How to vote in every state. Thanks VlogBrothers!
The VlogBrothers Hank and John Green have completed a massive project for the public good. They’ve created short videos explaining how to vote in every state — from registration to voter ID laws to absentee ballots to casting your vote! Find your state at https://www.youtube.com/c/howtovoteineverystate and pass it along to all your friends, family and […]
Rare & Endangered Government Publications committee (REGP) panel discussion at ALA Annual: GPO’s National Plan for Access to U.S. Govt Information
At the 2016 ALA Annual Conference, held in Orlando in late June, GODORT’s Rare & Endangered Government Publications committee hosted a panel discussion about GPO’s National Plan for Access to U.S. Government Information. The discussion responded to four questions: How can depositories ensure preservation of their tangible collections while still providing access for users?< What […]
Analysis of the Regional Discard Policy: What you need to know about implementation
Now that GPO is testing the implementation of implementing the Regional Discard Policy, it is time to finally get answers to the important questions that GPO has not addressed over the last two years. Although we have asked many questions about this policy, our concerns boil down to one simple question: Will FDLP — and […]
Update on Questions about GPO’s Regional Discard Policy
In December of last year, sixteen librarians wrote an Open Letter to GPO regarding the Regional Discard Policy in which we asked twelve questions about the approved version of the Regional Discard Policy. Now that GPO has released several new “informational resources” about progress of the “testing phase” (now referred to as “implementation phase one”) […]
“Flexibility” and the collaborative FDLP
August 10, 2016 / Leave a comment
There’s something that has been sticking in my craw for quite some time. That something is the term “flexibility” that has been used as a bludgeon by regional FDLP libraries to push the Government Publishing Office (GPO) to create its potentially disastrous regional discard policy. Over the last 5 years at least, some FDLP librarians […]
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