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Official Documents by and about GPO and FDLP
Documents here are listed in chronological order, newest at the top.
- The Federal Government Information Environment of the 21st Century: Towards a Vision Statement and Plan of Action for Federal Depository Libraries. Discussion Paper Prepared by the Depository Library Council. September 2005 (PDF)
- GPO FDLP Statistics Compiled by ALA GODORT for discussion (June 22, 2005) (PDF). Compiled by John Stevenson, GODORT Chair.
- Update for ALA June 2005 (PDF). Statistics and information for GODORT Update at the 2005 ALA Annual Conference.
- ID 73: "Harvesting Federal Digital Publications for GPO's Information Dissemination (ID) Programs." This policy governs both manual and automated harvesting of publications from Federal agency web sites for inclusion in the Federal Depository Library and National Bibliography Programs. Continue reading
OMB report to Congress on citizen access to govt info
The Office of Management and Budget has just released their "Section 213 of the E-Government Act Report to Congress: Organizations Complementing Federal Agency Information Dissemination Programs" (April 15, 2005). Lots of good information and statistics on the various ways that government information is disseminated to citizens (FDLP, Community Technology Centers, NARA research rooms etc). One thing that caught my eye was appendix 1 and the disparity between numbers of FDL's and public libraries and the populations being served. For instance, in CA, there are 92 FDL's and 179 public library systems, but each one serves on average almost 125,000 people. Contrast that with Maine, where 11 FDL's and 273 (yes 273!) public library systems serve 4,500 citizens. Read on! [Thanks to Herrick Heitman for posting to govdoc-l and beSpacific for originally calling it to our Continue reading
Bureau of Reclamation commandeers two 61-year-old technical books on Shasta dam
According to a story in the Sacramento Bee (Sam Stanton, 11/21/04), The federal Bureau of Reclamation recently went to a used book store in Redding, CA to "collect two 61-year-old technical books on the dam that the bureau wants out of public view." This is a chapter in the Federal Government's continuing overzealous efforts to limit access to information out of obtuse security concerns. If this were a one-time happening, it could be ignored. However, there is a disturbing pattern of our government restricting the amount of information available to the public, recalling documents from federal depositories and restricting Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Continue reading
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