Dizzymslizzy writes "With prompting from the Sunlight Foundation's Open House Project, the US Library of order announced today that its online database THOMAS will now make insistent URLs, known as judicial handles, for bill documents. As Free patronage Info says, 'it is unequivocally nice to be able to link to act with a retentive link! But it would be much better if one could click to create a link rather than next a 600-word sort of how to link on another page.' Still, this is a definite step forward for the Library of club and for domination transparency. From THOMAS: 'Legislative Handles are a new round-the-clock URL service for creating links to parliamentary details from the THOMAS web site (http://thomas.loc.gov). With a simple syntax, congressional Handles make it easy to type in parliamentarian links to bibliographies, mold guides, emails, blogs, or web pages. judicial Handles, for instance, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.110hconres196, are a proper way to cite legislation.'

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