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Created: October 18, 2003
Latest Update: October 18, 2003
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Issues on Agency Funding and Agendae

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, October 2003.
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Use the following set of links to see how you can locate information from the Internet. Use Castro's article to answer the following questions:

Find Law Link to U.S. Federal Resources.

Find Law List of government agencies and resources to locate them. Link to Federal boards and Commissions.
• U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
• News of the U.S. National Commission on Ligbrairies and Information Science
• Bush fails to see what libraries are for James E. Casto is associate editor of The Herald-Dispatch.

• Backup

Use the following set of links to see how you can locate information from the Internet. Use Castro's article to answer the following questions:

1. Is the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science an agency?

2. What's the range of it's annual budget?

3. What's the agency's mission?

4. What was proposed for the 2003 budget by the Bush administration?

5. What happened to the agency's budget? Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee from Martha B. Gould on FY 2003 Appropriations Bill (S. 2766)

6. What does this tell you about the climate of agency operations?

   Consider that appropriations are always subject to budget difficulties, and note what the above information tells you about how much the elected officials seem to know about agency operations. Note that Martha Gould makes a big deal about what each of the related agencies do.