GoPIG Minutes
May 19, 2000
CU Boulder

Present: Chris Brown (DU; Recorder); Katherine Powell (UW); Fred Schmidt
(CSU); Monica Davis (CC); Julie Jones-Eddy; Louise Treff-Gangler; Peggy
Jobe; Sharon Partridge; Susan Simmons; Tim Byrne; Gary Morrell; Yolanda
Maloney; Dallas Marshall; Dianne Koshak; Rob Jackson; Leanne Walther; Carol
Perkins; Mark Anderson

1. Announcements
No announcements

2. Minutes
Minutes were approved as distributed

3. Next Meeting and Upcoming Meetings
June 15-16 at Adams State in Alamosa (we will carpool down on the 15th)
Note: this meeting never happened!
July 28 UNC (with Broncos training camp)
Sept. 8 Colorado College
Nov. 3 DPL

4. Tour
Tim lead the group on a tour of the CU Government Publications areas.

5. GPO Appropriations Cuts
The Senate committee added money to the appropriations bill. 4% added to GPO
’s request. We still need to communicate with our reps.
Larry Romans has sent out a sample letter on govdoc-l.

6. Tangible products vs. electronic only
Tim discussed the trend to favor electronic only products instead of
tangible products for depositories.

7. Library Significant Events
Chris Brown (DU): new govdocs Web site coming soon with 600 Web pages
Gary Morrell (Rocky Flats): inventory, cataloging
Yolanda Maloney (CU Boulder Engineering): serials cancellation
Diane Koshak (Adams State): passed out brochures about Alamosa
Rob Jackson (DPL): drop-off in people coming in; fewer reference Qs;
solution: offer programs that have nothing to do with the library
Leanne Walther (CU Boulder): Council of Europe depository; cataloging lots
of treaties; CU is the only official depository of Council of Europe docs
Carol Perkins (DU Law): Law school moving in several years to DU’s
University Park campus
Katherine Powell (UW): name for new OPAC: Ferret, to go live on July 5; 8
applicants for head of documents dept.
Fred Schmidt (CSU):  Reference usage also declining; Information Commons:
merging electronic information center with reference; Reference people
provide instruction in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel; university is turning
more and more to library to provide instruction.
Monica Davis (CC): still working on library degree; downloading
retrospective records from Marcive
Julie Jones-Eddy (CC): No students to work; she may be processing docs this
summer; new science librarian; systems person just quit
Louise Treff-Gangler (Auraria): Marcive cleanup; statistics also down;
possibly building a computer lab in library over summer
Sharon Partridge (Jeffco): New govdocs page on Web site; tax forms bring
people in
Susan Simmons (Broomfield): Docs position open