From my all time favorite resource, Docuticker and ResourceShelf.com. Here is information on Inauguration day for all of you wanting to go or use this as a learning experience for your children and grandchildren:

Inauguration Day 2009
Official site for information about the January 20, 2009 inaugural ceremonies. Events, history, how to get tickets, how to sign your band up to play in the inaugural parade, photos, and more. Sign up for the inaugural e-mail list to receive updates.

Items of special interest include:
+ What Happens on Inauguration Day
+ Chronology of inaugural ceremonies for all presidents
+ Facts and Firsts
+ “I Do Solemnly Swear”: A Half Century of Inaugural Images (from the U.S. Senate Curator

Source: Joint Congressional Committee on Inauguration Ceremonies

Next a resource so you can stay up to date on the transition.

The Transition and How YOU can watch it in real time!

Resource of the Week: Change Is Good
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor

For the first time, this means a new presidential transition website. Simple but elegant and still under construction — Change.gov. At the top left, you’ll see a countdown, in days, till the January 20, 2009 inauguration.

“The Newsroom” is basically a blog of press releases from the new administration that sits front and center on the site. You’ll also find biographies of Barack Obama, the President-Elect, and Joe Biden, the Vice President-Elect. You can watch Obama’s election victory speech in Grant Park, in Chicago.

There are a variety of links at the bottom of the page under the headings Newsroom, Learn, American Moment, America Serves, and About This Site. There’s also a link you can click to apply for a job in the new administration. Fill out the brief online form and you’ll receive, via e-mail, a link to a more extensive online form. (Note: These are non-career positions, not civil service
Among the links at the bottom of the page — and also along the right side — you’ll find a link to something called the GSA Transition Directory:

The Presidential Transition Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-293) authorizes the General Services Administration (GSA) to develop a transition directory in consultation with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Act provides that the transition directory “shall be a compilation of Federal publications and materials with supplementary materials developed by the Administrator that provides information on the officers, organization, and statutory and administrative authorities, functions, duties, responsibilities, and mission of each department and agency.”

Senate Report 106-348 clarifies that the directory is intended to “assist in navigating the many responsibilities that fall on a new administration” that is “confronted by an overwhelming amount of material.”

Obviously, there’s not much information here yet, but if you click around, you will find some interesting governmental odds and ends:

* A Survivor’s Guide for Presidential Nominees, from The Brookings Institution.
* Links to relevant sections of the U.S. Government Manual (2008-09 Edition).
* A link to the Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2009
* A link to An Overview of the Executive Branch Ethics Program, from the United States Office of Government Ethics
* A link to a PDF document: Preparing Presidential Appointees for Leadership: A History (PDF; 157 KB)
* What will the Federal government pay to relocate a new Appointee and his/her family? Look here.
* Information about Freedom of Information
And the new administration wants to hear from you:
Tell us your story and the issues that matter most to you. Share with us your concerns and hopes – the policies you want to see carried out in the next four years.
The White House Transition Project is an interesting resource:

Since 1997, the White House Transition Project has combined the efforts of scholars, universities, and policy institutions to smooth out the American presidential transition. WHTP bridges the gaps between the partisan forces engaged in settling elections and the decision processes essential to governing by providing non-partisan information about the challenges of the American presidential transition and the strategies for overcoming those challenges. It provides these and other resources to presidential campaigns, to the president-elect, and to the new administration. These resources include three separate report series providing a White House institutional memory, perspectives on past transitions, and advanced research covering special aspects of transitions and governing. The WHTP also provides unique analysis of the appointments process and a clearinghouse on other transition resources.

There is way too much to list here but visit the site for yourself! www.change.gov