GoPIG Minutes January 21, 2000 Auraria Library, Denver Present: Chris Brown (DU); Susan Simmons (Broomfield Public); Sharon Partridge (JCPL); McKinley Sielaff (U. Wyo.); Katherine Powell (U. Wyo.); Heidi Campbell-Dolinar (U. Wyo.); Linda Nickum (Mines); Gary Morell (Broomfield Public); Louise Treff-Gangler (Auraria); Dallas Marshall (CU-Law); Fred Schmidt (CSU); Carol Perkins (DU-Law); Rob Richards (DU-Law) 1. Introductions and announcements. Debbie Hollis (State and Foreign Docs., CU Boulder) will take a temp position as Head of Special Collections; LeAnne Walter will take Debbie's position. McKinley will be going to the University of Richmond March 16; Wyoming will be hiring to fill her position. Auraria has many openings, including Gov. Pubs. 2. Louise Treff-Gangler gave a tour of Auraria Library. 3. Minutes of Oct. 29 meeting were approved. Next meeting will be at DU. Tentative schedule as follows: Feb. 25 DU March 24 Mines April 28 CSU 4. ALA Report Louise gave an update on the GPO update meeting. * Michael DiMario noted that printing requests are down; electronic items are more than 45% of what GPO distributes * GPO's position in NTIS: that the GPO should have a role in NTIS. * Fran Buckley said that requests for consumer information (from Pueblo) have declined. * Sales through GPO are declining. * Sales publications will be listed in Books in Print * Davis Bacon issuances will be online in March * Fran is talking with Amazon and B&N about partnership * The December Biennial Report on GPO Access in available online only: http://ww1.access.gpo.gov/GPOAccess/sitesearch/su_docs_aces/biennial/index.html * Ben's Guide (http://bensguide.gpo.gov/) contains tips on using GPO Access that are excellent not just for kids, but for adults, too. * The FDLP Electronic Collection consists of four areas. See: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/ec/about-ec.html * An additional archival server is being set up. PURLs will be directed to an active agency site. When no longer an active site, PURL will be directed to archive. * PubScience discussed: http://pubsci.osti.gov/ Lisa discussed legislation about NTIS * Larry Romans, GODORT Chair, introduced a resolution on closure of NTIS * GPO currently only agency able to take over NTIS duties * Secretary of Commerce wants to close it * Legislative Committee also talked about National Action Alert Network (NAAN) Tim discussed GODORT Cataloging Committee * URLs and PURLs discussion * Moving original URL into 530 field, stating it was replaced with a PURL * Need for a list of all affected records, but not enough staff to support this * Tim will send to GovDoc-L and AutoCat a list of changed URLs * Of the 10,000 current links in MOCAT, 4,000 have PURLs Louise discussed the following: * the Country Studies: discontinued by Defense Dept. * Dispatch (State Dept) discontinued 12/99 * Background Notes: GPO will maintain * AskLPS: please include e-mail so they can respond * 31,000 cataloging backlog 5. Tim: CU Boulder is a depository for the World Trade Organization (WTO) 6. JAKE: Great resource for finding electronic versions of periodicals http://jake.med.yale.edu/ 7. Discard Lists 1999: 176 discard lists received by Tim; 205 distributed Guideline: confine list to "one shelf": people will be more likely to read and act up them USV: had to reduce current collection by 20-25% Moetona Public, Wyo.: Got rid of a lot of docs Otero C.C.: dropped depository status Microfiche: don't have to type up lists of mf 8. Office of Foreign Assests Control (OFAC) Trade Sanctions: non-depository. 9. Alliance. The GovPubs database continues to exist. Tim attended a meeting of Prospector directors. The statement that a Docs librarian should be on that committee has disappeared. 10. III SCAT tables. Those of use using Innovative OPACs are going to share SCAT table information for SuDocs. 11. Old Business. None 12 New Business. * CLA wants to set up calendar. Do we want a Round Table meeting? * Spring Program: none planned * We could possible have a meeting in the Western Slope area. * Diane Coshak, Adams State, said she could host a GoPIG Meeting in Alamosa * Conference Program for this year: "State Documents on the Web". Possible names to present: Barbara Willis, Maureen Crocker. Send Lisa suggestions for State Web sites. * Sharon Partridge discussed census logistics 13. Library News We went around the table and discussed issues and happenings at our respective libraries.