Tuesday April 19th – National Collection
To provide your own take on the National Collection Development 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.
National Collection - This may be housed in multiple sites within and without the government but it will be one collection. GPO has already begun acquiring documents, including a complete Serial Set. They are getting two copies of everything printed including things that are not in FDLP (these might include internal documents and classified documents). They may begin mining from NARA's digital holdings. Preservation efforts will meet all of the recognized standards for the various formats. The criteria to be an alternative site are that they be at least 600 miles apart, not in flood zone or along an earthquake fault. When asked if they will try to get the holdings of NTIS, they said some of the collection is not in scope but some of it is and that they'd take the NTIS collection if NTIS was unable to keep it. The ILS may show holdings in depositories but this would mean we'd have to let GPO know if anything was weeded or lost. LC and GPO have reached an agreement on what their varied responsibilities are. LC does copyrighted material while GPO does government material. NARA will allow GPO to add things to the dark archive as needed. Continue reading
Boston Globe: “public loses information”
In war's name, public loses information By Charlie Savage, Boston Globe, April 24, 2005. (If that link doesn't work, Try this one sent in from an anonymous commenter. Thanks Anonymous commenter!)
This is an excellent update on the how public information is being increasingly concealed from the public. The article makes clear the difference between the system for classifying information as "Confidential," "Secret," or "Top Secret," and the "50 to 60 loosely defined security designations that can be imposed by officials as low-ranking as government clerks."
The article lists many examples of loss of access to public information including:
- topographic chart
- phone book
- environmental information
- statistical report
- planning document Continue reading
DLC spring, 2005 handouts
Here are three more handouts from Spring DLC. They include:
- Future Digital System executive summary of phase 3
- ID71: Dissemination/distribution policy for the Federal Depository Library Program
- ID72: Withdrawal of Federal information products from GPO's information dissemination programs Continue reading
question about paper documents
At the GODORT session last monday evening, a comment from a law librarian about documents in paper got me thinking. Since Law Libraries obviously have a greater need -- not to mention a legal necessity -- for official government documents in paper format, wouldn't it make more sense to survey law libraries to gather an "essential titles" list? That list could then be supplemented with other titles as necessary. I wonder how many law library essential paper titles would overlap with the needs of other libraries? Comments? Continue reading
Presentation of the new Electronic Depository Library Manual
PDF of the slides of Janet Scheitle's presentation at DLC, April 20, 2005. Scheitle is the Director of the Office of Library Program Planning. The PDF is quite large. Please be patient as it downloads. Continue reading