11.1 What’s New or Important

• Your Federal depository library may wish to establish a formal partnership with Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) to increase access to or to provide service in the use of government information resources.
• To help you to understand and to consider formal partnerships with LSCM, partnership web pages have been created on the new Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) Desktop.
• There are many benefits to formal partnering with LSCM to include demonstrating to your administration the value of your depository collection and your expertise in providing content and services.
• Your Federal depository library, including other entities, may formally partner with LSCM when you have a project or service that would benefit the depository community.
• All formal partnerships MUST be documented as written proposals to LSCM; LSCM, management, in turn, reviews each proposal based on a set of criteria and makes a determination regarding acceptance.
• Accepted proposals are documented as Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) or other appropriate agreement format between the various parties.
• The FDLP is a system of collaborating libraries dedicated to public access to and services in their use of Federal Government information resources; depository libraries are expected to cooperate with LSCM, their regional library, and neighboring depositories.