11.7 Other Types of Collaboration with LSCM

If your depository library is unable to enter into a formal partnership with LSCM, there are other opportunities to work with LSCM to improve the FDLP by assisting with special and ongoing projects and tasks and fulfilling the requirements of the FDLP. Recent examples include:

• Updating your depository’s information in the Federal Depository Library Directory (a requirement of Federal depository libraries);
• Working with LSCM staff to develop a Web-based training session
• Promote programs at your depository via the FDLP Desktop;
• Testing LSCM’s new Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC);
• Participating in the updating of the new Federal Depository Library Handbook;
• Evaluating the GPO Access disaster recovery site;
• Submitting fugitive publications to LostDocs using the “Fugitive Publications/Lostdocs” category on askGPO; and
• Having at least one staff member at the depository library subscribe to the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed from the FDLP Desktop News and Updates to keep current on news and issues in the FDLP program.

Your depository is required to complete the Biennial Survey. This is an important resource for LSCM. The Biennial Survey serves to:

• Provide LSCM with information about conditions in individual depository libraries;
• Identifies trends; and
• Assists LSCM with planning for the FDLP.