-------- Original Message -------- Subject: GPO's National Bibliography Plan - Comment Period Extended Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:51:49 -0400 From: Etkin, Cynthia L. <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ This message was cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication. =========================================== Below is a summary of the National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications: Initial Planning Statement. Development and implementation of this plan will benefit from public comments. GPO is seeking comments from the Federal depository community and from those who rely upon Federal depositories as a source of information. So that a broader audience might be reached, please fell free to share this message with colleagues or forward it to other appropriate discussion lists. The comment period has been extended until September 7, 2004. Comments on this document may be sent to me, Judy Russell, Superintendent of Documents, [log in to unmask] The National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications: Initial Planning Statement, June 18, 2004, on GPO Access at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/about/reports/natbib0604.pdf. To fulfill its statutory mission under 44 U.S.C. Secs. 1710-1711, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) plans to develop a comprehensive and authoritative National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications. Synopsis GPO's is examining ways to improve the comprehensiveness of our cataloging and metadata programs, to enhance the usability of GPO's bibliographic products and services, to operate a standards-based national library quality program, to demonstrate GPO leadership in the bibliographic services arena, and to enhance the public's ability to identify and locate U.S. Government publications. WHAT IS THE NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS? The National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications (NB) will be a comprehensive catalog containing descriptions and locations of U.S. Government unclassified publications in all formats. It is GPO's goal to expand its cataloging initiatives to comply fully with statutory requirements, to increase the visibility and use of Government information products, and to develop a premier destination for information searchers. Functionally, the National Bibliography will be the principal application of the GPO's new Integrated Library System (ILS), Ex Libris' Aleph 500, when the ILS is implemented. The ILS' metasearch function will provide the capability to search across a distributed set of non-homogeneous metadata resources from other institutions and display a combined result set. The public face of the ILS will be GPO's Online Public Access Catalog. Initially GPO's core National Bibliography database will consist of GPO-produced bibliographic records representing titles cataloged from 1976 to the present. Once the ILS initial implementation is completed, projected for March 2004, GPO plans to expand the National Bibliography database by adding pre-1976 records, records created by cooperative cataloging partners and other institutions. Judy Russell Judith C. Russell ([log in to unmask]) Managing Director, Information Dissemination (Superintendent of Documents) U.S. Government Printing Office Phone: 202-512-0571 Fax: 202-512-1434