Date:Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:28:58 -0400
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Subject:Invitation to Meeting with Directors of Depository Libraries at A
LA
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I have sent a letter of invitation to each of your directors, asking them to
join me for a meeting on the future of the FDLP during the ALA meeting in
Orlando. The meeting will be a brown bag lunch from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. in
Ballroom C at the Renaissance Orlando Resort (the room will be available
from 11:30 a.m. on). I have also sent a letter to each of you (the text is
provided below).
I am asking that you personally invite your director if he or she will be in
Orlando and then accompany your director to the meeting. Your director can
designate a senior staff member to accompany you if he or she is
unavailable.
We hosted a meeting for directors at the Depository Library Council meeting
in St. Louis. About 40 directors were able to attend and the feedback from
the directors was very positive. The St. Louis meeting was for directors
only. I am trying a different format for this one and asking that you bring
your director to the meeting, so you will have the opportunity to discuss
the issues with me and with one another. (We will probably try other formats
at future meetings. I would welcome your suggestions for alternative
formats.)
Because the purpose of the meeting is to provide an opportunity for me to
speak with and listen to your directors, I ask that you attend ONLY if you
are accompanied by your library director (or a designated senior staff
substitute). That provides an incentive for you to get them to come.
Although an RSVP is not required, it would help me to know if you and your
director are attending, so I can estimate the size of the audience.
If you have any questions, please let me know. I hope to see you -- and your
director -- in Orlando.
Judy
Judith C. Russell ([log in to unmask])
Managing Director, Information Dissemination (Superintendent of Documents)
U.S. Government Printing Office
Phone: 202-512-0571
Fax: 202-512-1434
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I would like to invite you to accompany your director to a special meeting
of depository library directors at the annual conference of the American
Library Association in Orlando, Florida, next month. ALA's Government
Documents Roundtable has kindly allotted time for a discussion of the future
of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) on Sunday, June 27, from
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at the Renaissance Orlando Resort, in Ballroom C.
(The room will be open at 11:30 a.m. and the meeting will convene at 12
noon, so please bring a brown bag lunch and join us.)
I am sending your director a separate letter of invitation, encouraging him
or her to attend and to bring you along. As the purpose of the meeting is to
speak with directors, I must ask that you attend only in the company of your
library director (or a designated senior staff substitute).
I will speak briefly and then use the remainder of the time to answer the
directors' questions and listen to their concerns and recommendations.
I am enclosing, and also sending your director, the recommended reading list
for information sources covering the current issues concerning the FDLP.
Please bring any specific items on the list that you believe would be of
interest to your director to his or her attention.
GPO staff will be displaying U.S. government information resources and
services at the GPO Booth (#1269). I hope you will be able to visit it and
talk with the GPO staff there. .
I look forward to seeing you in Orlando.
Sincerely,
