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Proceedings of the 6th Annual Federal Depository Library Conference

April 14-17, 1997

Agenda
Spring 1997 Depository Library Council
Meeting &
Federal Depository Conference

 

April 14 - 17, 1997
Washington National Airport Hilton
2399 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, Virginia

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Sunday, April 13

Afternoon

 

4:00-5:00 Orientation to the Depository Library Council and Federal Depository Library Conference

This session is designed to acquaint first time attendees with how Council works and to preview Conference activities over the next 3½ days.
    • Sheila McGarr, Library Programs Service (LPS), GPO, Facilitator

6:00 Informal pre-dinner get-together to network by food preference

Monday, April 14

Morning

8:00 Registration and Coffee with Council and GPO Staff

8:30 Welcome & Remarks

    • Jan Fryer, Council Chair
    • Michael F. DiMario, Public Printer

9:00 Keynote Address
    • Eric Peterson, Staff Director, Joint Committee on Printing

9:30 50th Council Meeting Commemoration

9:45 Break

10:15 GPO Update

    • Wayne P. Kelley, Superintendent of Documents
    • Gil Baldwin, Chief, Library Division, Library Programs Service (LPS)
    • Robin Haun-Mohamed, Chief, Depository Administration Branch, LPS
    • Sandy Morton-Schwalb, Electronic Transition Specialist, LPS
    • Thomas A. Downing, Chief, Cataloging Branch, LPS
    • T.C. Evans, Assistant Director, Office of Electronic Information Dissemination Services (EIDS)
    • Joyce T. Parsons, Program Analyst, Documents Technical Support Group

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12:00 Working Lunch

In order to foster networking, librarians are requested to lunch with other librarians from similar types of institutions.

Afternoon

2:00-5:00 Depository Library Council

Committee Reports and Recommendations for Council Action

2:00-5:00 New Documents Librarians

Informal session to answer questions from mundane to complex about depository issues. For new documents librarians or those who feel "new" to any aspect of depository librarianship. Veteran documents librarians from a variety of backgrounds plus GPO staff will be available.
    • Ann Miller, Acting Team Leader, Public Documents and Maps, Duke University, Facilitator
    • Cynthia Wolff, Acting Head, Government Publications and Maps, Northwestern University

2:00-5:00 GPO Access (Demonstration): All Databases

    • Terri Barnes, Management Analyst, EIDS
    • Vicki Ries, Management Analyst, EIDS

2:00-3:00 LPS Tour

2:00-3:00 Patent Public Search Room Tour

2:00-3:00 Center for Legislative Archives Tour

2:00-4:00 STAT-USA/Internet Demonstration

2:00-3:00 Pathway Services (Demonstration)
    • Lee Morey, Electronic Transition Staff (ETS), LPS

2:00-3:15 To Be or Not To Be a Depository: Answering the Questions and Envisioning a Brighter Future
    • Diann Weatherly, Documents Reference Librarian, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    • Barbara Levergood, Electronic Documents Librarian, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    • Anna Sylvan, GIS/Government Documents Librarian, St. Charles City-County Library District

3:00-4:00 OCLC's Electronic Archiving Initiatives
    • John A. Hearty, Director, Reference Services Business Development Division, OCLC

3:30-5:00 Managing the Depository Database: Some Opportunities With Shared Technology

Part I: GPRD-Institutional and Statewide Benefits of an Internet Accessible Relational Database
    • Nan Myers, Government Documents Librarian and Cataloger, Wichita State University

Part II: BDLD and GPO: Creating a Database of Fundamental Depository Information for Web Access by Depository Libraries
    • Thomas Tyler, Associate Director for Budget and Technical Planning, University of Denver

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4:00-5:00 What is the Carrot? Incentives to be a Partner (Focus Group)
    • Duncan Aldrich, ETS, Facilitator

5:30 Dinner with Council and GPO (Informal groups meet in hotel lobby)

Tuesday, April 15

Morning

8:00 Coffee with Council & GPO Staff

8:30 Depository Library Council: Working Session

Self-Study of a Federal Depository Library: Progress Report
    • Jan Fryer, Council Chair
    • Sheila McGarr, LPS
    • Gail Snider, LPS
    • Nancy Peluso, Connecticut State Library
    • John Phillips, Oklahoma State University

8:30 Depository Library Council: Working Session

1997 Biennial Survey of Depository Libraries
    • Anne Watts, Council Vice-Chair
    • Sheila McGarr, LPS
    • Diane Garner, Head, Documents & Non-Book Formats, Harvard University

10:00 Break

10:30 Depository Library Council - Plenary Session

Permanent Access Planning: Preservation of USDA Digital Publications
    • Keith Russell, Deputy Library Director, National Agricultural Library
    • Gregory Lawrence, Government Information Librarian, Cornell University
    • Evelyn Frangakis, NAL Preservation Officer, National Agricultural Library
    • Paul F. Uhlir, Associate Director, Special Projects, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, & Applications, National Research Council

12:00 Working Lunch

In order to foster networking, librarians are requested to lunch with other librarians from similar sized institutions

Afternoon

2:00-5:00 Depository Library Council Working Session

Committee Reports

Other topics TBA

2:00-3:15 Federal Agency Update Session, Part I

Census Bureau

    • John Kavaliunas, Assistant Chief, Marketing Services Office, Bureau of the Census

STAT-USA

    • Ken Rogers, Director, STAT-USA, Economics and Statistics Administration

Small Business Administration

    • John Ward, Writer/Editor, Office of Advocacy

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2:00-5:00 GPO Access (Demonstration): All Databases
    • Terri Barnes, Management Analyst, EIDS
    • Vicki Ries, Management Analyst, EIDS

 

2:00-3:00 LPS Tour

2:00-3:00 Trademark Public Search Room Tour

2:00-3:00 National Digital Library Demonstration

2:00-3:00 Patent Products on CD-ROM (Demonstration)
    • David Morrison, Fellowship Librarian, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

3:00-4:00 Tell Someone Who Cares: Creating Opportunities to Inform the World (Outside of Libraries) About Government Documents
    • Robert Hinton, Reference/Documents Librarian, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

3:30-5:00 Federal Agency Update Session, Part II

Federal Information Center Program

    • Warren Snaider, Manager, General Services Administration

NASA and Information Dissemination on the Doorstep of the New Millennium

    • Dr. Roger Launius, Chief Historian, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

    • Anne Bolin, NCJRS Librarian

4:00-5:00 Pathway Services (Demonstration)
    • Lee Morey, ETS

Wednesday, April 16

Morning

8:00 Coffee with Council & GPO Staff

8:30-12:00 Depository Library Council Working Session

Draft Recommendations and Action Items

8:30-10:00 Regional Program

Innovative Uses of the WWW
    • Ann Marie Sanders, Depository Librarian, Library of Michigan
    • Thomas Tyler, Associate Director for Budget and Technical Planning, University of Denver
    • Saundra Williams, Head, Government Publications, University of Memphis

8:30-9:45 Bibliographic Access to Electronic Resources: National Standards
    • Jean Hirons, Acting CONSER Coordinator, Library of Congress
    • Thomas Downing, Chief, Cataloging Branch, LPS
    • Wilfred Danielson, Cataloger, LPS
    • Eileen Seremeth, Cataloger, LPS
    • Steven Uthoff, Administrative Librarian, LPS

10:00 Break

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10:00-12:00 Federal Publishers Committee

Moving from Print to Electronic Dissemination: Why, When and How to Do It
    • Stan Prochaska, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Department of Agriculture
    • Richard L. Sillcox, Oceanographer, National Ocean Service
    • Gary Lauffer, Chief, Publications Services Branch, Bureau of the Census
    • Tom Hester, Technical Editor, Bureau of Justice Statistics
    • Martha Sneed, Manager, Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

10:00-11:00 LPS Tour

10:00-11:00 Patent Public Search Room Tour

10:00-11:00 National Digital Library Demonstration

10:30-12:00 Regional Program

Bibliographic Control in an Electronic FDLP: Problems, Practices, and Policies

    • Cynthia Wolff, Acting Head, Government Publications and Maps, Northwestern University
    • Carol Bednar, Government Documents Coordinator, California State University, Fullerton
    • Barbara Selby, Government Documents Librarian, University of Virginia
    • Arlene Weible, Periodicals and Government Documents Librarian, Willamette University

10:30-12:00 Digitizing Maps for Preservation
    • Elizabeth Mangan, Head, Technical Services Section, Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress

Alexandria Digital Library: Digitizing Spatial Data for Access and Preservation
    • Mary Larsgaard, Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara

Digital Preservation of Cartographic Materials: Historical Maps and Current Government Information
    • David Cobb, Head, Harvard Map Collection, Harvard University

12:00 Working Lunch

In order to foster networking, librarians are requested to lunch with other librarians from the same geographic region

Afternoon

2:00-5:00 Depository Library Council Working Session

2:00-3:00 Designing Web Pages for Depositories
    • Jennifer McMullen, Government Publications Associate, College of Wooster
    • Rosalind Tedford, Government Documents Assistant, Wake Forest University

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2:00-3:00 Regional Program

Building Library-Agency Partnerships
    • Stuart Basefsky, Information Specialist, Cornell University
    • Gregory Lawrence, Government Information Librarian, Cornell University
    • James Horsfield, Chief, Research Support and Training Branch, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

2:00-5:00 GPO Access (Demonstration): All Databases
    • Terri Barnes, Management Analyst, EIDS
    • Vicki Ries, Management Analyst, EIDS

2:00-3:00 LPS Tour

2:00-3:00 Trademark Public Search Room Tour

2:00-3:00 Center for Legislative Archives Tour

2:00-3:00 Pathway Services (Demonstration)
    • Lee Morey, ETS

3:00-5:00 Regional Service Strategies: Planning Session
    • Daniel Barkley, Government Information Librarian, University of New Mexico
    • Ridley Kessler, Government Documents Librarian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3:15-5:00 Preservation Is Common Sense: Practical Tips for Government Document Collections
    • Julie Arnott, Manager, Preservation Services, SOLINET
    • Thomas Clareson, AMIGOS Preservation Service Manager

Thursday, April 17

Morning

8:00 Coffee with Council & GPO Staff

8:30 Preservation Planning for Permanent Public Access

    • Irene Schubert, Acting Chief, Preservation Reformatting Division, Library of Congress
    • Dr. Kenneth Thibodeau, Director, Center for Electronic Records, National Archives and Records Administration

9:15 Permanent Access Partners
    • Colleen Hope, Director, Office of Public Communication, U.S. Department of State
    • John Shuler, Head, Documents Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
    • Duncan Aldrich, ETS

10:00 Break

10:30 Depository Library Council - Plenary Session

Report of Draft Recommendations and Action Items (including audience response and comments)

12:00 Adjourn

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