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Some "Actual" Government Information Questions

Perkins loan cancellation for service in low-income schools
solved by a webpac catalog search to latest online directory

Maine transportation budget statistics, current and historical.
solved by Maine budget annual reports in bookstacks and Maine pamphlets

"I went to the Lewiston public library and they have the Maine Statutes, but I want the federal laws on easements"

"I need a report on violence in the schools put out in the 1980"s by the National Center for Educational Resources."

Student writing senior thesis needs 2 reports done in 1974 and 1976 by the Civil Rights Commission on the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the shooting of FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

Student researcher needs census data at the county level for 26 states including Maine for 12 variables.

"I want to see Title 15, Sec. 1302 and 1342 and any other federal laws about chain letters"

Economics class with 40 students used current and older Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.

19 year old British citizen emailed for Small Business Administration information/publications about expanding his web site business into this country.


Page author: Sandi Groleau and Renee Phelan
Date: 6/30/00


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