Federal depository program at the crossroads: The library administrator's perspective

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-259

  Heisser, David C R ^a  

^a Daniel Library   (United States)

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EID: 0033474966     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0740-624X(99)80026-4     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Robert Gellman. "Disintermediation and the internet," Government Information Quarterly, 13 (1996): 1- 5.
2. st century?" Journal of Government Information, 23 (1996): 383-386.
3. Susan M. Ryan, "Square peg in a round hole; electronic information and the federal depository library program," Journal of Government Information, 24 ( 1997): 369.
4. John A. Shuler, "Electronic Public Information and Libraries: Why We Won't Need Government Document Librarians in the Next Century," address at the South Carolina Library Association Annual Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC, November 12, 1997; communication from John A. Shuler, November 11, 1998.
5. Th Congress Fails to Enact Title 44 Reforms; and Goals for Revising U. S. C. Title 44 to Enhance Public Access to Federal Government Information." Available: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/GODORT/iawgpage.html (October 16, 1998);
6. Mary Alice Baish. "Washington report," Documenta to the People, 26 (4) (December, 1998): 5-8.
7. Peter Hernon & John A. Shuler, "The depository library program: Another component of the access puzzle shifting to electronic formats," in Federal Information Policies in the 1990s: Views and Perspectives, edited by Peter Hernon, Charles R. McClure, & Harold C. Relyea (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1996), p. 274.
8. Susan M. Ryan, Downloading Democracy: Government Information in An Electronic Age (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., 1996), p. 28.
9. The questions were: • What is your perception of where the FDLP is headed? How do you envision the government information services that your library will offer to the public in the foreseeable future? • What is your assessment of the impact on your library's budget and allocation of costs likely to result from public service requirements and guidelines issued by the GPO and the information needs and expectations of the public? How do you plan to meet these costs? • Please discuss any tradeoffs that you may have to make within your library in order to meet depository equipment and public service standards. • Please comment on the specifications for public workstations, especially any that you consider problematic. • Please comment on the public service guidelines for information in electronic formats, especially any that you consider problematic. • What problems have you encountered with government CD-ROMs, and how are you planning to handle these materials? • Have you carried out-or are you planning to carry out-any reorganization in your library in order to meet public service (or other) government information goals? If you have reorganized, what is your assessment of the results? • Some predict that nearly all federal government information will soon be distributed via the Internet. What is your view of this? Assuming it were so. what would be the implications for the FDLP and for your library? • Why be (or remain) a federal depository library today? • Are there any circumstances that would or might lead you to drop-or consider dropping-depository status?
10. Nationwide the breakdown of nearly 1,400 depositories includes approximately 21 % public libraries, 20% private academic, 34% public academic, 11% academic law libraries, and 14% other: Daniel Blazek, "General characteristics of private academe and public U. S. Federal depository libraries," Journal of Government Information, 24 (1997): 163.
11. The texts discussed in interviews had been published on the GovDoc-L List and on the Superintendent of Documents Web site, and subsequently in the GPO's Administrative Notes.
12. Administrative Notes; Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program, 19, no. 8 (June 15, 1998): 4-5.
13. Administrative Notes. 19 (11) (15 September 1998): 6-8.
14. These had earlier been published in successive drafts as "Service Issues/guidelines for Government Information in the Electronic Environment and Depository Libraries."
15. Study to Identify Measures Necessary for A Successful Transition to a More Electronic Federal Depository Library Program, As Required by Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996, Public Law 104-53: Report to Congress (Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1996), p. E-23.
16. "Recommended minimum technical guidelines for federal depository libraries, revised january 1995," Administrative Notes, 16 (17) (December 15, 1995): 19.
17. Administrative Notes, 17 (7) (May 15, 1996): 6-8.
18. Administrative Notes, 19 (7) (May 15, 1998): 15-16;
19. U. S. Government Printing Office, Depository Services Update, April 1998 (distributed at the 1998 Depository Library Council and Conference, Arlington, VA).
20. Administrative Notes, 18 (12) (September 15, 1997): 8-15.
21. Administrative Notes, 19 (11) (September 15, 1998): 5.
22. Robert E.. Dugan & Ellen M. Dodsworth, "Costing out a depository library: What free information?" Government Information Quarterly, 11 (1994): 261-284.
23. Carol Turner, "Costs and benefits of running a documents collection," in Management of Government Information Resources in Libraries, edited by Diane H. Smith (Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1993), pp. 213-221.
24. The CD-ROM explosion has been discussed on e-mail lists, in meetings, and in a number of perceptive studies, notably: Robert E. Dugan & Anthony Cipriano, "Making it happen in a depository library: Those pesky cd-roms," Government Information Quarterly, 10 (1993): 341-355;
25. Ryan, Downloading Democracy, pp. 61-78.
26. Pertinent literature is reviewed in Stuart L. Frazer, Kathryn W. Boone, & Vernon A. McCart, "Merging government information and the reference department: A team-based approach," Journal of Government Information, 24 (1997): 94-95.
27. Communication from Gil Baldwin, Chief, Library Division, Library Programs Service. U.S. Government Printing Office, November 3, 1998.
28. Daniel Blazek, "Private academe and public depositories: Access and promotion," Journal of Government Information, 24 (1997): 286-287, 293-295.
29. U. S. Government Printing Office, Managing the FDLP Electronic Collection: A Policy and Planning Document. Available: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/ecplan.html (October 1, 1998).
30. "FDLP internet use policy guidelines," Administrative Notes, 20 (January 15, 1999): 1-2.
31. Programs and prescriptions for restructuring the FDLP are discussed in: Peter Hernon & Charles R. McClure, Public Access to Government Information: Issues, Trends, and Strategies (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1988), pp. 373-388;
32. Jack Sulzer, "U. S. Depository libraries in reality and myth: A framework for a future government information program," Journal of Government Information, 23 (1996): 307-325.
33. Shuler, "Electronic Public Information and Libraries."
34. Programs and prescriptions for restructuring the FDLP are discussed in: Peter Hernon & Charles R. McClure, Public Access to Government Information: Issues, Trends, and Strategies (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1988), pp. 373-388; Jack Sulzer, "U. S. Depository libraries in reality and myth: A framework for a future government information program," Journal of Government Information, 23 (1996): 307-325. See also John A. Shuler, "Civic librarianship: Possible new role for depository libraries in the next century," Journal of Government Information, 23 (1996): 421 ff. See also John A. Shuler, "Civic librarianship: Possible new role for depository libraries in the next century," Journal of Government Information, 23 (1996): 421 ff.