(This post originally appeared on Free Government Information.) Last month, the Government Publishing Office (GPO) released the National Plan for Access to U.S. Government Information: A Framework for a User-centric Service Approach to Permanent Public Access. The National Plan is the culmination of four years of study and planning activities c... Read more 18 Mar 2016 - 10 minute read
(This post originally appeared on Free Government Information.) (Background here: http://freegovinfo.info/node/10285) At the 2015 Depository Library Council meeting on October 20th, Mary Alice Baish, Superintendent of Documents, informed the depository library community that in July, GPO had formally requested permission from the Joint Committ... Read more 12 Nov 2015 - 5 minute read
(This post originally appeared on Free Government Information.) In April 2014, GPO presented a draft policy (also known as an “SOD” or “Superintendent of Documents Public Policy Statement”) that would create a mechanism for Regional depository libraries to request permission to substitute specified tangible holdings for authenticated electronic... Read more 08 Sep 2015 - 11 minute read
(This post originally appeared on Free Government Information.) I was fortunate to be able to attend the 2015 #CritlibSF Unconference, hosted at the University of San Francisco’s Gleeson Library in conjunction with the American Library Association’s Annual Conference last month. While the discussion predominantly, although by no means exclusive... Read more 21 Jul 2015 - 7 minute read