GPO dives into digital future
Submitted by acope on Wed, 2007-05-09 13:04.
From an article entitled GPO dives into digital future and Begins testing automated management system by: Joab Jackson, GCN (Government Computer News) Staff Writer (http://www.gcn.com).
Quoting the article:
The Government Printing Office is ready to test the ambitious Future Digital System, a content management system designed to handle the many documents GPO publishes and posts for the rest of government.
The program’s goal is to digitize nearly every federal document published since the birth of the country. People can then search, view and download documents via a Web portal.
Historically, federal agencies would submit publications, and GPO would print for both the public and libraries. Although agencies will continue to submit publications, GPO will now work to disseminate the information electronically and in print.
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GPO five year projection in 2004
It was on Sunday April 18, 2004 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm The Depository Library Council in St. Louis discussed the draft plan for the "Collection of Last Resort". In it two predictions were made:
1."....It will take three to five years to assemble the tangible Collection and digitize the 2.2 million titles (60 million pages) in the Collection.
2. "It is estimated that the depository library community and others will make an initial investment of $50 million to digitize legacy collection print materials...."
I am thankful for all the new PURLs but I look forward to seeing digitized copies of government studies done before 1994. One rumor I am trying to track down is that the president required from the fifteen agencies represented in the executive cabinet from 1974 to 1978, to publish reports projecting needs and services needed from the government agencies in the year 2000.
Hopefully GPO will create and share a systematic plan for prioritizing the most recent government studies and reports (starting from 1999 and working backwards) that can be of use now for longitude studies rather than digitizing without a plan or a search for complete or related series.
Perhaps government document librarians can present a schedule for digitizing to share with GPO. One suggestion is to focus on the 568 agencies that have SuDoc stems.
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