Fall 2006 Depository Library Council Meeting October 22-25, 2006

Official proceedings from the Government Printing Office posted 11/3/2006.

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SUNDAY OCT. 22

• 9:30 New Attendees Orientation
• 1:00 Plenary Session: Public Printer


James Staub’s notes
Virginia Rigby’s notes

• 2:30 Library of the Year Award Presentation
• 4:00 Council Session: Keynote Speaker, José-Marie Griffiths

MONDAY OCT. 23

• 8:30 Plenary Session: Superintendent of Documents, Operational, and GPO Agency Updates
• 10:30 Plenary Session: Panel Discussion with Program Management Office Directors, Master Integrator & Program Management Team
• 1:30 Council Session: Web Harvesting
• 1:30 Government Documents and Blogs: One Library’s Perspective (1:30-2:15)/Historical Data on the Hispanic Population in the U.S. Census – A Case Study (2:15-3:00)
• 1:30 Serial Set
• 1:30 Pre and Post Fire Recovery: What you can do before and after a fire strikes your library (1:30-2:15)/Ben’s Guide: A train-the-trainer’s program for reaching out to school librarians and teachers (2:15-3:00)
• 3:30 Council Session: Immigrants and Federal Depository Libraries

Virginia Rigby’s notes

• 3:30 Web-Based Military Newspapers in War: Providing Soldiers’ Perspectives on Military Developments (3:30-4:15)/Depository Library Access to Online Resources from Library Home Pages: Using the Depository Logo on the “Front Door” (4:15-5:00)
• 3:30 Increasing Access to Electronic Documents as well as Older Print Materials – A Tale of Two Projects
• 3:30 CD-ROM Migration

TUESDAY OCT. 24

• 8:30 Council Session: Vision Document
• 8:30 Agency Update: Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
• 8:30 Access: Security & Reference Merge
• 8:30 GPO Operational Open Forum
• 10:30 Council Session: Cataloging and Metadata Initiatives at GPO
• 10:30 Agency Update: STAT-USA
• 10:30 Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Transitioning Depository Collections
• 10:30 GPO Online Services Open Forum

Virginia Rigby’s notes

• 1:30 Council Session: Access Assessment and Marketing
• 1:30 Agency Update: U.S. Copyright Office
• 1:30 Managing Tangible Collections in an Electronic Environment

Virginia Rigby’s notes

• 1:30 Open Forum: CGP/ILS (Catalog of U.S. Government Publications/Integrated Library System)
• 3:30 I Want…YoURLs! Practical Ways for Teachers and School Librarians to Incorporate Government Information Resources into Classroom Curriculum
• 3:30 Agency Update: FirstGov (3:30-4:15)/Agency Update: U.S. Department of Education (4:15-5:00)
• 3:30 Virtual Reference
• 3:30 GPO Operational Open Forum
• 6:00 Recognition of Service for Judith C. Russell: Presentation

WEDNESDAY OCT. 25

• 8:30 Council Session: Regional/Selective Issues
• 8:30 Using IT and Team Teaching to Promote Government Information
• 8:30 Documents Data Miner 2 and Collection Development
• 10:30 Plenary Council Session: Digital Distribution
  
  PDF scan of GPO’s “Digital distribution to depository libraries: exploring the issues
  Herrick Heitmann’s summary
  Virginia Rigby’s summary

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