Hello to our friends at Bloglines!/New grassroots proceedings/Luddites?
Updated 12:20pm to reflect comment below While checking my feeds at Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com), I see that the FGI feed at http://freegovinfo.info/blog/feed has 17 subscribers. So that leaves 16 of you that like us so much that you've plugged us into a news aggregator. If you're reading us strictly through Bloglines or another news aggregator, then you've missed out on our New additions to the grassroots proceedings for the Spring 2005 Depository Library Conference at http://freegovinfo.info/spring05_DLC. We've got new coverage of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday events, including what looks to be a fairly complete summary of the DLC Open Forum where Bill Sudduth read a two page letter from a retired (but well respected) librarian that appeared to criticize depository librarians for being luddites. It's a little hard to tell without the full document. Hopefully it will be included in GPO's official proceedings to be published hopefully in late May. Continue reading
Monday April 18th – DLC Open Forum
updated Sat Apr 23, 2005 to reflect Bill Sudduth's statement that he read Ridley Kessler's letter to the DLC forum audience.
To provide your own take on Monday's DLC Open Forum, 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 Sharon M. Partridge of the Jefferson County Public Library in Lakewood CO.
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 libraries wrote questions to give to GPO. Twenty-five of them were asked and either answered or noted yesterday, in half an hour. There were still some that we didn't have time for and there were new questions from today so there were over seventy questions. The questions were entered into the computer as they were received so they could be displayed and T C Evans read the questions unless the person submitting it wanted to ask it themselves. This was a vast improvement over the traditional open mike format. People did have a way to ask a follow-up question if they needed one. Continue reading
Monday April 18th – Future Tangibles Public Library Breakout
To provide your own take on the Public 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 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.
We had at least 20 public librarians and ranged in size from Las Cruses to Chicago. Our problems went from computers that don't work to serving eight million people.
Q: What is unique about your library's users and how do these 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? Continue reading
Monday April 18th – Future Tangible Distribution to Depository Libraries
To provide your own take on Future Tangible Distribution to Depository Libraries, 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 Sharon M. Partridge of the Jefferson County Public Library in Lakewood CO.
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.
Future Tangible Distribution to Depository Libraries There will be extensive reports from GPO about the discussions but I'm reporting the things I think most relevant to other public libraries.
The morning was devoted to the discussion of the revised SOD 71, Dissemination/Distribution Policy for the Federal Depository Library Program.
The transition to an electronic depository is nearly complete but the questions of fugitive documents, untested harvesters, gray literature, needed hardware, and authentification are still unanswered. There were issues about the organization of data. Continue reading
Sunday April 18th – Plenary Session? Mayor’s Welcome
To provide your own take on the Sunday Plenary Session, please either comment below or send your notes and/or multimedia to dnlcornwall@alaska.net.
The following notes were contributed by Sharon M. Partridge of the Jefferson County Public Library in Lakewood CO.
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 mayor of Rio Rancho gave a stunning presentation on his city, founded in 1981 from a collection of Intel employees in the northwestern outskirts of Albuquerque. It currently has a population of 65,000 with growth at 5% per annum. The population is high tech. It was created with the infrastructure to be a completely wired (underground) and WiFi. The city government focuses on only three primary needs: creating jobs, excellent education and public safety. Continue reading