The review process will require Council and depository library input as well as an analysis of available statistics. The Council requests a report prior to the Spring meeting. Council believes that an analysis of usage from the Biennial Survey and Web statistics will assist GPO in its review of these tools. The report will assist GPO and Council in deciding the future of GPO locator tools. Self Study Process Council is encouraged by the modifications that GPO is making in the self-study schedule.
Libraries now receive no acknowledgment that their self-studies have been received.
A brief acknowledgment, even by e-mail, would assure depositories that their studies were in the process, and would be a courtesy much appreciated by the libraries. The time delay between self-study submission and evaluation reports would be more acceptable to libraries if some information on progress could be made available. The Electronic Transition Committee will review GPO's progress on the transition to a more electronic FDLP and prepare a final report to Council for the Spring 2000 Council Meeting. Digital Products on Tangible Media Council recognizes the importance of preserving digital products distributed to the FDLP on tangible media. The Preservation Committee members will report to Council at the spring 2000 meeting and provide an assessment tool for review.