Submit Your Depository Success Stories Here
Tell us your stories!! FGI is collecting stories on how librarians have helped people to locate government information AND how researchers, scholars, journalists and students use government information for their work. We are hoping that this will become a knowledge base of depository library success stories, providing real life examples of how the Federal Depository Library Program helps citizens all over the U.S.
Please be as thorough as possible and include relevant information -- item titles, agencies, locating tools, libraries or web sites where you found the information. Your stories may be used for educational and/or advocacy purposes. Please let us know if you'd prefer us NOT to use your name. All information on this site is covered by a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" license.
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Display state name in headline of success stories
I love the success stories. Would you consider displaying the state name (just the 2-letter code would be enough) in the headline for each story, so that as the list grows, it's easy for readers to pick out stories from their states? Thanks for considering.
"Depository" success stories
I'm an ex-GovDoc librarian now working in a non-depository public library. I help many, many more people find, access, and use government information than I ever did working in a depository library. Some are fun, like helping local school kids with history fair projects. Some are very frustrating, like helping a functionally illiterate, completely computer-illiterate person filling out an online government form -- especially one that requires the person to have an email account!
Thanks for sharing your skills
Hey Cindy,
Thanks for visiting FGI! And thanks for using your documents skills in a non-depository library. It is an irony that only 20% of depository libraries are public libraries, but many regular citizens looking for gov info come to public libraries regardless of depository status.
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"And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them." -- Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote.
Success Story?
I don't know if this is a "success story" but I have to give a tour of our library for our first year students. This year I did a display that showed how documents could be used in many of the majors (if not all) here on campus. Apparently I am more enthusiastic than what I thought because when pointing out our "wonderful government documents collection" and the display cases I had a student apply to fill a student assistant position in our office later in the semester. When I asked her why she wanted to work in the library particularly with government documents, she said it was my enthusiasm for them when giving her the tour of the library that made her want to apply and work in our office!
Success Story
Hi Sarah, I was very excited to read your success story on FGI because come this fall I will be teaching classes on gov.doc. If you can give me some pointers on how you prepared for this task I would really appreciate it. Anything that you have to offer will help me tremendously with my class. I have no ideal how to get started. We have the materials in our library but teaching a class about gov.doc. for the first time is kind of scary. So any feedback that you can offer me will really help. Hopefully, through my class students will want to work in the library as well. Thank you.
I welcome any feedback from anyone else reading this reply.
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