Americans are more concerned about access to business records, access to government records, and linkeage issues. Touched on the possibilities of institutionalizing the sharing of data and expertise. Also introduced the possibility of changing the format of the conference to 2 days of workshops, and 2 days of conference sessions, and the possibility of regional meetings. Also, better information on release dates should be made available. E.g., the Current Population Survey data files are not acquired soon enough, and once acquired, should be released twice, once as a hierarchical file, and a second time in the final 'flattened' version.
Scanned documentation is difficult to use, and difficult to print.
And there is no documentation of the print control characters that occur in scanned documentation. There are problems with bibliographic citations - citations which differ from the title pages of the codebooks. There was also some discussion about federal government funding for specialized collections, such as the NSF funding for the census acquisition. Mr. Price-Wilkins was not present, thus no report was presented from this round table. This round table was very active - most of the participants were librarians.