----------------------------Original message---------------------------- THE FOLLOWING IS BEING POSTED ON GOVDOC-L, MAPS-L, AND LAW-LIB. ----------------------------------------------------------------- | T H E D U P O N T C I R C L E R E P O R T E R | | | | An Informal Newsletter for the Federal | | Depository Library Community | | June 26, 1993 No. 10 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS: * FALL CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INFORMATION PLANNED FOR CHICAGO * ALA/GODORT AD HOC COMMITTEE ON RESTRUCTURING FDLP * CHICAGO CONFERENCE COORDINATING COMMITTEE * DUPONT CIRCLE DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE VIA FTP AND GOPHER ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FALL CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INFORMATION PLANNED FOR CHICAGO Plans are underway for a working conference on the Future of Federal Government Information to be held October 29-31, 1993, in Chicago, Illinois, immediately prior to the Fall meeting of the Depository Library Council. The conference will be open to all members of the depository library community. The members of the Dupont Circle Group and the ALA/GODORT Ad Hoc Committee on Restructuring the FDLP will serve as a coordinating committee for the Chicago conference. The purpose of this conference will be to bring together representatives from all types of depository libraries in order to develop and articulate in writing: (1) the assumptions, values, mission statement, and goals for a depository program; (2) short- term proposals for improving the FDLP; and (3) one or more long-term plans for a new government information dissemination system, including action plans for implementation. The goal of the conference is to develop a consensus document on the future of Federal government information which can speak for the Federal depository library community. Following the conference, the document will be widely circulated to depository libraries, library organizations, and other interested groups and stakeholders. A letter announcing this meeting and a registration form will be sent to all 1,405 depositories via depository library shipment boxes during the week of July 26. Registration deadline for the conference is September 24, 1993. (The text of the letter sent to depository libraries announcing the Chicago conference and the registration form will be posted in the next issue of the Reporter.) For more information, please contact Gary Cornwell at the University of Florida or Julia Wallace at the University of Minnesota, or any other member of the conference coordinating committee. ******************************************************************* ALA/GODORT AD HOC COMMITTEE ON RESTRUCTURING THE FDLP An ad hoc committee of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the American Library Association (ALA) was formed during the recent ALA annual conference in New Orleans. This ad hoc committee is to: (1) develop a report/position paper on restructuring the Federal Depository Library Program, due September 1, 1993; and (2) participate as members of GODORT at the Conference on the Future of Federal Government Information to be held October 29-31, 1993, in Chicago. Committee members include: Bill Sudduth, University of Richmond (chair) Dan Barkley, Wake Forest University Raeann Dossett, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Linda Kopecky, Sangamon State University David Larkin, University of Texas-El Paso Alexandra Lutz, New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Mary Martin, Claremont Colleges Andrea Sevetson, University of California, Berkeley Anne Watts, St. Louis Public Library Cindi Wolff, University of Oklahoma ***************************************************************** CHICAGO CONFERENCE COORDINATING COMMITTEE The members of the Dupont Circle Group and the ALA/GODORT Ad hoc Committee on Restructuring the Federal Depository Library Program will serve as the coordinating committee for the Chicago Conference on the Future of Federal Government Information, to be held October 29-31, 1993. (See above for a list of members of the GODORT Ad hoc committee.) Four additional members have been added to the Dupont Circle Group to assist in the planning and coordination of the fall Chicago Conference: Fran Buckley, Detroit Public Library Lois Mills, Western Illinois University Library, Emeritus Sandy Morton-Schwalb, Special Library Association Sandy Peterson, Yale University Other members of the Dupont Circle Group include: Gary Cornwell, University of Florida (co-chair) Julia Wallace, University of Minnesota (co-chair) Duncan Aldrich, University of Nevada, Reno Tom Andersen, California State Library Diane Garner, Harvard University Carol Gordon, Milwaukee Public Library Steve Hayes, University of Notre Dame Sally Holterhoff, Valparaiso University School of Law Linda Kennedy, University of California, Davis Ridley Kessler, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Melissa Lamont, University of Connecticut Sandee McAninch, University of Kentucky Kay Melvin, Patent and Trademark Office Daniel O'Mahony, Brown University John Shuler, Colgate University Jack Sulzer, Pennsylvania State University Susan Tulis, American Association of Law Libraries Carol Watts, NOAA/National Envir. Satellite & Data Info. Services *********************************************************************** DUPONT CIRCLE DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE VIA FTP AND GOPHER Electronic copies of the Dupont Circle Reporter and discussion draft documents are now available via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or Gopher, thanks to the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). Issues 1-9 of the Dupont Circle Reporter are currently in a single text file (approximately 144KB) at the CNI FTP site in a sub-directory for the Dupont Circle Group. To access this file via FTP: ftp ftp.cni.org login: anonymous password: [your e-mail address as password] cd /ARL/dupont.circle.group ascii get Reporter The Reporter is also accessible via Gopher. You can select the "Coalition for Networked Information" gopher from the "All the Gopher Servers in the World" menu on a public access gopher, or access the CNI gopher directly: gopher gopher.cni.org 70 Select: Association of Research Libraries FTP Archives The Dupont Circle Group The Dupont Circle Reporter (Newsletter) All nine previous issues of the Dupont Circle Reporter are presently accessible electronically. New issues and other material will be added as they are published or made available. Many thanks to Craig Summerhill and CNI for their cooperation in making this service possible. Dupont Circle Reporter/Number 10/July 26, 1993 #######################################################################