Monday April 18th – Future Tangible Distribution to Depository Libraries
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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
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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
Sunday April 18th – GPO Update
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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.
Judy Russell looked forward to a "lively discussion." Electronic is the "default switch" for format; unless it has been deemed an exception, that will be the format. We got a draft copy of two revised documents. One is the ID 71 (formerly SOD 71), Dissemination/Distribution Policy for the Federal Depository Library Program. The changes reflect the new names of departments (Information Dissemination rather than LPS) and allowing the conversion of both present documents and the retrospective collection from tangible format to electronic. The second document is ID 72, Withdrawal of Federal Information Products from Information Dissemination Collection and Distribution Programs (recalls of information already in FDLP). They seem to have removed the requirement to pass on Sales customers' names except in national security cases, noted that there will be a record of removal with the maintenance of the bibliographic record and annotation about the withdrawal, and broadened the concept of an emergency withdrawal by eliminating the language about national security. Continue reading
Tuesday April 19th – Plenary Session
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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.
Things I forgot from yesterday. The Essential Titles list is viewed as a dynamic document. It doesn't mean that everything missing from the list will never be seen in paper again. It means that something that isn't on the list now can be added in the future. GPO was also asked to negotiate with any agency that decides to quit producing one of the Essential Titles in paper. We asked that GPO tell the agency that the FDLP considers this title to be so important that we would like them to reconsider such a decision. Continue reading
Sen. Santorum tries to make free weather disappear
According to the Palm Beach Post, Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference introduced a bill that would prohibit the National Weather Service from providing forecasts and other weather information that COULD be provided by the private sector. Critics say that as written, it is unclear whether the NWS could provide hurricane forecasts, although the bill does exempt forecasts that would save lives. Sen. Santorum's state of Pennsylvania is also home to Accuweather Forecasts. The bill is S 786 and is called National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005. Currently it has no cosponsors and we at FGI really hope it stays that way. We're with Harvard University technical consultant Scott Bradner, whom the Post quoted as saying, "I believe I've paid for that data once. ... I don't want to have to pay for it again." Continue reading