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Librarian for Huxley College, Canadian Studies, Government Information, and Maps

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Librarian for Huxley College, Canadian Studies, Government Information, and Maps

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Library and Information Science

Government information and Maps

When Women Didn't Count: The Chronic Mismeasure and Marginalization ...

Robert Lopresti

Erroneous government-generated "data" is more problematic than it would appear. This book demonstrates how women's history has consistently been hidden ...

Robert Lopresti

Sal Caetano is a happy man. He’s the brains behind a New Jersey Mafia family and he expects to be ...

Shanks on Crime

Robert Lopresti

Shanks on Crime contains thirteen comic stories about Leopold Longshanks, a mystery writer. He just wants to be left alone ...

Such A Killing Crime

Robert Lopresti

Such a Killing Crime is set in Greenwich Village, 1963. It is the height of the folk music revival, and ...

Thurber on Crime

James Thurber and Robert Lopresti

Thurber on Crime, conceived and edited by Robert Lopresti, contains all of James Thurber's stories, nonfiction, and amazing illustrations on ...

Disaster Preparedness: Theft, Vandalism, & Arson

Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications (2018)

Robert Lopresti, Hallie Pritchett and Dan Barkley

As part of the Federal Depository Library Program Academy three librarians discuss disasters which occurred at their universities.

When Women Didn't Count: The Chronic Mismeasure and Marginalization ...

Western Libraries Reading Series (2018)

Robert Lopresti

Western Libraries government information librarian Robert Lopresti gave a talk about his recent book “When Women Didn't Count, the Chronic ...

Using Government Data to Write a Book about Government Data

Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications (2018)

Robert Lopresti

This webinar illustrates how an experienced Government information librarian used public and private resources to write a book about Government ...

When Women Didn't Count: Women as Criminals

Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications (2017)

Robert Lopresti

Robert Lopresti. When Women Didn't Count: Women as Criminals. Robert Lopresti speaks to a class at the University of Washington ...

When Women Didn't Count: Gaps in Federal Statistics

Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications (2017)

Robert Lopresti

Robert Lopresti discusses his new book, When Women Didn't Count, which shows how women have been hidden and misrepresented in ...

Articles (7)

Introducing Fifth Graders to Government Publications

Federal Depository Library Program (2012)

When you think of publicizing Government publications, chances are fifth graders aren’t the audience you have in mind. Nonetheless for ...

Lessons from a Theft

Federal Depository Library Program (2011)

Western Washington University has almost half a million state, Federal, and Canadian documents. In February 2006, we suffered the theft ...

How Overdue Books Caused the Civil War

American Libraries (2011)

Did southern congressmen swipe books from the Library of Congress in order to start a library in the Confederacy?

'Reckless and Unwarranted Inferences': The US House Library Scandal of ...

Library & Information History (2011)

Robert Lopresti and August A. Imholtz

One hundred and fifty years ago, months before Lincoln was sworn in, an article in the New York Daily Times ...

Citation Accuracy in Environmental Science Journals

Scientometrics (2010)

Robert Lopresti

Citations in five leading environmental science journals were examined for accuracy. 24.41% of the 2,650 citations checked were found to ...

The Availability Of U.S. Government Depository Publications On The ...

Journal of Government Information (2002)

Robert Lopresti and Marcia Gorin

In order to explore the prevalence of federal government information on the World Wide Web, two random samples were taken ...

Analogous Reference Tools Produced by the U.S. and Canadian ...

Government Publications Review (1991)

Robert Lopresti

This guide lists a number of U.S. government publications frequently used as reference tools in libraries and compares them to ...

Contribution to Book

Chapter 07 - Government Sources

The Research Process: Strategies for Undergraduate Students (2016)

Robert Lopresti

Learn about government documents, and how they contribute to the research process.