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| T H E D U P O N T C I R C L E R E P O R T E R |
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| An Informal Newsletter for the Federal |
| Depository Library Community |
| June 26, 1993 No. 10 |
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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