Of interest to our group ... forwarded email from GodDocs-L -a- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: USGS Vault - opinions, experiences? Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:37:39 +0000 From: Laluzerne, Anthony <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Discussion of Government Document Issues <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] To all, Just to add to this conversation, here is text from their FAQ: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/#faq "The Publications Warehouse would like to be a complete collection of old and new publications by the USGS. All publications, regardless of age, should have a citation (and hopefully soon, an electronic scan) within the Publications Warehouse. For out of date items, we try to direct people to the new publications by adding a "supersede" notice and link to the older publication pointing to the new publication. If the old publication doesn't have a new publication it can directly link to, we can't add a supersede notice. Also, we don't want to delete anything from the Publications Warehouse as we're trying to provide these old publications to people who are doing research and may need the old version of a report. These people may also be working on verifying citations from another report or some other work that requires the original publications. We are always open to hear when a publication has been superseded, so please feel free to contact us via the form at the Publication! s Warehouse Contact Us page (?) if you know of a publication that has been superseded." Tony La Luzerne Associate Academic Librarian/ Library Services Assistant - UWGB Cofrin Library 920-465-2785 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of Government Document Issues [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jill Vassilakos-Long Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 2:06 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: USGS Vault - opinions, experiences? Hello Everyone, We're moving our USGS Water Supply Papers to the basement because of low use. We're looking at the USGS "vault" http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/ for offering access to the electronic copies. The term "vault" implies permanence. It seems likely that even a very new webmaster would hesitate before deleting its contents to improve the speed of the server. I'm thinking/hoping that we can treat this as stable? What do others think? There are no current plans to de-accession any of the water supply papers. The water archivist and I agree both regard "preservation digitizing" as a process to create electronic copies for frequently used materials that will help us minimize handling of our paper documents (and thus preserve the paper documents). However, it's not our library and people always want space. At some point anything that's been relegated to the basement because of low use is going to be questioned. I thought I'd be pro-active and gather information on the perceived stability of copies in the vault before the question comes up. Sincerely, Jill Vassilakos-Long California State University, San Bernardino Special Collections and Government Information (909)537-7541 [log in to unmask]