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Government Documents - Federal: Events and webinars

Upcoming Webinars

Orientation to Congress.gov

Thursday
June 12, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT  

Join bibliographic and research instruction librarian Barbara Bavis and Chief of the Office of External Relations in the Law Library Robert Brammer for an Introduction to Congress.gov webinar. While the focus of the session will be searching legislation and the Congressional member information attached to the legislation, the new features of Congress.gov will be highlighted.

"The American Revolution: Transatlantic Resources in the Library of Congress Collections."

Friday July 25, 2025

Time: 2:00 p.m.– 3:00 p.m. (ET)

Speaker: Clinton J. Drake, Reference Librarian, History and Genealogy Section, Main Reading Room, Library of Congress 

Description: This presentation will focus on resources originally created outside of the United States related to the American Revolution. We will begin with a brief overview of the Library of Congress--its history, research centers, collections, research guides—followed by an exploration of select published and manuscript materials as a portal into the complexity of the period.

Registration confirmation information:

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Training Resources/ Recorded Webinars

 

Recorded webinars

 

ALA

Sacred Librarianship, Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Practice

"Indigenous Engagement at the State Library, Whose History?" 

"Transforming Public African libraries into spectacular spaces for Multi-voices: Towards an indigenous-centric approach to service"

"Creating Respectful Relationships: A Good Way to Move Forward".

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Tools and Resources Webinar Series

Free webinars typically held the third Wednesday of every month from 3:00-4:00 PM (ET). 

"EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) hosts this monthly public webinar series to translate EPA research and share research resources and information that are useful, practical/applied and available to meet stakeholders' research needs. In addition, the EPA Tools and Resources Training Webinar Series provides in-depth overviews and step-by-step tutorials on popular EPA science-based models and tools."

FDLP Academy Training Repository

Title
We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We’re in the Public Record: Federal Government Documents on the LGBTQ Movement: 2023 Update
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Institutional Repository (IR) Implementing Public Access

 

HELP! Accidental Government Information Librarian

Help I'm and Accidental Government Information Librarian

The Government Documents Round Table welcomes you to a series of webinars designed to help us all do better reference work by increasing our familiarity with government information resources, and by discovering the best strategies for navigating them.  These sessions will be recorded and made available after the live sessions on our The Help! Webinars YouTube Channel.

 

Library of Congress

Watch a Recording of Our Webinar “Locating Congressionally Mandated Reports”

National Archives

Records Management Training Videos and Webinars

NOAA

National Marine Sanctuaries 

"The National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar Series provides educators, students, and the interested public with educational and scientific expertise, resources and training to support ocean and climate literacy. This series generally targets formal and informal educators that are engaging students (elementary through college) in formal classroom settings, as well as members of the community in informal educational venues (e.g. after school programs, science centers, aquariums, etc.). However, the series is open to anyone interested in the topics listed below."

United State Census Bureau

USGS

National Map Training
"The National Map (TNM) is the collection of mapping products and services produced by the USGS National Geospatial Program. Understanding the complexity and richness of TNM is now made easier for geospatial data users, scientists, and the public, with this series of video lessons that show how to use TNM services, applications, interfaces, data, and tools. Topics include but are not limited to: using 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) data, the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), TNM viewers and applications, topographic maps, 3DEP collaboration tools, and EarthExplorer."