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- GPO Announces New Partnership with GAO
published on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:05:55 +0100
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to provide permanent public access to the GAO Reports and GAO Comptroller General Decisions databases that are available on the GAO Web site. The GAO Reports database (http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/repandtest.html) contains reports on audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of Federal programs conducted by GAO. The content in this database dates back to 1970 and earlier. The Comptroller General Decisions database (http://www.gao.gov/legal/decisions.html) contains decisions and opinions issued by the Comptroller General in areas of Federal law such as appropriations, bid protests, and Federal agency rulemaking. It also contains historic material dating back to 1970. GAO is actively working on digitizing its legacy collection so historic material will continue to be added to the two databases. The content contained in the GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions databases is currently duplicated on GPO Access. With a partnership to ensure permanent public access to the content on the GAO Web site, this duplication is no longer necessary. GPO will maintain archives of both databases as they were at the time the agreement was signed, but no new content will be added to the GPO Access versions of... - OPAL for Everyone: Share Your Knowledge
published on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:44:41 +0100
Depository library staff are encouraged to present educational and training sessions for the benefit of the depository community through OPAL, a Web conferencing service. GPO welcomes proposals on any aspect of U.S. Government information, Federal Depository Library Program issues, or depository library operations and management. Most GPO OPAL sessions are recorded and archived at OPAL online-archives (http://www.opal-online.org/archiveGPO.htm), allowing depository staff who cannot travel to depository conferences the opportunity to share their expertise with a large group of their peers. Two of the most popular OPAL presentations to date include “The Conservation Kitchen: Basic Tools for Any Preservation Recipe,” presented on May 20, 2008 by Diane Hutchins and Marcea Horst from the Washington State Library and “Cooking with Content - Creating Successful OPAL Presentations,” presented in October 2008 by Diane Hutchins from the Washington State Library. Both of these presentations can be viewed in the archive. So if you are already doing training at your library, or if you have an idea for an educational session, let us know! Just fill out the Online Educational Program Proposal Form (learning/opalproposal.html). For more information on OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries), see OPAL online (http://www.opal-online.org). - International Scholar Studying the FDLP at GPO
published on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:23:36 +0100
A research scholar from Japan is spending a year at GPO and the Library of Congress to learn how the U.S. government makes the documents of its democracy available to the public. Professor Nobuhiro Igawa hopes to take what he learns at GPO and propose a similar program for the citizens of Japan. Professor Igawa is from the International University of Kagoshima, Japan and will study the FDLP. “I am honored to study and learn how the United States disseminates government information to its citizens,” said Professor Nobuhiro Igawa. “If I could introduce a system similar to the Federal Depository Library Program in Japan, it would benefit all citizens who want to learn more about government information.” Professor Igawa's visit is being facilitated by the Library of Congress, where he has already performed some analysis on production, dissemination and use of federal public information in the Library’s Government Documents Section. Following his studies at GPO, he will return for further research at the Library. GPO's Library Services and Content Management staff will provide introductory and advanced topics for his research. In addition to conducting his own research, Professor Igawa will also study the many challenges facing the FDLP and provide a fresh... - Promote the FDLP at Your Library with the Easy As FDL Video
published on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:01:00 +0100
http://media.fdlp.gov/easyasfdl/easyasfdl-hr.flv|cover1.jpg Using our theme, Easy As FDL: Free Information, Dedicated Service, and Limitless Possibilities , this video demonstrates what makes Federal depository libraries so unique and essential to the American public. People who are dedicated to and knowledgeable about the FDLP were interviewed and asked to express their opinions about Federal depository libraries and how the FDLP benefits the American public. This video is available for you to distribute as you choose. Post it to your library’s Web site, various social media sites, social networking sites, or in your presentations. You may also ask local government offices and educational institutions to place it on their Web sites. Read on to download the videos and learn how to share them on the Web. - LSCM FY2008 Year in Review
published on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100
LSCM is pleased to announce the release of the 1st annual LSCM FY2008 Year in Review. The LSCM Year in Review highlights LSCM’s major accomplishments of FY2008 and will serve to map LSCM's work for the future. The Year in Review discusses topics including digitization, strategic planning, the ILS, authentication, automated metadata extraction, marketing, the FDLP Desktop, the Federal Depository Library Handbook, and more. Library Services Content Management (LSCM): The FY2008 Year in Review 374.93 Kb This document will be distributed to all libraries under item 0556-C and will appear on an upcoming shipping list.