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 Subject: New Year's Resolutions

 Greetings, GOVDOC-L Friends:
    Now that the flurry of mail about the GPO's proposed budget cuts has
 begun to subside, I'd like to suggest a few things all GPO depositories
 should be sure to put on their lists of New Year's Resolutions:

 *1) Remember the survey of problem item numbers which was in AdNotes 10/31.
     I suspect a number of us put that aside while filling out the budget
     survey, but it is pertinent. We ask for more specific targeting of docs
     we really want, and one way to do that is make selection more specific.
     This is a good way to target those terrible items with stuff you don't
     want, but have to take in order to get the few series you do. The survey
     is supposed to be in on January 4, but I've been assured by GPO that
     they will continue to accept them for at least another week, maybe more.
     They do need the input - here's a chance for positive contributions.

 *2) Be SURE that every member of Congress has had at least one letter from a
     depository in his/her district. Use the beginning of a new Congress as
     an excuse to introduce the depositories to new members, and to remind
     returning ones of the service you provide to their constituents. Contact
     with district offices can be productive - tell them how you can help
     them find information, and what kinds of questions they can refer to
     you. Some of us provide maps with depositories marked - use your
     imagination! Then, after you have extolled the virtues of the depository
     system, you can inform them of how the GPO is funded, and the importance
     of continuing funding to an informed democracy.

 *3) Remember to send to Sheila McGarr at GPO your suggestions for depository
     titles or categories which SHOULD be stocked for claims. They have not had
     a lot of input yet. The Minnesota group met and put together the
     following list - you might have other thoughts: all periodical issues, all
    publications from Census, all annual reports, all materials in the sales
     program, all materials from the BLS (some might say all statistical pubs),
     all CD-ROMs. The request for your input was in Wayne Kelley's letter of
     November 18.

 *4) Make plans to attend the Depository Library Conference in April, as well
     as ALA. There will be lots of opportunities at these meetings to help
     think about the future of the depository system, federal information,
     new technologies, etc. Be an active player if you can.

    Well, now I have to go and scribble these things on my already-long list
 of things to accomplish in 1993. I hope to see many of you in Denver for
 ALA Midwinter. Incidentally, any depository librarians going to the
 inauguration??

 Happy New Year.

 Julie Wallace, U of MN (a Regional now being BURIED in tract maps!!)

 Julia F. Wallace, Gov. Pubs. Library      Voice: (612) 626-7520
 409 Wilson Library, U of MN                 FAX: (612) 626-9353
 309 19th Avenue South                     Bitnet: J-WALL@UMINN1
 Minneapolis, MN 55455         Internet: J-WALL@vm1.spcs.umn.edu
      New Year's Resolutions
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