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GIS Charge
To develop policy recommendations and other strategies for the Committee on Legislation on various aspects of government information policy and procedures vital to the well-being of library services and the American public, including the creation, organization, dissemination, access, use, preservation of and permanent public access to public information, and assist the Committee on Legislation with appropriate communications strategies.
Meeting at Annual: Discussion of the future of the Federal Depository Library Program
What Will the Future of the FDLP Look Like[1] This speech was presented by Richard Davis, Acting Superintendent of Documents Director, Library Services and Content Management at the 2008 American Library Association's Annual Confrence in Anaheim, California
Present: Nancy Allen, Mary Alice Baish, Dan Barkley, Lesley Boughton, Stephanie Braunstein, Francis Buckley, Kirsten Clark, Beth Clausen, Ric Davis, Jeff Elliott, Cynthia Etkin, Valerie Glenn, Gretchen Gould, Lisa Harris, Robin Haun-Mohammed, Bernadine Abbott Hoduski, Rebecca Hyde, Crystal Lentz, Mary Mallory, Kevin McClure, Jessica McGilvray, Michele McKnelly, Catherine Morse, Rebecca Ohm, Erminio D’Onofrio, Mary Webb Prophet, Kevin Reynolds, Judy Russell, Ellen Simmons, Jesse Silva, Bill Sleeman, Susan Tulis, Robert Walter, Arlene Weible, Sinai Wood
Issues identified – which ones we agree on, which ones we don’t.
"FLIP CHART NOTES 6/28 meeting on the future of the FDLP" GIS/Godort Legislation committee meeting on the Future of the FDLP
Focusing on areas of agreement.
Discussion needed on points such
- Regional Depository Library status is a “sacred trust”
- Need to identify changes, that might lead to changes in Title 44
- Change to get what our users need
- Get more agencies to provide information and make it available online
- If it is not changed libraries will drop out
- Need an inventory of all collection, who are the experts in doing such at thing?
- Need to breech state lines
- Incentive to remain in the program are needed
- Training is needed for those outside of the FDLP
- GPO needs more funds
- Change language
- Emphasis on citizen users
- Change the discard process from a “negative” to a “positive”
- Need a back up national documents library
- Perhaps from/via LC
- GPO should take over the management of the discards process … with the thoughts building a national collection
- Change the program from a state based program to a national program where each library can contribute as appropriate
- Use technology better for Needs and Offers
- Increase education fro users and stakeholders
- Need to know there is a discussion that will lead to actions
- What can be done without changing Title 44
- Need better ways to describe these collections
- Need to have an inventory
- No time to do one
- Noted the expense of retro cataloging
- Several libraries have fully cataloged their collections, this is a great jumping off point
- Need collaborative ways to share cataloging responsibilities
- Leadership needed for new collaborations/partnerships
- Encourages increasing appropriations
- Change funding to target some of these problems; redirecting funds might mean there is not need to open T 44 There needs to be a serious commitment to digitization and cataloging
- Think this through, need to know what the change would be
- More structural work before we go into making changes
- Sweeping revisions to T44 are had but possible; but must be planned carefully; shorter term changes through steps without changing T44
- Concerns about permanent public access
- What should GPO stop doing?
- Need additional community input
- More help with arching e.g this fall question about harvesting
- Group needs to look at one model addressing many issues, (maybe not regional)
'- 2 concerns Management of tangible collections Digital content of the future (and now) How do we balance these 2 types of collections'''
- Don’t need the same people working on both issues (tangible/digital)
- Need in-depth follow up studies on more specifics
- Need to determine which libraries are strongest in what areas, to access strength
- Took a the snap shot of the FDLs
- GREAT interest in the idea of cataloging and a national INVENTORYY
- Digital/tangible/philosophical/ nuts /bolts concerns
- Challenges /differences
- The inventory is critical and could be done as a cooperative program, must be done
- Consider what could be done w/ regional inventory
- What should be done to ensure best copies are retained
- Condition s part of an inventory
- Inventory regional collections
Off the chart comments
White… shy
• Need to bring back the idea of a light archive
• I question the true collaborative nature of the community when it comes to doing work for the community rather than the individual library. This especially concerns me with regard to the preservation of born digital materials.
• Why not re-conceptualize the Regional system into one that is based on “ info centers” that specialize in the provision of services
• Promote state projects to create complete inventories of regional collections. Incentive…get rid of the cumbersome discard process
• Are tangible collections essential for the provision of access to gov’t info to the public? Where is the research that says yes?
•I heard 2 good suggestions: o Push GPO to change the disposal rules in response to regional inventory Somehow get the inventory done-have selectives help and then allow selectives to do their own disposal process by checking the regional catalog.
o Push GPP to somehow authenticate or allow libraries to authenticate-the digitization of tangibles, so that all libraries could use those digital copes as substitutions and get rid of their tangibles.—an aside, as GPO authenticates any digital copy, let it serve as a substitute.
Yellow, dissenting opinions/ negative comments
• Don’t talk about regionals or selectives ...Move beyond this to thinking about FDLs organization that does not depend on geography
• Need to stop responding to these insane timelines set forth by the GPO and put forth our own view of what is to be done, then start doing it if it is within the law. We do not need them to lead, because they cannot.
• A lot can be accomplished w/o opening T44 need to try this first
• We don’t need to know that something will happen. That is not what we are about.
• The comment bout not thinking that everything is useful makes me uncomfortable because it is so subjective!! Maybe something that she thinks is unimportant is the one item I’m looking for to write an article, or…?
Next steps:
'Split the work into two groups' Each working group needs to address the T44 issue. What changes can be done with out opening T 44? What changes require opening T 44
1. legacy
2. digital
information of interest to digital working group
http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/records/legislativerecords/authentic.htm Preserving State Government Digital Information: White Paper and Resources on Authentication] Minnesota State Archives
Is ALA interested pursuing changes to 44 USC 19?
ALA Resolutions
RESOLUTION REGARDING DEPOSITORY LIBRARIES
RESOLUTION ON THE FUTURE OF THE FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM
RESOLUTION ON THE FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM FOR THE 104TH CONGRESS
RESOLUTION ON TRIBAL COLLEGE LIBRARY MEMBERSHIP IN THE FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM
Required Reading
ALA Principles on Government Information
About the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) ... "The mission of the FDLP is to disseminate information products from all three branches of the Government to over 1,250 libraries nationwide at no cost. Libraries that have been designated as Federal depositories maintain these information products as part of their existing collections and are responsible for assuring that the public has free access to the material provided by the FDLP."
Suggested Reading
Arrigo, P. "The reinvention of the FDLP: A paradigm shift from product provider to service provider." Journal of Government Information 30.5-6 (2004):684-709.
Depository libraries: hearings before the Subcommittee on the Library of the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, on S. 2029 and H. R. 8141, to revise the laws relating to depository libraries. March 15 and 16, 1962. Courtesy of the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Collections.
Jacobs, J.A., J.R. Jacobs, and S. Yeo. "Government information in the digital age: The once and future federal depository library program." Journal of academic librarianship 31.3 (2005):198-208.
Knowledge Will Forever Govern: A Vision Statement for Federal Depository Libraries In The 21st Century. Final Version - September 29, 2006. Prepared By The Depository Library Council to the Public Printer.
Priebe, T., A. Welch, and M. MacGilvray. "The US Government Printing Office's initiatives or the Federal Depository Library Program to set the stage for the 21st century." Government Information Quarterly 25.1 (2008):48-56.
Selby, B. "Age of Aquarius—The FDLP in the 21st century." Government Information Quarterly. 25.1,(2008):38-47.
Shuler, J.A. "Partnerships and promises: the history and future of library and US Government information." The Bottom Line 15.2 (2002):60-63.
Regional Depository issues
Regional Depository Libraries in the 21st Century: A Time for Change? June 2, 2008 http://www.fdlp.gov/repository/regional-depositories/regional-depository-libraries-in-the-21st-century-a-time-for-change-/download.html The JCP has now asked GPO to make it available as a draft and to seek comments from the depository community. Comments may be submitted until June 15, 2008.
Guidelines for Establishing Shared Regional Depository Libraries May 2007 revised August 2007
GPO request to JCP for interstate joint regionals Sept 2007
CRS memo Nov 2007
JPC letter to the GPOFeb 2008
GPO Study of Regional Depositories
Excerpt from Ric Davis's speech at Spring DLC meeting, April 2008
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