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To provide your own take on the Disaster Recovery for Depositories session, please either comment below, or send your notes and/or multimedia to dnlcornwall@alaska.net. Please let FGI know whether we can use your name and affiliation.

The following notes were contributed by Herrick Heitman of the Washington State Library.

All interpretations of documents and comments made are those of the notetaker and do not reflect on their home institution. All mistakes are those of the notetaker and/or FGI. Please feel free to post corrections. Moderator: Marianne Ryan—University of Maryland Presenters: Gwen Sinclair—University of Hawai’i, Manoa Dan Barkley—University of New Mexico Jan Swanbeck—for University of West Florida Janet Scheitle—Government Printing Office (These notes reflect the lessons I took from this session. They’re not in a linear “she said…and then she said…” style.) This was a good presentation that covered different scales of disaster: the burst pipes at the University of New Mexico damaged one building; the flash flood at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa caused damage throughout the campus and nearby neighborhood; and Hurricane Ivan struck the University of West Florida when that entire region that was dealing with the aftermath of previous hurricanes. Note also that some disasters are unexpected (burst pipes) and some are foreseeable (hurricanes). Prepare for the unexpected and take full advantage of any warning you may have. Continue reading →

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Thanks to Arlene Weible, we now have a summary of the large academic libraries breakout of the "tangibles" discussion at the Spring 2005 Depository Library Council meeting. We welcome other summaries, whether or not they agree with Arlene's. Go ahead and send those to dnlcornwall@alaska.net. We'll post yours as well. The more people contribute, the better picture we'll have. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Thanks also belong to Hui Hua Chua of Michigan State University for letting us know that Akamai/Disaster Recovery was not discussed at Tuesday's GPO Access Open Forum.

If you attended the Spring 2005 DLC, we are still looking for the very first summary of the following sessions:

• Depository 101 (Sunday April 17)
• Government Information Quarterly (Sunday April 17)
• Regionals' Meeting (Monday April 18) NOTE: If this meeting was attended by regionals only and meant to be a closed meeting, please drop us a line so we don't post proceedings from a private meeting. We're only interested in the public record. Continue reading →

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To provide your own take on the Large Academic Libraries breakout session on "future tangible distribution", please either comment below, or send your notes and/or multimedia to dnlcornwall@alaska.net. Please let FGI know whether we can use your name and affiliation.

The following notes were contributed by Arlene Weible of the University of North Texas library.

All interpretations of documents and comments made are those of the notetaker and do not reflect on their home institution. All mistakes are those of the notetaker and/or FGI. Please feel free to post corrections.

1. Users of depository libraries have differing needs for tangible documents.
   • What is unique about your library’s users and how to those characteristics create a requirement for the use of tangible documents? What information needs do tangible documents meet for your users that are not met through electronic information.
   • Many land grant universities have to serve the public, so economically disadvantaged users have trouble using electronic only publications due to inadequate Internet access and prohibitive printing costs. Continue reading →

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Thanks to Sharon Partridge and others, we've added even more content to our grassroots proceedings of the Spring 2005 Depository Library Council Meetings. As of today you will find new information on:

Tuesday's Plenary Session, National Collection Development session, and several subsessions of Tuesday's GPO Access Open Forum: PKI, RSS Feeds from GPO, and LC's new all-electronic LCSH list.

Wednesday's session on Authentication and Versioning Control

The depository community's picture of this meeting will become clearer and more complete as more reports are received from attending librarians. If you attended DLC and think we made a mistake, let us know in the comments field. We listen! Mere hours after Bill Sudduth let us know that he, and not a GPO staffer read a letter from Ridley Kessler, I corrected my blog highlighting the DLC open forum, and we put his name as reader in Sharon's notes, which did not name the reader. That's faster correction than you'll get in printed proceedings. Continue reading →

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To provide your own take on the Authentication & Version Control Session, please either comment below or send your notes and/or multimedia to dnlcornwall@alaska.net. Please let FGI know if we can use your name and affiliation.

The following notes were contributed by Sharon M. Partridge of the Jefferson County Public Library in Lakewood CO. Any hyperlinks were added by FGI staff.

All interpretations of documents and comments made are my own and do not reflect on my institution. These were typed on the day noted and subsequent days may have changed things. All mistakes are mine and feel free to post corrections.

The two programs I attended [on Wednesday] were on Authentication and Versioning

Authentication - There was so much confusion from Council because they hadn't been able to attend the demo of the PKI software that not much was accomplished until GPO could repeat the highlights of the demo. When asked how finely we want the authentication to appear, the answer was as finely as possible. Tables, graphs and chapters were considered a minimum. There was a lot of discussion about the difference between Authentic and Official in the certification. We felt that if we were having trouble, the patrons would have more and the definitions needed to be clearer and something explicit was needed to show which was the higher level of verification. Continue reading →

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