GoPIG Minutes July 28, 2000 UNC In attendance: Chris Brown (recorder), Susan Simmons, Sharon Partridge, Gary Morell, Dallas Marshall, Rob Richards, Katherine Powell, Fred Schmidt, Lisa Nickum, Tim Byrne, Louise Treff-Gangler, Mark Anderson 1. Tour. Mark Anderson gave us a tour of Michener Library. 2. Discussed new B class (Items 1150 3. Minutes: approved as corrected. 4. Next Meetings: Sept 8 at Colorado College; Nov. 3 at DPL We could possibly meet in December at Front Range C.C., Rocky Mtn. Reading Room 5. ALA Conference Report Louise: * FDLP Desktop is up. Same link as Admin. Page: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/ * Before discarding titles such as Cumulated Index Medicus (because of online availability), give list first to Tim. * U.S. Institute of Peace publications are now completely online: http://www.usip.org/pubs.html * Some CD-ROMs will disappear: NTDB will disappear mid-Oct.; USA Trade: maybe this can become an Alliance subscription * Some titles will be online only. Ex: Nutrition and Your Health * 106th Congress: last Congress for which we will receive microfiche bills * GPO Access contains over 109,000 e-titles and over 15,000 databases * OMB has directed all federal agencies not to use cookies on their Web sites * Census Bureau will digitize older census enumerations. * Census Bureau, GAO, and NRC are ensuring that there will be permanent access to their electronic publications * Anytime something is gone from a gov Web site, e-mail the Webmaster and ask for the electronic version * 48,000 PURLs assigned by GPO; 10,000 URLs in GPO; 16 URLs GPO has completely given up on. * Instead of using # (bookmark in URL), use %23. * Report URL/PURL problems to Theodore Fosse (tdefosse@gpo.gov) * All titles formerly in Browse Electronic Titles (BET) are now in MOCAT )except for 7. * All titles appearing in New Electronic Titles (http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/net/) have been cataloged. * There was a question about cataloging different formats on the same record (ex: paper, computer file). Answer was to follow CONSER policy. * GAO will stop distribution of fiche. * Definition of serial was officially changed by the Committee on Cataloging: Descriptive Access. See: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/personal/jca/ccda/001-min.html#M:672 * "Computer File" changes to "Electronic Resource" Lisa (Legislation Committee): * Committee had four meetings at ALA2000 * National Action Alert Network (NAAN) it trying to get volunteers for different states. Lisa will pass on Tim Byrne's name as Colo. representative. * NCLIS has six more months to study NTIS. Six resolutions are endorsed by the committee. 6. CLA Conference Our program is Sept. 15, 4:00-5:15: "Hidden Websites: Providing and Enhancing Access to Useful Colorado State & Local Government Resources". Saturday is the Godort Business Meeting (5:00-6:00) where we will be electing new people. 7. Our June meeting in Alamosa was cancelled. Maureen Crocker (Colorado State Publications), who was scheduled to speak, still wants to present something to us. Lisa will invite her to the Nov. 3 GoPIG meeting at DPL for an afternoon conference. 8. The Five-State Depository Library Meeting will be held Aug. 15-18 in Flagstaff, AZ (http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rse/y2kdoc.htm) 9.Weeding Government Documents Discussed ways of generating electronic lists to try to coordinate weeding (if this is possible) 10. Unfinished Business Tim suggested that we send GPO a letter when we discover uncataloged materials (such as the online 1997 Economic Census). 11. New Business (none) 12. Library Significant Events * Wyoming: Katherine Powell. Interviewing for new docs person; new OPAC will be available in August * CSU: Fred Schmidt. Evaluating gift collections. There is a cooperative project between CSU and UNC for gifts. * Mines: Lisa Nickum. They have a new computer services librarian. Endeavor came up in June. Search for a new reference librarian continues. * DU: Chris Brown. New govdocs workstation contains "ghosted" versions of all FBIS CD-ROMs, and link to World News Connection. Working well. Chris going to Japan in Aug/Sept. to do work with UNCRD and US Embassy. * Jeffco: Sharon Partridge. New Jeffco library opening: Belmar Library * Broomfield P.L.: Susan Simmons. III is now online. Interviews for Asst. Dir. New library plans approved. * Front Range C.C., Rocky Mtn. Reading Room: Gary Morell. New closure deadline, tentatively Dec. 2005. There is an article in Westword about Rocky Flats: http://www.westword.com/issues/2000-08-03/feature2.html/page1.html * CU Law: Rob Richards. Just completed item selection. Reference librarian position is open. Acquisition position is open. Rob also discussed an AALL program that covers administrative decisions. Below his message is inserted into the minutes: As we discussed at the GOPIG meeting on Friday (thanks for hosting us, Mark!), here are the URLs for the administrative decisions materials developed by Barbie Selby at U of Virginia Law and Paul Arrigo at Washburn U Law: * The speakers, and soon the presentation slides, from their July 2000 AALL program on admin decisions are/will be listed at: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/gd/philly.html * Barbie mantains the Federal Administrative Decisions & Other Actions page at: http://www.law.virginia.edu/admindec and * Paul maintains the Agency Index, which links to agencies' homepages, publications, organizational charts, forms, administrative decisions/opinions, and manuals: http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/executive5m.html * Auraria: Louise Treff-Gangler. Redesigning Web site. Began construction on general computer lab. New govdocs staff by Fall. Getting hand-me-down furniture from UCCS. * CU Boulder: Tim Byrne. Received reference question from the History Channel re: Rocky Flats.