Legislative Histories and Keeping Records
My library recently subscribed to ProQuest Legislative Insights. I was adding the database link and the description to our website. The description has the following statements:
I look at our goals and outcomes, and I can't tell if they were arbitrarily created, or had a thought process behind them. I keep terrible meeting notes, especially if I'm not the designated meeting recorder. Even conversations I've been a part of, like our most recent assessment plan, I cannot remember our reasoning or thought behind some of the outcomes. I'm sure we had some. I'm sure we discussed it. But I can't tell you what they are.
Confession: As an information professional, sometimes I'm lousy at organizing information.
ProQuest Legislative Insights, you've inspired me. In my digital files, I'm going to try to keep old versions, and label them as such, and justifications, rationales, etc. related to information literacy program planning and assessment. The hard thing about job turnovers is the institutional knowledge that gets lost. I would love to discover a footnote for every document that could tell me about it's creation. In the meantime, I'm just piecing together what I can.
Each history includes the full text of the public law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications that provide background material to aid in the understanding of issues related to the making of the law.This made me wish we had files of the history of each document we've created.
I look at our goals and outcomes, and I can't tell if they were arbitrarily created, or had a thought process behind them. I keep terrible meeting notes, especially if I'm not the designated meeting recorder. Even conversations I've been a part of, like our most recent assessment plan, I cannot remember our reasoning or thought behind some of the outcomes. I'm sure we had some. I'm sure we discussed it. But I can't tell you what they are.
Confession: As an information professional, sometimes I'm lousy at organizing information.
ProQuest Legislative Insights, you've inspired me. In my digital files, I'm going to try to keep old versions, and label them as such, and justifications, rationales, etc. related to information literacy program planning and assessment. The hard thing about job turnovers is the institutional knowledge that gets lost. I would love to discover a footnote for every document that could tell me about it's creation. In the meantime, I'm just piecing together what I can.
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