana Cemetery Board Database where you can locate cemeteries by parish (what you non-Louisiana folks call a “county”) or city. Records include name, address and phone number.
The Louisiana page of State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States is maintained by Rolanda L. Ridley (rridley@suno.ed), Government Documents Librarian at Southern University in New Orleans.
OPAL Session on Authentication
Posted by reblakeley in News on May 14, 2009
Today I attended the “Chat with GPO” OPAL session, which focused on authentication and authentication for FDLP partners.Ted Priebe, GPO’s Director of Library Planning & Development (LPD) and Lisa Russell, the Manager of LPD’s Content Management unit presented material and answered questions.
Basically, LSCM wants to partner with Federal Depository Libraries and find ways to authenticate content hosted by the FDL partners. The digital signatures of authentication will indicate partnership with the FDL institution and the contact information for that institution. This is great news, especially for those FDLs also interested in digital deposit of government documents, a topic discussed at the recent DLC conference and of which GPO officials seem interested in pursuing as part of their distributed preservation plan.
The authentication session is archived on the GPO OPAL site if you would like to learn more.