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Information sharing and the National Plan

(Background here: http://freegovinfo.info/node/10285) At the 2015 Depository Library Council meeting on October 20th, Mary Alice Baish, Superintendent of Documents, informed the depository library community that in July, GPO had formally requested permission from the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) to allow Regionals to discard documents in tangible formats that have been retained for seven years […]

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One year later…what’s happening with Regionals and discards?

In April 2014, GPO presented a draft policy (also known as an “SOD” or “Superintendent of Documents Public Policy Statement”) that would create a mechanism for Regional depository libraries to request permission to substitute specified tangible holdings for authenticated electronic holdings in FDsys. FGI has already responded in detail to this proposal (see “Why GPO’s […]

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Existing Regional Depository Library Models

There have been questions lately about shared regional depositories. Below is a table from the GPO Time for Change? document. Yellow indicates shared regionals within one state, and orange indicates one regional serving multiple states or areas. The same table is available as a PDF in the link below.

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GPO Relases Draft Report on Regionals

Taking another step towards the larger discussion, GPO announced the release of its "Regional Depository Libraries in the 21st Century: A Preliminary Assessment", was delivered to the JCP and is now available on the FDLP Desktop. Add to your reading list as we enter this season of national library conferences. Remember, a depository library program would be a terrible thing to waste.... Continue reading

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