ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES

U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS

LIBRARY AND STATUTORY DISTRIBUTION SERVICE

Vol, 2, No. 10 Ausust 1981

COUNCIL MEETING REMINDER

The meeting of the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer

will take place in Alexandria, Virginia, September 28-30, 1981.

There will also be an informal get-together on Sunday, September

27th at the meeting place, the lobby of Holiday Inn - Old Town,

5:30 P.M., for the first-time attenders , new Depository Librarians,

and all old hands, who will go out for dinner.

Rooms are available at the meeting site:

Holiday Inn - Old Town

480 King Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

PHONE: (703) 549-6080

(Single: $63.00 + tax; Double: $69.00 + tax)

Less expensive motels within ten to fifteen minutes walk are:

Econo Lodge Motel

700 North Washington Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

PHONE: (703) 836-5100

(Single: $30.95 + tax: Double: $38.95 + tax)

Quality Inn Towne

808 North Washington Street

Alexandria, VA 22514

PHONE: (703) 548-3500

(Single: $34.00 + tax; Double: $38.00 + tax)

Best Western - 01 de Colony Motor Lodge

1000 North Washington Street

Alexandria, VA 22413

PHONE: (703) 548-6300 (ask for Ms. Woody and special

GPO meeting rate which is: Single: $38.00 + tax;

Double: $45.00 + tax)

Make your reservations soon! -

SPRING COUNCIL MEETING

For those depository librarians who need to plan ahead, the date and place of

tne Spring meeting of the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer may

prove useful. Official meeting dates arc April 26-28, 1982, with some informal activity on the evening of Sunday, April -25th. The place will bo:

Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Arlington Street at Park Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02117, PHONE: (617) 426-2000.

REORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

GPO has received word that on June 17, 1981, that the Department of Agriculture has once again reorganized. The result is that most of the

offices affected by the 1978 reorganization are now back in existence,

with the same names and basic functions. The agencies in existence

prior to 1978 will retain the classes that were originally established

for them.

The offices primarily affected are the Economics and Statistics Service

(A 105.) and the Science and Education Administration (A 106.). ESS

is now the Economic Research Service (A 93.) and the Statistical

Reporting Service (A 92.). SEA has become the Agricultural Research

Service (A 77.), Cooperative Research Service (A 94.), The Extension

Service (A 43.), and the National Agricultural Library (A 17.).

The Food Safety and Quality Service, which was established in 1977, has

become the Food Safety and Inspection Service (class not yet established).

The commodity programs formally under FSQS will be taken over by the

Agricultural Marketing Service (A 88.). Also the Packers and Stockyards

Administration, which after 1978 became part of the Agricultural Marketing Service, is now again a separate office and will be classed (A 96.).

A new office, the Human Nutrition Information Service, was established

under the Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services. No class

has yet been established for it.

Name changes which will not affect classes include the World Food and

Agricultural Outlook and Situation Board (now the World Agricultural

Outlook Board), the Office of Consumer Affairs (Now the Office of the

Consumer Advisor), and the Office of Budget, Planning, and Evaluation

(now the Office of Budget and Program Analysis).

All classes for current titles which were in existence prior to 1978

will now be reactivated. The item numbers will remain the same. This

reorganization will not be reflected in the upcoming LIST OF CLASSES,

but will appear in subsequent issues. ***************************************************************

DEPOSITORY LIBRARY INSPECTOR RETIRES

The Government Printing Office's first full-time Depository Library Inspector,

Ms. Helen M. Holt, was feted on her final day, August 28th, at the Library

and Statutory Distribution Service in Alexandria, Virginia. She was presented

with a plaque by the Superintendent of Documents, Mr. Carl A. LaBarre, which

recognized her twenty-one years of service with the Federal government. Undoubtedly the most familiar single GPO employee to be personally met by

Depository Librarians, Ms. Holt has made over 1,000 visits to depositories

from Maine to Hawaii, and as far North as Alaska. She has flown more than

a million miles and driven over 100,000 miles during the course of her

inspection visits for GPO. She is moving to Illinois where she will be

closer to members of her family, and will reside at: 72 S llinman Street,

Aurora, Illinois 60S0S. *************************************************************** ****** *********