Administrative Notes 

Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program

Vol. 24, no. 13 GP 3.16/3-2:24/13 November 15, 2003 

HIGHLIGHTS

Depository

Library of the 

Year Award 1 

New Inspector 2 

2004 Interagency 

Seminar 3 

ERIC 7

Conference/Council

Remarks:

 Russell 7 

 Evans 13 

GPO Access 16 

Responses to

Recommendations 19 

Readers 

Exchange: 

Anniversary 21 

Biennial 

Survey 23

FDLP-L 23 

Public Printer Bruce James 

Presents Tulsa City-County 

Library 

With First Ever 

Depository Library of the Year 

Award

Forward thinking, superior customer service and Internet savvy: That is 

how a third of a million library users in Tulsa, Oklahoma describe their 

public library. Those reasons, paired with excellence in providing public 

access to government information through the U.S. Government Printing 

Office's (GPO) Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), is why the 

Tulsa City-County Library has been named the first ever Federal 

Depository Library of the Year. 

Public Printer of the United States Bruce James presented the award to the 

Tulsa City-County Library at the 2003 fall Federal Depository Library 

Conference, which was held October 19-22 in Arlington, Virginia. 

"On behalf of GPO's Superintendent of Documents Judith Russell and the 

rest of her team, I congratulate the Tulsa City-County Library for 

embracing new technology in its ongoing efforts to make public access to 

government information better accessible," said Public Printer James. 

"The library staff's commitment to utilizing the Internet and using outsideof-the-box techniques to better serve the needs of the public is 

commendable." 

The FDLP's annual four-day conference is the largest gathering of Federal 

Government documents librarians in the country and was an excellent 

opportunity to honor the winning library and its head government 

documents librarian, Suzanne Sears. "This award recognizes a passion to 

connect government information to customers when and how they want 

it," said Linda Saferite, Tulsa City-County Library's CEO. "While our 

collection is small, our passion to maximize the collection is great."
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Not only is the library moving forward by 

introducing innovative information access 

options, but also the paper collection is still 

maintained by staff and retrospective 

cataloging has increased the circulation of the 

collection. Outreach is a goal of the staff and 

a supply of free promotional materials is kept 

on display. The library also acts as a liaison 

for local community officials. 

Administered by the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), the FDLP partners 

with more than 1,250 libraries nationwide to 

provide local, no-fee public access to 

information produced by the Federal 

Government and distributed to the libraries 

by the GPO in print, microform, CD-ROM, 

and GPO's online information service, GPO 

Access <http://www.gpoaccess.gov>.

Public Printer Bruce James, left, and Superintendent of Documents Judy Russell,

right, present the Federal Depository Library of the Year award certificate to Tulsa 

City-County Library Director Linda Saferite and Government Documents Librarian 

Suzanne Sears.

New Library Inspector Appointed: 

Michele Worthington 

Michele Worthington recently joined the 

Library Programs Service as a depository 

library inspector. Ms. Worthington came to 

LPS from the National Library of Education, 

where she was the government documents 

coordinator and legislative librarian for the 

past two years. Prior to this, she worked for 

the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, 

New York. Ms. Worthington earned her 

M.L.I.S. and her undergraduate degree in 

Social Sciences and Anthropology from

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. 

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17th Annual Interagency Depository Seminar 

Announced for June 2004 

The 17th Annual Interagency Depository 

Seminar will be held in Washington, DC 

from June 2 – 9, 2004. The weeklong 

seminar will consist of an overview of 

various agencies' information products and 

activities as they relate to Federal depository 

libraries. The seminar is being presented by 

many Federal agencies, including: 

• Bureau of the Census 

• Library of Congress 

• Office of the Federal Register 

• Patent and Trademark Office 

• Government Printing Office 

• and more to be announced. 

At the Interagency Depository Seminar, 

representatives from Federal Government 

agencies showcase their products and 

services. The seminar consists of 

presentations that focus on the content of and 

access to these products and services, 

interspersed with tours and question and 

answer sessions. It offers the opportunity 

both to acquire information and to discuss 

and exchange ideas with colleagues, agency 

representatives, and Information 

Dissemination staff of the Government 

Printing Office. The intended audience is 

documents staff with three years or less of 

recent experience with Federal Government 

documents. Attendees with reference or 

public service responsibilities will find these 

sessions particularly useful. Attendance is 

limited to 60, so registration preference will 

be given to those outside the Washington, DC 

area and to those who have not previously 

attended the seminar. 

There is no charge for the seminar. However, 

librarians attending the seminar must cover 

their own travel and subsistence expenses, as 

no government funds are available for that 

purpose. 

Prospective attendees should complete the 

registration form and fax it to the Library 

Programs Service by March 29, 2004. 

Registrations will be confirmed immediately 

by e-mail, and registrants will receive an 

information packet by mail in mid-April 

2004. As there is usually a waiting list, a 

helpful hint is to submit the registration form

to reserve a place first, then try to obtain full 

or partial funding from your library 

administration later. If you wait until funding 

is assured, the limited slots for the seminar 

may be filled. 

If you have any questions about the seminar, 

please contact the Chief, Depository Services, 

by telephone on (202) 512-1119; by fax on 

(202) 512-1432; or by e-mail at <rhaunmohamed@gpo.gov>. 

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17th Annual Interagency Depository Seminar 

Preliminary Agenda 

Tuesday, June 1, 2004

There will be an informal get-together of 

seminar participants in the lobby of the River 

Inn at 6:00 p.m. Librarians will be able to 

meet some colleagues and Information 

Dissemination staff in an informal setting. 

Those who are interested may enjoy dining 

together in the area with available GPO staff. 

Wednesday, June 2 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

Information Dissemination staff will host the 

first day of the seminar. Staff will be 

available to answer questions about how GPO 

acquires, classifies, catalogs, and distributes 

and disseminates government information 

products in all media. There will be a tour of 

the lighted bins and an opportunity to 

network. 

Thursday, June 3 

FEDERAL REGISTER

The Office of the Federal Register (OFR), of 

the National Archives and Records 

Administration, will present this morning’s 

program on the Federal regulatory system. 

The workshop covers the rulemaking process, 

including the relationship between laws and 

regulations; the important elements of the 

Federal Register and the Code of Federal 

Regulations; using the finding aids of the 

Federal Register/CFR publication system; 

and an overview of electronic access to 

certain publications of the OFR. 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

In the afternoon, there will be a tour of the 

Library of Congress Jefferson Building, a 

presentation on the National Digital Library 

Learning Center, and a tour of the Serial and 

Government Publications Division. 

Friday, June 4

In the morning, representatives from four 

different Federal agencies will discuss their 

products, services and electronic initiatives. 

The participating agencies will be announced 

in spring 2004. 

GPO ACCESS

In the afternoon, GPO's Office of Electronic 

Information Dissemination Services will 

present GPO Access, emphasizing how to use 

it to search the Federal Register, 

Congressional Record, U.S. Code, 

Congressional bills, and other databases. 

Monday, June 7 

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

Staff of the Census Bureau will present 

product information for the 2000 Census, 

American Community Survey, American 

Factfinder, etc., and demonstrate other 

products on DVD or CD and the Census 

home page. Bureau staff will provide a 

variety of handouts and answer questions 

about the availability and uses of Census 

data. 

Tuesday, June 8

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

A full day workshop will cover the basics of 

intellectual property: patents, trademarks and 

copyrights, featuring speakers from the U.S. 

Patent and Trademark Office and the 

Copyright Office of the Library of Congress. 

Attendees will learn to differentiate between 

three types of Federal protection for 

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intellectual property and the methods by 

which this information is accessed by the 

public. Publications and search methods, 

where applicable, will also be discussed. 

Wednesday, June 9 

In the morning, agency representatives from 

additional Federal publishers will discuss 

their products, services, and electronic 

initiatives. 

The seminar will conclude at noon. 

Presentations during the seminar week will be 

held in the Carl Hayden Room of the main 

building of the Government Printing Office 

and at the Library of Congress. Presentations 

will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. and will last 

until 4:00 p.m., unless otherwise stated in a 

detailed program to be supplied to the 

registrants in late April 2004. All participants 

are expected to attend all presentations. 

ACCOMMODATIONS

A block of rooms has been reserved for 

seminar participants at The River Inn. The 

hotel is located in Foggy Bottom, at 924 25th

Street, NW, in Washington, DC. The hotel is 

two blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro 

Station (Orange/Blue Lines), and is close to 

such attractions as the Kennedy Center, the 

Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Veteran’s 

Memorial, Georgetown, and the White 

House. Attendees can take the Metro subway 

train from the Washington Reagan National 

Airport to the hotel as well as to Union 

Station, a block from GPO. The Library of 

Congress can be reached by Metro or by 

walking (about twenty minutes) from GPO. 

For information about the hotel, see its 

Website at <www.theriverinn.com>. 

For a map of the Washington, DC, Metro 

system, see <www.wmata.com/metrorail/ 

systemmap.cfm>. 

Rooms are available for the single room rate 

of $109.00, double room rate of $129.00, not 

including tax. Rooms are efficiency suites 

with queen-size bed, pullout sofa, and fully 

equipped kitchen. If you wish to reserve a 

room at The River Inn, you should call as 

soon as GPO confirms your seminar 

reservation. Hotel reservations at the River 

Inn must be made no later than April 30, 

2004. After that date, the River Inn does not 

guarantee room availability or the seminar 

rate. If you choose to make other hotel 

arrangements, be sure the hotel is near a 

Metro subway stop for ease of transportation 

to and from seminar sites. Parking at the 

hotel is $12.00 per day. 

To make reservations, call direct at 202-337-

7600 or toll-free at 800-424-2741. The fax 

number is 202-337-6520. Please tell the 

reservation clerk that you are attending the 

GPO Interagency Depository Seminar and 

quote the above room rate. If you are 

interested in sharing a room with another 

librarian attending the seminar, Robin HaunMohamed at LPS will try to match up 

roommates. You may contact her by 

telephone on 202-512-1119 or via email at 

<rhaun-mohamed@gpo.gov>. 
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INTERAGENCY SEMINAR REGISTRATION FORM

Register online:

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/tools/04interagency_reg.html 

or 

Fax to: Chief, Depository Services Register by: March 29, 2004

Library Programs Service (SLLD) 

 202-512-1432 

____ I would like to attend the June 2-June 9, 2004 Interagency Depository Seminar. 

____ I need lodging and will contact the hotel directly. 

____ I have not previously attended this GPO-sponsored seminar. 

____ I would like a CEU certificate (3.5 Continuing Education Units). 

Please type or print clearly:

Depository #:

Name: 

Institution Name: 

Library Name: 

Street Address: 

City, State, Zip Code + 4: 

Telephone (include area code): 

Internet E-mail Address: 

List Special Needs (if applicable): 

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ERIC Reports Now Available in GPO Access

In October 2002, the U.S. Department of 

Education discontinued distribution of 

microfiche of government-funded reports 

from the ERIC program to the Federal 

Depository Library Program (item 0466-A03, ED 1.310/2:), and began providing GPO 

with electronic versions of the reports. These 

reports are now available in GPO Access

<http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eric/index.html> 

as searchable PDF files, beginning with ED 

463411. They will continue to be cataloged 

for the Catalog of Government Publications 

as in the past. 

The ERIC program makes available a wide 

variety of research on topics in education. 

Not all reports in the ERIC program are 

eligible for distribution in the FDLP because 

they are not produced solely at government 

expense. 

The subset is approximately 10% of the total 

body of reports available from ERIC. The 

complete collection of ERIC reports is 

available from the ERIC program at 

<http://www.eric.ed.gov/>, a fee-based 

service of the Department of Education. 

For more information, contact George 

Barnum, Electronic Collection Manager, 

<gbarnum@gpo.gov>, 202-512-1114.

Information Dissemination Operations 

Remarks by 

Judy C. Russell 

Superintendent of Documents 

Depository Library Conference/Fall Council Meeting 

October 20, 2003 

Welcome! I am delighted to have you here 

with us to continue the dialog on the future of 

the Federal Depository Library Program

(FDLP) that we began at the Depository 

Library Council meeting in Reno in April. 

Many things have happened in the six short 

months since we gathered in Reno. 

I want to share a few of them with you before 

we begin our discussions. 

ACCELERATING TRANSITION TO AN

ELECTRONIC PROGRAM

At the Reno meeting, Bruce James estimated 

that in 5 years, or less, distribution of

publications to the Federal Depository 

Library Program (FDLP) will be 95% 

electronic. That may be conservative. 

His estimate was based in part on GPO’s 

projection that 60% of the new documents 

added to the FDLP during the year that just 

ended would be electronic online titles, 

available through GPO Access or by links to 
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electronic publications on agency or other 

Web sites. 

In fact, preliminary numbers for fiscal year 

2003 show that 68% of the new titles were 

electronic online titles. 

Over 24,000 new electronic titles were added, 

bringing the total number of titles on GPO 

Access to over 150,000 and the total number 

of titles linked from GPO Access to over 

100,000, so there are now over 250,000 titles 

in the FDLP electronic collection. 

At the same time that print is declining, 

publishing agencies and GPO are moving to 

replace microfiche copies of publications for 

inclusion in the program with electronic 

copies. (Microfiche represented 

approximately one-third of tangible products 

distributed last year.) 

We are planning to phase out GPO 

microfiche contracts as they come up for 

renewal. Increasingly we can find electronic 

counterparts for documents that GPO has 

traditionally converted to microfiche. Where 

we cannot find an electronic equivalent, GPO 

will digitize documents to create searchable 

electronic files for access and preservation. 

The trend is clear and the speed of our 

transformation is accelerating. 

SALES PROGRAM

At the same time, we have begun to address 

the reality of a GPO Sales Program with 

rapidly declining sales volume and revenue. 

In part as a result of increased access through 

the Internet, the overall volume of sales has 

dropped dramatically, from 24.3 million 

copies sold in FY 1993 to 4.4 million copies 

sold in FY 2002. Ten or 15 years ago we 

sold 35,000 subscriptions to the Federal 

Register; today we sell 2,500. At the same

time, we are now downloading over 4 million 

Federal Register documents each month from

GPO Access. Revenue has plummeted as a 

result of these changes, while costs have 

dropped less rapidly, resulting in losses that 

must be stopped. 

This spring we made the painful decision to 

close all of the GPO bookstores, other than 

the main bookstore in Washington. It was 

not an easy decision, but it was the right 

decision. The walk-in traffic in the 

bookstores has dwindled to a trickle. The 

public has already embraced online ordering 

of publications, as shown by the enormous 

popularity of Amazon.com. 

We project that 85% of our sales orders will 

come through the online bookstore by 2005. 

We will continue to offer Federal Express 

and other means to deliver urgently needed 

publications to remote customers overnight, 

but we will no longer rely on bricks and 

mortar bookstores to provide service to our 

sales customers. 

REORGANIZATION

We have also planned, and begun to 

implement, a reorganization of the GPO staff. 

GPO now has, for the first time, a Chief 

Information Officer and a Chief Human 

Capital Officer, as well as a new Chief

Financial Officer. I also have a new title, 

Managing Director of Information 

Dissemination, in addition to the traditional 

and legally established title of Superintendent 

of Documents. 

(My children have a popular map for tourists 

that has the GPO building labeled as 

Superintendent of Documents. That is no 

doubt intended to help people find the 

bookstore, but they find it very amusing that I 

am on the map and proudly show it to every 

visitor that we take sightseeing!) 

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As you know, we have also begun to 

reorganize the Superintendent of Documents 

staff to create an organization organized by 

function, not by source of funding. This is to 

reduce redundant operations and increase our 

efficiency and responsiveness. For example, 

we now create bibliographic records in the 

Sales Program and also in the Library 

Programs Service. In the new organization, 

we will create one bibliographic record and 

use it for multiple purposes. 

We have posted the four senior positions in 

the new organization: the directors of 

program development (which will handle 

new initiatives like digital signatures until 

they are ready to be handed off to an 

operational area), program planning and 

coordination (which will plan for the FDLP, 

the national bibliography and for our cost 

recovery programs), library and customer 

relations (which will include our contact 

center, marketing and training staff), and 

collections management (which will handle 

acquisitions, bibliographic services, and 

preservation, as well as storage and 

distribution). We hope to begin interviewing 

candidates next week and announce the 

appointments by mid-November (if not 

sooner). 

We have nearly completed the job 

descriptions for the ten positions that report 

to these four directors and hope to post those 

shortly. Other positions will follow as

quickly as we can get the position 

descriptions approved. We will post notices

to a variety of list servs as the positions are 

opened and we hope that some of you will 

consider coming to GPO to help us with our 

transformation. 

NEW INITIATIVES

I could spend hours talking with you about all 

of the initiatives that we are pursuing as we 

re-examine the mission of the Federal 

Depository Library Program and seek to 

ensure that there is a viable program for the 

next hundred years that acknowledges and 

utilizes new technologies to support 

democracy and inform our users. Since we 

don’t have time for a monologue of that 

length, I will highlight a few that I think will 

be of particular interest. Others will no doubt 

come up over the course of the meeting. 

Integrated Library System 

I know that many of you are interested in our 

progress on acquisition of the Integrated 

Library System (ILS). This project was 

started about two years ago, focused on 

meeting the needs of the FDLP and the 

Cataloging and Indexing Program, both 

managed by the Library Programs Service. I 

asked the ILS team to reexamine our 

requirements to make sure the ILS could 

meet the bibliographic requirements of the 

Sales Program and also potentially serve the 

metadata requirements of the rest of GPO, 

since the plant and printing procurement now 

expect to keep electronic print files for 

customer agencies and will need metadata to 

manage those files. 

During this time, the new CIO (Chief 

Information Officer) organization was 

established. As a major software and 

hardware investment, the ILS is now a joint 

initiative with the CIO, who will acquire and 

operate the system on our behalf. We have 

now made our recommendation to the CIO 

and are waiting for him to initiate the 

procurement. 

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University of Arizona Pilot Project 

The University of Arizona has completed the 

first full year of its pilot project to become

the first all electronic depository library 

program. They will present the details of

their project at 2:00 p.m. this afternoon, but I 

wanted to commend them on the success of 

the project and to let you know that GPO and 

the University of Arizona are continuing with 

the effort to systematically identify electronic 

equivalents of tangible items in the 

university’s profile. For the first time ever, 

GPO has hired two graduate students as “coop students” who will work part time on this 

project while they earn their MLS degrees at 

the University of Arizona. They are here 

with us today and I would like them to stand 

so you can see who they are. We are 

delighted that they are helping with this 

important project. 

Consultants 

We are also moving forward with our plans to 

hire “consultants” to work out in the 

community — to provide training and other 

services to depository libraries in a specific 

geographic area. We have three preliminary 

proposals, which we hope to make final 

shortly. They are in Michigan, Minnesota 

and one shared position, based in South 

Carolina, but serving North Carolina and 

Georgia as well. We have allocated 12 

positions in the new organization for

“consultants” and hope to fill them over the 

course of the year as additional proposals 

come in and are accepted. I encourage you to 

talk to others in your geographic area and to 

GPO staff if you are interested in having one 

of these positions established in your area. In 

keeping with my theme of “one size does not 

fit all,” we are encouraging proposals from

the community so that these positions can be 

tailored to the needs of the geographic area 

that they will serve. 

Legacy Collections 

One of the most encouraging things that has 

happened since April is the progress that has 

been made on the issue of managing our 

legacy collections. There are three related 

initiatives that I would like to share with you. 

One is the decision by GPO to establish a 

collection of last resort. We spent some time

at the regional librarians meeting this 

weekend discussing how this collection 

should be utilized, but at a minimum this will 

become, over time, a comprehensive 

collection of tangible and electronic titles that 

will backstop the regional collections. 

The second is a movement toward shared 

repositories or shared housing agreements 

that would allow two or more libraries to 

eliminate some of the redundancy between or 

among their collections. These initiatives, 

which are still in the early stages, will help us 

move toward a smaller number of 

comprehensive sets that can be more readily 

preserved. We are not going to preserve 

1280 sets of government documents. We are 

not going to preserve 53 sets. But we do 

need to decide as a community how many 

sets of tangible documents should be 

preserved and take the necessary steps to 

establish consolidated collections that are as 

comprehensive as possible, so we can 

actively preserve the materials. 

Third, and essential to the other two, is the 

decision by the Association of Research 

Libraries to collaborate with GPO, and 

ultimately with the entire library community, 

on a national digitization plan, so that we can 

coordinate our efforts to digitize a complete 

legacy collection of U.S. Government 

documents and make sure that the documents 

are available, in the public domain, for 

permanent public access. Libraries would 

digitize materials, based on established 

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priorities or local needs. GPO’s roles would 

be to coordinate the effort, assist in the 

establishment and coordination of standards, 

serve as a trusted repository for preservation 

and access (in addition to any other places 

that the materials might be held), certify and 

authenticate the electronic files, and ensure 

that there is appropriate cataloging and 

metadata for the items in the collection. 

GPO will seek funding in FY 2005 to 

perform OCR on digitized files and output 

XML tagged data that can be used for access 

and for print-on-demand. Thus, whatever 

OCR scanning is done by individual libraries, 

we can ensure that the preservation and 

access collection maintained by GPO is 

consistently tagged, making it a true 

collection, not just a random assortment of 

electronic files. 

This is an extremely shorthand description of 

a complex set of actions which together will 

help us preserve a reasonable number of 

copies of the tangible artifacts as well as to 

create and maintain a comprehensive, digital, 

public domain collection for preservation and 

access. The availability of these tangible and 

electronic collections will allow all 

depository libraries, including regional 

libraries, to manage their collections more 

effectively, substituting electronic copies for 

tangible copies — if they wish to do so. 

BREAKOUT GROUPS

Later this morning you will meet in breakout 

groups by library size and type. I urge you to 

use the breakout sessions for a couple of 

specific purposes — as well as for discussion 

of any other topics that may be of interest to 

you. 

First, we have just completed a survey to 

determine if there are additional “essential” 

titles that should be made available in print, 

not for the whole community, but for specific 

sizes or types of libraries. The survey results 

will be shared with you during the breakout 

session. We have already agreed to make the 

Supreme Court slip opinions available to law 

libraries in paper and are seeking to 

determine if there are other titles that should 

also be made available on a similar basis. 

This is part of our effort to make the program 

more responsive to the needs of specific 

needs of various types of libraries. How 

many of you were aware of the survey? How 

many of you recommended titles? The 

breakout sessions are your opportunity to 

participate if you have not done so already 

and to discuss your recommendations with 

other libraries if you have already submitted 

some. 

Second, as I already noted, we will shortly 

begin an organized and systematic effort to 

digitize our legacy collections. You need to 

consider the sets of material that have the 

highest priority for libraries of your size and 

type. Once we have input from a variety of 

sources, we can compare and consolidate the 

lists. Then we can seek partners for the initial 

digitization projects. 

Finally, I ask you to consider the services that 

GPO can offer to libraries of your size and 

type that have the greatest value to you – the 

“carrots” that we need to offer to you to make 

it desirable to remain in the program. Along 

with that I ask you to look at the “barnacles” 

that we should remove to make it easier to be 

a depository library. Which regulations or 

procedures are most cumbersome or 

burdensome? If you could change one thing, 

what would you change? Recognizing that we 

have to live within the law and within our 

resources, we will try to address the services 

that you need most and to reduce the burdens 

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CONCLUSION

Before I hand the microphone to T.C. Evans, 

let me conclude by saying GPO is not going 

to redesign the Federal Depository Library 

Program here in Washington and impose a 

new structure on the depository library 

community. GPO administers the program

on behalf of the participating libraries and the 

public we jointly serve. That community – 

with help from each of you – must drive the 

decisions about what the program should be 

in the future. We cannot do it without you – 

and, even if we could, we do not want to, or 

intend to, do it without you. 

To do this well, we must be like the twoheaded Roman god Janus. We must look 

both forward and backwards. We must “get 

out of the box” and take a fresh look at the 

mission we share and determine the best 

means to accomplish it. We should not limit 

ourselves to incremental changes to the 

current system, but seek a new vision, which 

respects the foundation of the current 

program, but is not constrained by it, and that 

takes optimum advantage of the enormous 

volume of electronic resources that are, and 

will become, available. 

At the same time, we must find creative ways 

to reduce the burdens of the large historical 

collections on our regional depository 

libraries and other large selective libraries, 

without losing the value of having a 

distributed system that protects these assets 

and ensures permanent public access. One of 

the strengths of the current system is that no 

single natural or man-made disaster can wipe 

out the collective record of our democracy 

because it is housed in hundreds of libraries 

throughout the nation. 

GPO will work with the library community to 

encourage and facilitate setting up shared 

facilities into which collections can be deduplicated. GPO will also work with you on 

expanded digitization, preservation, 

cataloging, and other services to better 

manage the retrospective materials and make 

them more accessible to users in and outside 

of your libraries. 

We already have many partnerships with 

depository libraries to facilitate public access 

to government information. The CyberCemetary at the University of North Texas 

and DOSFAM, the State Department 

collection at the University of Illinois, 

Chicago, are two outstanding examples of the 

contributions that individual depository 

libraries continue to make to our common 

mission. Our new initiatives will create many 

new opportunities for libraries both large and 

small to participate and to work with GPO to 

improve public access to government 

information. 

I also want to encourage each of you to work 

with one another and with GPO to determine 

the mix of services that GPO must offer in 

the future to make it worthwhile for libraries 

to participate in the FDLP. We need your 

participation. We need the your best ideas. 

We need your constructive criticism of the 

current program.

It is particularly important to identify new 

services that can be offered exclusively to 

depository libraries, so there are some 

substantial, tangible benefits to participation 

when all or virtually all of the material can be 

obtained free from the Internet without the 

obligations of being a depository library. 

Library directors are challenged daily to 

accomplish more with fewer resources. We

must make sure that the value of the FDLP is 

worth what it costs to participate and that it 

provides services that are of substantial value 

to library directors, as well as to depository 

staff and patrons. 

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Bruce James frequently says that he did not 

come to Washington to run a printing plant. 

He came to address the challenges of public 

access to government information. He sees 

GPO's primary mission as information 

management and dissemination, with printing 

as one way to accomplish that mission, but by 

no means the only way. I am truly delighted 

to be back at GPO, working with him and the 

management team that he has assembled – 

and with you – on these important issues. 

Together we can redefine the FDLP and 

strengthen it so that it continues to serve the 

American people for the next 100 years as 

well as it has for nearly 200 years. I look 

forward to working with you to accomplish 

that. 

With that, I will turn the meeting over to T.C. 

Evans. After he speaks, you will have the 

opportunity to ask questions of both of us and 

of other GPO staff. 

Remarks to Depository Library Council 

By 

T.C. Evans 

Deputy Superintendent of Documents 

Depository Library Conference/Fall Council Meeting 

October 20, 2003 

It is wonderful to once again have the 

opportunity to update our partners in the 

depository community on some of the many 

activities taking place at GPO concerning our 

information dissemination programs. We are 

working hard in many areas to develop a 

structure that can meet the challenges of the 

rapidly changing government information 

environment and deliver the best possible 

services to our partners and customers. 

More and more it seems, technology is 

presenting the possibility to create once and 

utilize the result to serve multiple purposes. 

This opportunity to functionally leverage 

requires careful thought, but it is vital to the 

future of our information dissemination 

programs. In addition to letting you know 

where we are on other efforts, I hope to touch 

on a number of these areas this morning. 

Sixteen personnel from GPO are in 

Williamsburg, Virginia this week beginning 

their participation in an executive fellows 

program designed to better prepare them to 

help the organization move into the future. 

Five of the participants are key members of 

the Information 

Dissemination/Superintendent of Documents 

organization well known to you. They are 

Vicki Barber, Ric Davis, Tad Downing, 

Laurie Hall, and Karen Sieger. Hopefully, 

you will understand and forgive their absence 

at the conference, as they work with experts 

and other participants from throughout 

government to learn the latest techniques to 

help us better serve you. 

GPO Access continues its popularity and 

there is a handout available that should 

provide you with a number of details. I 

would like to touch on just a few of the most 

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There are some key changes to the GPO 

Access User Support Team that were put in 

place to better serve our partners and users. 

New hours allow you to have access to their 

services from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm EST. The 

new eService Center is available on GPO 

Access. As a result of this availability, 

questions previously answered are not only 

available to support representatives, but to 

users as well through an online knowledge 

base. 

We believe that an interim replacement for 

the WAIS platform for GPO Access has been 

identified and can be implemented in a 

reasonable timeframe. This will allow for the 

completion of the mirror site at Pueblo, which 

will be set up based on the new platform. 

Data will be migrated to the mirror site in 

fully tagged and digitally signed form. A 

group is hard at work on the final analysis of 

the product and how it might be made 

available in the near future. Preliminary tests 

with some of our most popular products such 

as the Federal Register have been extremely 

encouraging.

I hope you will take the time to help us with 

both of these important efforts. During our 

open forum being held this afternoon in Salon 

C at 3:30 p.m., demonstrations of the 

eService Center knowledge base and a 

version of Federal Register created for testing 

with the new interim search platform will be 

provided. Each will be followed by a chance 

to provide feedback on what you like and 

what could be done to improve it for you. 

The ongoing effort to utilize Public Key 

Infrastructure (PKI) to aid in the process of

securing the chain of custody for the 

electronic publishing of government 

information and its subsequent use to 

authenticate electronic documents is 

progressing. Work to establish GPO as a 

certificate authority tied into the Federal 

Bridge Certificate Authority is progressing, 

as are efforts for the use of PKI in the 

legislative and regulatory publishing process. 

Once these efforts have been completed, the 

Chief Information Officer’s organization will 

be leading an effort to digitally sign all of the 

documents made available through GPO 

Servers. 

At the same time, staff is meeting with 

vendors to examine the possibilities inherent 

in digital watermarking technologies. One 

focus of this examination is to learn how this 

technology might be employed to provide for 

authentication even after a printed copy of 

one of these authenticated files has been 

made. 

Information Dissemination staff are also 

working on pilot efforts to examine possible 

uses for other technologies. One such 

example is a team working to establish a 

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) 

cache at GPO. Initially, this will be the 

typical configuration of journal material 

found on other LOCKSS caches, but the 

effort will be examining the possibilities for 

safeguarding and making available other 

materials through this method. 

Another team is setting up a test of Digital 

Object Identifiers (DOI) to examine their 

possible use in our programs. One of the 

enticing aspects of DOI is the ability to 

provide options, such as a persistent address 

for the official electronic version, copies in 

collections at depository libraries, or the 

ability to purchase a printed copy for personal 

use. 

A great deal of effort is being expended to 

return the Sales Program to a point where it is 

recovering its costs. You have already heard 

of the closings of our bookstores around the 

country as our customer’s transition to online 

purchasing. Another effort has been the 

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reduction of staff. The recent GPO-wide 

buyout program provided for the departure of 

more than 100 staff in Documents Sales 

Service. 

This action will result in millions of dollars in 

savings for the Sales Program, but the ways 

that we do business and the technological 

infrastructure must be improved as well. An 

effort to identify and procure the services of a 

consultant to help us with this process is 

nearing completion. The consultant will have 

60 days to examine the sales operation and 

deliver recommendations for improvement, 

including a new generation of systems to 

facilitate the operation of the program and to 

act as the online face to our customers. 

As this effort is taking place, procedural 

changes in the way publications are acquired 

and made available are well under way. 

After examinations of how others in this 

business successfully operate, it became clear 

that one of the biggest risks was buying and 

storing costly inventory that might not sell. 

We are rapidly moving to take advantage of 

advances in print on demand technology to 

provide for just-in-time inventory needs and 

the ability to broaden our offerings without 

risk, or true on demand. In this scenario, a 

copy is not printed until it has been ordered. 

Traditional purchasing and storage methods 

will still be employed for titles that due to 

either their construct or contents would pose 

unreasonable challenges to an on demand 

process. 

Whenever possible, however, high quality on 

demand processes will be employed to 

continue availability with less risk. This 

should enable titles to remain in the program 

indefinitely, without going out of print. 

On demand printing may also serve other 

program needs, such as those of the FDLP. 

The possibilities of allowance accounts were 

discussed at the Regional Depository 

Conference over the past few days that would 

allow for libraries to acquire printed copies 

through what has been set up for on demand 

printing for the Sales Program. It is unclear 

just how this would be set up, but we will 

continue to examine the possibilities. 

One big organizational adjustment to result 

from these acquisition changes has been the 

ability to consolidate and reduce our storage 

and distribution operations. Sheila McGarr 

has been leading a fast-paced and successful 

consolidation of our warehouse operations in 

Laurel, Maryland. The result of this 

consolidation will be savings of hundreds of 

thousands of dollars per year as the operation 

reduces from two buildings to one, 

effectively cutting our leased space in half. 

A similar examination of the depository 

distribution function will soon take place in 

an effort to better serve our library partners. 

This effort will focus on how to most 

effectively store and distribute the materials 

being sent to depository libraries in light of 

the changes in the program and in the 

operations of our partner libraries. Your 

feedback will play an important role in this 

effort. 

In speaking of the importance of feedback, as 

I close I want to remind you to take every 

opportunity to let us know your ideas. Many 

of the positive changes taking place in 

Information Dissemination came about 

through suggestions from our library partners. 

I thank you for your time and I look forward 

to talking with you during the conference. 
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[Handout] 

GPO Access Update 

Office of Electronic Information Dissemination ServicesFall 2003 

Federal Depository Library Conference and Depository

Library Council Meeting 

October 19-22, 2003, Arlington, Virginia 

GPO Access Statistical Measures 

3⁄4 Since 1994, GPO Access retrievals have 

exceeded 1.7 billion, which is equivalent 

to over 41.7 billion typewritten pages, and 

reached an all-time monthly high of over 

36.8 million document retrievals in 

January 2003.

3⁄4 The average number of monthly retrievals 

from GPO Access is currently 32 million 

and the average size of these documents 

is currently about 49kb. With 2kb 

equaling roughly one typewritten page, 

the average size of a document retrieved 

from GPO Access equates to some 24.5 

typewritten pages and costs less than a 

penny per retrieval.

3⁄4 GPO Access contains over 153,000 

electronic titles and points to over 

101,000 others for a total of over 254,000 

titles.

3⁄4 GPO Access provides use of almost 2,900 

databases through more than 100 

applications.

New GPO Customer Service Tool 

3⁄4 As part of ongoing efforts to provide 

users with the highest quality service, the 

U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) 

is pleased to announce the launch of a 

new customer service tool, which can be 

found on the "help" page at 

<http://www.gpoaccess.gov/help>. This 

tool consists of a knowledge base that has 

been populated with answers to 

frequently asked questions related to the 

following services: GPO Access, the U.S. 

Government Online Bookstore, and the 

Federal Depository Library Program. 

Phone assistance is also available 

Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

eastern standard time at 888-293-6498 

(toll-free) and 202-512-1530 (DC Metro 

area).

New GPO Access User Support Team and 

GPO Publications Order Desk Hours 

3⁄4 New business hours were initiated for the 

GPO Access User Support Team and 

GPO Publications Order Desk on 

September 9, 2003. The new hours are 

7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. EST, Monday 

through Friday (except Federal holidays). 

For assistance with a GPO Access

database or the Online Bookstore, contact 

the GPO Access User Support Team at: 

Toll-Free: 1-888-293-6498, DC Area: 

202-512-1530, Fax: 202-512-1262. To 

inquire about a publication or place an 

order, contact the GPO Order Desk at: 

Toll-Free: 1-866-512-1800, DC Area: 

202-512-1800, Fax: 1-202-512-2250. 

Additional information is available at 

<http://www.gpoaccess.gov/help>.

WAIS Replacement 

3⁄4 Work continues on procuring a new 

platform to replace the WAIS search and 

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retrieval software for GPO Access

databases. GPO staff identified software 

that meets our customer functionality 

requirements; based in part on the 

feedback we have received from many 

users through surveys, open forums, and 

focus groups. Plans are underway to 

move forward with the procurement and 

implementation of this software, and to 

migrate all WAIS databases on GPO 

Access to a new platform to ensure 

continuity throughout the site and ease of 

use for customers. 

What’s New on GPO Access

3⁄4 The Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence

Community Activities Before and After 

the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 

2001 (S. Rept. 107-351 and H. Rept.

107-792) reports are now available on

GPO Access at <http://www.gpoaccess.

gov/serialset/creports/911.html>. 

3⁄4 The Columbia Accident Review Board 

(CAIB) Final Report, which details the 

causes of the Feb. 1, 2003 Space Shuttle 

accident, is available online at <http://

purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS35740>.

3⁄4 The Constitution of the United States of 

America as Amended, Unratified 

Amendments, Analytical Index (House 

Document 108-95) is now available on 

GPO Access at <http://www.gpoaccess.

gov/constitution/index.html>.

3⁄4 The FY03 – FY04 U.S. Government

Manual is now available on GPO Access

at <http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/

index.html>.

3⁄4 The Constitution of the United States of 

America, Pocket Edition (House 

Document 108-96) is now available on 

GPO Access at <http://www.gpoaccess.

gov/constitution/index.html>.

Online Advertising of New GPO Access

Home Page on Google 

3⁄4 In an effort to further promote the new 

design of GPO Access, GPO conducted a 

three-month campaign to have the GPO 

Access home page appear at the top of the 

search results on Google for selected 

keywords through Google’s “Premium 

Sponsorships” program. A total of 40 

keywords were bid on, such as “gpo 

access” and “federal regulations.” The 

campaign was a huge success, bringing 

94,000 Google users to the site in the 

three-month period. Similar campaigns 

are now underway on Google and 

Overture to promote the U.S. Government 

Online Bookstore.

Online Bookstore Enhancements 

3⁄4 Over the past several years, GPO has 

made a number of enhancements to the 

U.S. Government Online Bookstore to 

improve the customer experience in 

regard to searching and ordering Federal 

Government publications. In order to 

move forward with the “next generation” 

of services that customers are expecting 

from the Online Bookstore, GPO has 

nearly completed the process of procuring 

the services of a consultant who can 

identify an e-commerce solution and

make a recommendation on how GPO 

should proceed with a commercial ecommerce solution. The consultant, once 

the procurement is finalized, will 

recommend a solution within a 60 workday period.

Under Development 

3⁄4 GPO is continuing work as part of its 

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) effort to 

assure customers that the information 

made available for permanent public 

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access through GPO Access is “official” 

and “authentic.” GPO recently approved 

and implemented a Certificate Policy and 

a PKI Architecture document. A 

Certification Practices Statement is 

currently under development. GPO plans 

to use this documentation as part of its 

effort to stand-up a PKI operation, and 

will seek cross-certification of its PKI 

with the Federal Bridge Certificate 

Authority. Once cross-certified, GPO 

staff working under the Chief Information 

Officer’s (CIO) organization, will take 

steps to digitally sign all of the documents 

made available through GPO servers. 

GPO also plans to issue and validate 

digital certificates in the future as part of 

its services.

Upcoming Outreach 

EIDS personnel will be attending and 

displaying the GPO booth and/or conducting 

training at the following venues: 

October 22 - 26 American Association of School Librarians, 11th National 

Conference & Exhibition 

Kansas City, 

MO 

November 5 University of Nevada, Reno, Library, GPO Access Training Reno, NV 

December 9 - 13 National League of Cities Congress of Cities and Exposition Nashville, TN

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Responses to Recommendations 

of the Depository Library Council 

April 6-9, 2003 

Reno, NV 

RECOMMENDATIONS 

1. Online MoCat 

Council recommends that the Government 

Printing Office suspend publication of the 

printed version of the Monthly Catalog of 

United States Government Publications and 

its Serials Supplement as soon as it is possible 

to replace these tools with dynamic online 

versions. The United States Congressional 

Serial Set Catalog’s Numerical Lists and

Schedule of Volumes, however, should 

continue to be published in the printed 

version. 

Rationale: The expense of producing and 

printing the paper version of the Monthly 

Catalog of United States Government 

Publications and its supplements far 

outweighs its usefulness to libraries and 

the public. The new Integrated Library 

System, when implemented, will allow 

the Government Printing Office to create 

timely, dynamic lists of bibliographic 

records produced by the Government

Printing Office by any time interval or 

format, which could then be printed, 

downloaded, or used online. This 

dynamic online version would meet the 

spirit of the statutory requirement 

mandating monthly publication of a list of 

government documents available to the 

public and indeed would exceed the 

usefulness of the current printed versions. 

Because of the unique value of the United 

States Congressional Serial Set Catalog’s 

Numerical Lists and Schedule of Volumes

for reference and collection management, 

these products should continue to be 

published in the printed version. 

Response: 

GPO intends to suspend publication of the 

printed version of the Monthly Catalog of 

United States Government Publications and 

its Serials Supplement as soon as fully 

functional online versions are available. The 

Numerical Lists and Schedule of Volumes,

which are part of the United States 

Congressional Serial Set Catalog, will

continue to be published in ink-on-paper 

format. 

These product changes are contingent upon 

the implementation of the Integrated Library 

System and development of its online public 

access catalog components. 

2. United States Library of Public 

Information 

Council recommends that as the Government 

Printing Office pursues its initiative in 

creating a United States Library of Public 

Information, the Government Printing Office, 

along with members of the depository library 

community, develop a cogent, flexible 

collection that is: 

1. Comprehensive in scope and content 

2. Fully cataloged 

3. Widely accessible 

4. Permanently archived 

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Rationale: In today’s increasingly 

electronic environment, the need for a 

United States Library of Public 

Information providing permanent public 

access, full cataloging records, widely 

accessible and comprehensive in scope, 

becomes more of a national need. GPO’s 

pursuit of this library will address the 

current and future needs of the new 

depository environment. 

Response: 

The library of public information collection is 

intended to support and strengthen the U.S. 

Government Printing Office mission to 

provide comprehensive, timely, permanent 

public access to U.S. Government 

publications in all formats. GPO will acquire 

and preserve copies of government 

publications, and digitize them when 

necessary. GPO will provide online access to 

electronic format publications and make them

available for other GPO dissemination 

programs. Through access to stored digital 

objects, and by repurposing those objects for 

print-on-demand and document delivery 

services, the collection will support diverse 

GPO organizations and operations. In 

addition to publications acquired, harvested, 

or created for the Federal Depository Library 

Program (FDLP), the collection will include 

agency source data files acquired pursuant to 

the OMB compact, or the digital objects 

representing E-docket submissions. The 

collection will serve as the collection of last 

resort for Federal depository libraries, in the 

sense the depository libraries will be able to 

obtain replacement copies for damaged or 

lost print items in their legacy collections. 

GPO is developing a collection plan that is 

focused on the digital collection and related 

document delivery functions of the library of 

public information. These concepts will be 

discussed at the Regional Librarians’ 

Meeting, and will be made available to the 

Council and the library community for review 

and public comment prior to its finalization. 

It is GPO’s goal to have collection operations 

begin in fiscal year 2005.

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Readers Exchange 

Northeastern State University Library 

Celebrates 80 Years as Federal Depository 

Jeanette McQuitty 

Government Publications Coordinator 

John Vaughan Library

Northeastern State University 

On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 12 noon, 

the John Vaughan Library at Northeastern 

State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma

celebrated its 80th anniversary as a Federal 

Documents Depository. Congressman Brad 

Carson, 2nd Congressional District of 

Oklahoma, was the honored guest and 

speaker at the festive occasion. State 

Representative Jim Wilson, representing 

District 4 in the State Legislature, was also a 

guest and introduced Congressman Carson. 

Regional Government Publications Librarians 

John Phillips, Oklahoma State University, 

and Steve Beleu, Oklahoma Department of 

Libraries, were also present. 

Carson spoke about the importance of the 

John Vaughan Library as a Federal 

depository of government publications. 

“They are, in the end, the bulwark for our 

democracy. It’s sometimes hard to know 

what’s going on, but these publications are 

our way of trying to tell people across the 

country what we’re doing, and it is there for 

people to read, whether you’re young or old, 

if you’re interested in holding your 

government accountable,” said Carson. 

Carson expressed his appreciation of the 

library staff: “To all of the librarians, thank 

you for the good work you do, because you 

are changing people’s lives, young people’s 

lives especially, by introducing them to 

things that might be outside their normal 

experience.” 

Wilson spoke of the NSU Library’s 

importance as a Federal depository. “This is 

how we keep democracy whole and safe. We

have got to know what our government is 

doing; and if you don’t know what your 

government is doing, if you’re not involved, 

people like me will be running the 

government, and I know nobody wants that,” 

said Wilson, drawing laughter from the 

crowd. He also said, “This is to keep 

information in your hand so you can keep us 

honest, and that’s what it’s all about. That’s 

how our democracy survives.” 

A letter dated February 15, 1923, from the 

Superintendent of Documents in Washington, 

D.C. designated the Northeastern State 

Teachers College Library as a depository. 

Jeanette McQuitty, director of user services 

and government publications coordinator, 

said that NSU’s was the seventh library in the 

state of Oklahoma to receive depository 

status. There are now 19 depository libraries 

in the state. NSU’s was the only depository 

in the second congressional district until the 

recent congressional redistricting. McQuitty 

said, “Since 1923, the John Vaughan Library 

at NSU has been providing access to 

government information to the people of the 

2nd Congressional District of Oklahoma. Not 

only has the Federal documents depository 

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been a valuable resource to the citizens of 

Oklahoma, but it has also provided reliable, 

timely research materials for our faculty and 

students. As of May 31, 2003, there are 

241,634 Federal publications in our 

collection. At least 60 percent of all 

government publications are now available to 

our users in electronic format. We provide 

computers equipped with CD and DVD 

drives to meet the Government Printing 

Office’s recommended specifications for 

public access workstations.” 

Connie Mnich, government publications 

technician, prepared several displays

including documents under each President 

since 1923 and “Forty-six important Federal 

publications about Oklahoma,” a list 

compiled by Beleu. She also presented a 

Federal document to Congressman Carson, 

“A History of the United States Capitol: A 

Chronicle of Design, Construction, and 

Politics,” gifts to the regional librarians and 

certificates of appreciation to McQuitty 

signed by Superintendent of Documents 

Judith Russell and Gil Baldwin, Director, 

Library Programs Service. McQuitty 

presented an Oneida crystal eagle-clock to 

Mnich. 

A regional workshop for librarians and 

technicians who administer and maintain 

Federal depository library collections or 

provide reference services to the public was 

held from 9 a.m. - 12 noon. Beleu presented 

the workshop, American Memory: 

Oklahoma. 

Jeanette McQuitty 

Government Publications Coordinator 

John Vaughan Library

Northeastern State University 

Tahlequah, Oklahoma 74464

Congressman Brad Carson, 2nd Congressional District, Oklahoma, speaks to the crowd 

gathered to celebrate the Federal Depository’s 80th anniversary.
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NOVEMBER IS

BIENNIAL SURVEY MONTH

Watch for Announcements on FDLP-L 

Dates: November 5 – December 5, 2003 

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/bisurvey/03survey.html 

It’s Online! 

It’s Easy! 

It’s Required! 

GPO-FDLP-L 

The Exclusive Vehicle for 

Official FDLP Announcements 

Free! 

Fast! 

Timely! 

Official! 

To subscribe, go to <http://listserv.access.gpo.gov/>. 

Click on <Online Mailing List Archives>. 

Click on <GPO-FDLP-L>. 

Click on <Join or leave the list> and follow the instructions. 

O The Archives contain all postings to the list, in chronological order. O

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Table of Contents 

Public Printer Bruce James Presents Tulsa City-County Library With 

 First Ever Depository Library of the Year Award..................................................................... 1 

New Library Inspector Appointed: Michele Worthington............................................................ 2 

17th Annual Interagency Depository Seminar Announced for June 2004 ................................... 3 

ERIC Reports Now Available in GPO Access ............................................................................. 7 

Information Dissemination Operations / Russell, 2003 Fall Council Meeting............................. 7 

Remarks / Evans, 2003 Fall Council Meeting ............................................................................ 13 

Handout, GPO Access Update .................................................................................................... 16 

Responses to Council Recommendations, 2003, Spring ............................................................ 19 

Readers Exchange: Anniversary................................................................................................. 21 

November Is Biennial Survey Month ......................................................................................... 23 

Subscribe to FDLP-L.................................................................................................................. 23 

Administrative Notes Cumulative Table of Contents 

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/adnotes/adnotes_toc.pdf 

Updated with each issue 

Searchable by keyword 

Administrative Notes is published in Washington, DC by the Superintendent of Documents, 

Library Programs Service, Government Printing Office, for the staffs of U.S. Federal 

Depository Libraries. 

It is published on the 15th day of each month; some months have additional issues. 

Postmaster send address changes to: The Editor, Administrative Notes 

U.S. Government Printing Office

Library Programs Service, SLLD 

Washington, DC 20401 

Internet access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/adnotes/index.html 

Editor: Marian W. MacGilvray (202) 512-1119 mmacgilvray@gpo.gov

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