Guide of the Week: Housing
Submitted by dcornwall on Sun, 2008-10-05 09:56.
Housing has been an issue both this year in general and as an election issue. So this week I'm highlighting another Bert Chapman guide that he allowed the ALA GODORT Handout Exchange Wiki to link to:
* Housing (Bert Chapman, Purdue University, 2001) Last updated 6/18/2008
In his introduction, Bert notes:
Housing affects our lives in many ways. We buy and sell homes, rent apartments, and invest in residential and commercial properties. Government agencies produce many publications on various aspects of housing. These publications can be found in various Purdue Libraries with the HSSE and MEL libraries having the largest collections. Examples of Library Catalog subject headings you can use to search for government documents on housing include:
- Government Sale of Real Property United States
- Home Ownership United States
- Housing Policy United States
- Housing Surveys United States
- Rental Housing Law and Legislation United States
He then identifies a number of resources including:
- A Chronology of Housing Legislation & Selected Executive Actions 1892-2003 HSSE DOC Y 4.F 49/20:108-D
- American Housing Survey (various cities) HSSE DOC C 3.215:H-170/
- Census of Construction Industries MEL REF, MEL, & STOR C 3.245/
- Mortgage Insurance Companies of America/Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Reports MEL REF FR 1.63/
- Germany Federal Ministry of Transport, Building, & Housing (In German)
Check out the rest of the guide. Then see what other topics are available. And if you are a documents librarian with a guide, please add your guide to the wiki!
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wide ranging coverage of guides!
Hi Daniel. Thanks for continuing to highlight new guides on the GODORT handout exchange. Looking through the list of guides that you've highlighted so far, I'm struck by the range of topics covered. I would highly recommend that anyone who's put together a guide on *any* topic put that guide up on the GODORT wiki. I noticed specifically that there's no guide for elections so that would be a good one to put up -- you hear me Annelise at UCSD libraries? Your Worldwide elections guide is a good one and should be on the wiki!
An election guide
Hi James,
Actually, there is a guide on elections under the political science section:
Campaign and Election Sources (Univ. of California--Berkeley, 1999) Last updated 4/4/2006
It's a great guide. It hasn't shown up in highlights mostly because there are so many good guides to highlight. Why? Because docs librarians rock! That's why!
Agree with you that Annelise should put up that global election guide. As should any other docs librarian with a guide to share.
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"And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them." -- Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote.
Guides added
The Worldwide Elections Guide (originally created by James) is now linked under Elections on the GODORT Handout Exchange. Added a link for our Latin American Elections guide, too.
yay elections guide!
thanks Annelise. sorry to make you think about documents on the weekend :-)
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