Conference Notes and Proceedings
There are many meetings and trainings in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) sponsored by the Government Printing Office (GPO). Most of these events are open to the public provided they register for the event. Because many librarians can't make these events, GPO makes efforts to inform the depository community by publishing proceedings in their publication Administrative Notes.
While commendable and necessary, the Administrative Notes proceedings suffer from two significant problems: they can take quite awhile to come out, and they are issued from the perspective of GPO alone. FGI wants to change that by providing faster and more diverse coverage of FDLP related events from YOU, the meeting attendees. See our invitation for details.
Below are the events for which we are providing coverage. If you attended the event, feel free to contribute your take on the event in the comments section.
If you plan to attend any future FDLP events and are interested in contributing notes or multimedia (audio, video) of public events, please drop us a line at the "talk to us" link below.
Continue readingGPO’s Public-Private Partnership good for libraries or citizens?
GPO is looking for private partnership in its publishing services. GPO states that "The goal is to propose, design, and execute a new model for a publications sales and distribution operation on revenue sharing basis." more... It seems like it is explicitly 'print and tangible' which means part of the question should be, why are they agressively promoting sales of these while cutting back on depository distribution??? It seems to verify our charges in the paper that trying to sell information conflicts with free distribution -- even in the print world, now! GPO is offering to provide for "the use of its repository of press optimized pdf files for POD production of publications." They never offered them to depostories, did they? Here are some questions that come to mind: Does anyone know anything about gpo's use of ONIX records? Is this a new thing? Is this parallel to or different from MARC? Don't we pay for marc, but bookstores get onix free? Continue reading
GPO essential titles survey
Survey to Identify Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper or Other Tangible Format The Government Printing Office (GPO) seems to be hearing librarians' footsteps. In an effort to seem responsive to the FDLP community, GPO recently released a survey to "identify items that should be added to the "list of Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper Format." GPO requests that the survey be completed by March 18 so that they may compile the data and bring the results to the Depository Library Council (DLC) meeting in April. We'd love to hear your comments on the survey. Please post a comment here (they can be anonymous). We will bring these comments to DLC to share with the entire community. Continue reading
Freedom of Information Far From Free
Freedom of Information Far From Free, OMB Watch, 2/07/2005. The Justice Department has responded to the People for the American Way(PFAW)'s FOIA request, "all records related to the decision to seal the records of immigrants detained in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks will cost nearly $400,000." Continue reading
FBI is fighting in court to limit document searches
FBI is fighting in court to limit extensive searches for electronic documents requested under Freedom of Information Act. If FBI wins, "people could have a diminished chance of getting documents from the nation's most famous law enforcement agency, open records experts said." FBI Fights for Limited Document Searches Continue reading
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