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Benefits of Being a Member Library of the FDLP

Some libraries are considering dropping their depository status; their reasons for doing so can be varied. However, library administrators and documents coordinators should consider the many benefits of depository status before they decide to drop depository designation. Below are some links to Web pages that detail reasons to continue participation in the Federal Depository Library Program.

Incentives Document

• Incentives Document Progress Report 2: The Carrot Crop is Still Growing, 10/05
  - MS Word | PDF
• Incentives Document Progress Report: How's the Carrot Crop Doing?, 10/17/04
  - MS Word | PDF
• Submit Suggestions for Additional Incentives to GPO

Depository Library Council, Operations Subcommittee on Attrition and Retention (SOAR)

• Suggested Responses to Frequently Cited Reasons for Leaving the Depository Library System - HTML | MS Word | PDF
• Benefits of Being a Federal Depository Library - HTML | MS Word | PDF
• Benefits of Being a Depository - Public Library Perspective - HTML | MS Word | PDF

Spring 2003 Depository Library Council Meeting Presentations

• Profile of a Successful Depository Library--A Regional Perspective
  Ann Marie Sanders, Library of Michigan
  Janet Fisher, Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
  PowerPoint (13.3 KB) | Text-only version of PowerPoint
  Accompanying handout - ASCII Text | MS Word | PDF
• Deposits & Withdrawals: A Survey of Depository Libraries that have Recently Changed Status. Presentation at the Depository Library Council Meeting, April 8th, 2003. Reno, NV.
  Luke Griffin, Jacksonville State University
  Aric Ahrens, Illinois Institute of Technology

Spring 2002 Depository Library Council Meeting Presentations

• Value of Participating in the FDLP: How Depository Coordinators Can Effectively Convey this Message to Library Administration
  Barbara Ford, Assistant Commissioner, Chicago Public Library
  MS Word (21 KB) | PDF (3.83 KB)
• Value of Participating in the FDLP: How Depository Coordinators Can Effectively Convey This Message
  Mary Prophet, Deputy Director, Denison University Libraries
  PowerPoint (71.5 KB) | PowerPoint Text

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Federal Depository Library Conference October 22 - 25, 2000

• Questions for "Reconsidering Depository Status" (panel discussion)
  A. Hays Butler, Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, NJ
  David C.R. Heisser, The Citadel Military College, Charleston, SC
  Sheila M. McGarr, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC
  Elizabeth M. McKenzie, Suffolk University Law Library, Boston, MA

Proceedings of the 6th Annual Federal Depository Library Conference April 14-17, 1997

• To Be or Not To Be a Depository: Answering the Questions and Envisioning a Brighter Future
  Diann Weatherly, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
• To Be or Not To Be a Depository: Answering the Questions and Envisioning a Brighter Future From the Vantage Point of a Regional Federal Depository Library
  Barbara Levergood, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Cost benefits/savings of being in the FDLP

Depository Library Council, Reports and Publications

• Resources on Costs of Replacing a Federal Document Depository Library Collection

Studies

• Is All The Material Sent To Depository Libraries Available On The Web?
  Robert Lopresti, Western Washington University
  June 2000 (minor corrections October 2000)
• ANOTHER STUDY: Is All the Material Sent To Depository Libraries Available On The Web?
  Marcia Gorin, Florida State University
  November 2000, (Slightly revised February 2001)

GOVDOC-L messages

• Subject: COST OF BEING A DEPOSITORY - SUMMARY (December 12, 1996)
• Subject: Serial Set Appraisal (November 18, 2002)
• Subject: Summary of Responses: Benefits of the FDLP (September 12, 2002)

Additional Incentive Suggestion Form

Do you have additional incentives to stay with the Federal Depository Library Program that you would like GPO to consider? Please share them with us here.

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Last updated: July 6, 2006
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