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Reminder to Register for the
2001 Federal Depository Conference and
Fall Depository Library Council Meeting

Those attending the 2001 Federal Depository Conference and fall Depository Library Council meeting are reminded to register. Attendance is free, but registration helps GPO plan the meetings and to have badges and information packets prepared in advance. Online registration is available at <www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/tools/01conreg.html>, or registrants may fax the form below to Chief, Depository Services at 202-512-1432. Please register by October 10, 2001.

The meeting, scheduled for October 14-17, 2001, will be held at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, 625 First Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. For further details, see Administrative Notes, v. 22, # 11 (7/15/01).

Revised Agenda

Fall 2001 Depository Library Council &
Federal Depository Library Conference

New Library Inspector Appointed: Regina Koo

Regina Koo has recently joined the Library Programs Service (LPS) as a depository library inspector. Ms. Koo came from LPS Cataloging Branch, where she was a cataloger for the past 3 1/2 years. Prior to this, she was Cataloging Supervisor/Acting Technical Manager for the U.S. Department of the Interior Libraries. Prior service also included head librarian for the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic Library and Assistant Medical Librarian for the University of Missouri Medical Center. Koo received her M.L.S. from the University of Illinois and her B.A. from the National Taiwan University.

Public Printer Appoints Roberta I. Shaffer to Library Council

Public Printer Michael F. DiMario has named Roberta I. Shaffer as a new member to the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer. Ms. Shaffer currently serves as Executive Director of the Special Libraries Association. Her appointment to the Council fills a vacancy created by the departure of Barbara Levergood, who is relocating to Germany.

The Government Printing Office’s Sales Program has closed its bookstores in Boston, MA, San Francisco, CA and the McPherson Square store in Washington, DC. The Philadelphia, PA bookstore is scheduled to close soon. The closings were prompted by the stores’ declining volume of sales and consequent inability to recover their costs. The Sales Program attributes much of this reduction in sales to increased public access to Government information via the Internet.

The Boston store was closed on August 17, McPherson on July 27, and San Francisco on July 20. The Philadelphia bookstore is scheduled to close its doors to the public on September 14, 2001.

In accordance with the schedule established to regularly increase workstation requirements, new minimum technical requirements for workstations in Federal depository libraries will go into effect October 1, 2001. These requirements were originally issued as the "2000 Recommended Specifications for Public Access Workstations in Federal Depository Libraries" in the June 15, 2000 Administrative Notes (v. 21, # 9).

All Federal depository libraries must meet the minimum technical requirements to keep pace with technological change in order to fulfill their Title 44 obligation to provide access to Government information products. The Library Programs Service (LPS) will continue to issue Recommended Specifications for Public Access Workstations in Federal Depository Libraries each spring to assist depository library staff in planning for new computer purchases.

As another step in the transition to an e-FDLP and in accordance with Depository Library Council recommendations from its spring 2000 meeting, a schedule was established to regularly increase workstation requirements. Fifteen months after issuance, recommended specifications will become minimum technical requirements. The requirements, the recommended specifications, and the schedule are all available from the FDLP Desktop at:

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/computers

Any questions about the Minimum Technical Requirements or Recommended Specifications should be directed to Cynthia Etkin at <cetkin@gpo.gov>.

Congressional Redistricting Requires Update to Library Directory

Libraries are reminded to update their Library Directory Record when their Congressional District is changed. After each decennial Census, apportionment of the 435 House of Representatives seats is done based on the results of the Census. Redistricting, or revision of Congressional district boundaries, is done when population in the state has shifted. Thus, while not every state is gaining or losing Congressional seats, new district boundaries will be drawn in almost every state to account for the population shifts.

According to 44 U.S.C. §1905, there may be up to two depositories in each Congressional district to be designated by Representatives, and not more than two others within the state designated by each Senator.

When the library changes Congressional districts, new vacancies may occur and additional depository libraries may be designated. When redistricting boundaries change and more than two established depository libraries are located in one Congressional district, there is no action taken to reduce the number of depository libraries in that district.

It appears that two states, New York and Pennsylvania, are losing two seats. Eight states, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, are losing one seat. Four states, California, Colorado, Nevada and North Carolina, are gaining one seat, and four states, Arizona, Florida, Georgia and Texas, are gaining two seats.

To update your library’s directory information and to advise GPO of changes in a Congressional district, fill out the online form located at <www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/tools/ldirect.html>. LPS uses this information frequently, often in response to Congressional requests and inquiries.

Cooperative Bibliography and Scanning Project Underway in Oklahoma

Steve Beleu
Oklahoma Department of Libraries
Oklahoma City, OK

The web address listed at the end of this article will take you to Forty-Six Important Federal Publications About Oklahoma, the 46^th State ("46"). This is a bibliography of the 46 Federal publications that Adri Edwards-Johnson of the University of Central Oklahoma and I believe to be the most important historical Federal publications about our state. It excludes two types of publications—the legislation that made Oklahoma a state, and documents about the Indian wars in Oklahoma. These two categories of publications will be listed in two future bibliographies. The bibliography and project are named "46" because Oklahoma was the 46^th state in the U.S.

The "46" bibliography is also a starting point for an optical scanning project that will eventually result in these publications being available from two linked websites, one at the University of Central Oklahoma, and the other at the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. Two other depositories will be "loaning partners" when we begin to scan these titles, the Linscheid Library at East Central University, and the Bizzell Library at the University of Oklahoma.

As these publications become available from our websites we will send the web addresses out to you via GOVDOC-L.

In the meantime, if you want to borrow any of these documents, every title is available from the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, U.S. Government Information Division (except for Item #6, the Geographic Atlases, which are too fragile to loan). We will substitute microfiche or photocopies for some of the paper copies that aren’t in good shape.

So how about producing a bibliography of important Federal publications about your state? That should be easy for the original thirteen colonies!

The entire text of "46" is available at:

http://www.odl.state.ok.us/usinfo/pubs/46questions.pdf

Roberta Shaffer
Executive Director
Special Libraries Association
1700 18th St NW
Washington, DC 20009-2514
Phone: 202-234-4700 202-265-9317 (fax)
roberta@sla.org

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