Working Groups, Committees, Associations, Task Forces, Coalitions: What Have We Been Doing for the Past Few Years?
A Brief Annotated Chronology
Spring 1996 Federal Depository Conference
Julia F. Wallace, University of Minnesota
Proceedings of the 5th Annual Federal Depository Library Conference, April
15-18, 1996. Washington, DC: Library Programs Service, U.S. G.P.O., 1996.
(GP 3.30/3:996), p.97-104.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/proceedings/proceed.html
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Association of Research Libraries. Task Force on Government Information in Electronic Format. Technology & U.S. Government Information Policies: Catalysts for New Partnerships. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 1987. (Task Force Report No. 3)1988 While not a library community activity, the publication of the OTA's report on federal information still serves as a landmark in the discussion of the transition into the electronic age. Many library associations and librarians contributed to the report.
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment. Informing the Nation: Federal Information Dissemination in an Electronic Age (OTA-CIT-396). Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1988. (Y 3.T 22/2:2 In 3/9)1991 The reorganized Depository Library Council initiated discussions of GPO's electronic future and the structure of the federal depository library program. These discussions continued through several Council meetings, resulting in the report listed under 1993 below.
1992 Gary Cornwell, incoming chair of Depository Library Council, and Ridley Kessler, Regional Librarian for North Carolina, responded to questions from John Merritt, staff director of the Joint Committee on Printing, by volunteering to prepare a document detailing the major problems confronting the FDLP and offering possible solutions. They enlisted the assistance of several colleagues, and prepared a report which was presented to the JCP in June. The report was expanded and published the following year.
Cornwell, Gary, Ridley R. Kessler, Duncan Aldrich, Thomas K. Andersen, Stephen M. Hayes, Jack Sulzer, and Susan Tulis. "Problems and Issues Affecting the U.S. Depository Library Program and the GPO: The Librarians' Manifesto." Government Publications Review 20, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 121-140.A November letter to depository libraries from Superintendent of Documents Wayne Kelley outlined a major budget shortfall and proposed program cuts.
1993 Attendees at the ALA Midwinter Conference in January heard challenges from the Joint Committee on Printing and the chair of the Depository Library Council, to take an immediate and active role in shaping a new depository library program.
In April, a small group of depository librarians assembled just before the Federal Depository Conference to get the discussion started.
"Dupont Circle Group: Discussion Draft," April 1993. The Dupont Circle Reporter: An Electronic Informal Newsletter for the Federal Depository Community. 1993.Council continued discussions of the GPO electronic future, and issued a draft for discussion in June 1993. After community input, the report was issued in September.
( http://www.arl.org/info/frn/gov/dupont.html)
Depository Library Council to the Public Printer (U.S.). "Alternatives for Restructuring the Depository Library Program: A Report to the Superintendent of Documents and the Public Printer from the Depository Library Council." September 1993. Administrative Notes 16, no. 16 (December 5, 1995): 23-59.In October, over 150 librarians and others traveled to Chicago to deliberate the future of Federal government information and the depository library program.
(URL: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/council/alternat.html)
"Reinventing Access to Federal Government Information: Report of the Chicago Conference on the Future of Federal Government Information, Chicago, Illinois, October 29-31, 1993." Documents to the People 21, no. 4 (December 1993): 234-246; Administrative Notes 14, no. 24 (November 30, 1993): 11-29.1995 A Coalition of Many Associations (COMA) released a two-page framework, an update and distillation of issues from the Chicago conference.
(URL: http://www.arl.org/info/frn/gov/chicago.html )
"Enhanced Library Access and Dissemination of Federal Government Information: A Framework for Future Discussion." Working Document endorsed by the American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Special Libraries Association, 1995. American Association of Law Libraries Newsletter 27, no. 1 (September 1995): 14-15.The American Library Association convened a two-day forum of representatives from a broad group of organizations to address policy issues and develop models for federal responsibilities for information dissemination and for a reinvented depository library program.
"Model for 'New Universe' of Federal Information Access and Dissemination: Preliminary Results of Forum on Government Information Policy, July 20-21, 1995, Sponsored by American Library Association." ALAWON, ALA Washington Office Newsline 4, no. 77 (August 9, 1995).
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