Minutes: Government Publications Interest Group & The Wyoming Depository Library Consortium Friday, June 8, 2001 Meeting at Wyoming Supreme Court and State Library Building, Cheyenne, Wyoming Present: Tim Byrne (CU Boulder); Chris Brown (University of Denver), recorder; Ann Fair (Wyoming Supreme Court Law Library); Alta Hepner (Wyoming State Library); Erin Kinney (Wyoming State Library); Dianne Koshak (Adams State College); Yolanda Maloney (CU Boulder); Carol Brown (Western Wyoming College); Venice Beske (Wyoming State Library); Lesley Boughton (Wyoming State Librarian); Emily Sieger (Wyoming State Library); Erin Cassity (Univ. of Wyoming); Beth Downing (Univ. of Wyoming); Gary Morell (Front Range Comm. Coll.); Katherine Powell (Univ. of Wyoming); Rob Richards (CU Law); Louise Treff-Gangler (Auraria Library); Fred Schmidt (CSU) 1. Tour of the Wyoming State Library. 2. Next Meeting: July 27 at US Air Force Academy, near Colo. Springs; Sept. 7 at CU Law tentative). 3. No minutes from last meeting (Alamosa). See more below under 8. 4. Wyoming Report * Erin Kinney gave an update on Go WYLD, the partal site for Wyoming information. Begun in Jan. 2000, it contains links to statewide databases, regional library catalogs, and Wyoming Internet content. 770 links to external pages are divided up into 23 categories. http://gowyld.net/ * Emily Sieger gave an overview of Wyoming State documents and the depository program. 7 copies of each doc are required to be sent to the State Library for archiving and distribution. * Venice Beske have an overview of Federal documents at the State Library. In 1990 they gave up their regional depository status. After that Utah State was their Regional and now CU Boulder is. Wyo. State Library is now doing retrospective cataloging. 5. Legislative Update. Discussed the E-Government Act of 2001, "the Lieberman Bill" - S.803 Status: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:S.803: The bill ignores the GPO for political reasons, but perhaps this is the best answer. Better than NCLIS bill. Separating the FDLP away from printing may be beneficial. S.803 locates the new office in the OMB. 6. Future of GPO / Electronic Access issues * Discussed draft of article by Karrie Peterson, Eliabeth Cowell, and Jim Jacobs, " 'A Prologue to a Farce or Tragedy'?: Government Documents at the Crossroads" forthcoming in American Libraries. * Tim gave background on last Fall's DLC meeting and the actions of Peterson, Jacobs, and Byrne. Tim's presentation on permanent public access at the Regionals meeting. Tim is on a committee to discuss distribution of electronic files. * Discussed LOCKSS http://lockss.stanford.edu/ * GPO has problem of separation of powers: What right does the GPO (legislative) have to enforce Title 44. Tim noted that INS v. Chadha (42 U.S. 919) reaffirmed the separation of powers issue. But the Lieberman bill places the agency in the Executive Branch, so that separation of powers is not an issue. 7. AALL Fugitive Documents Rob Richards reported on a new committee of 10 people within the American Association of Law Libraries responsible for searching for fugitive federal docs, esp. those related to legal matters. Agencies currently being covered include the EPA, CIA, State Dept., SEC, INS, FTC, and Browse Electronic Titles. 10 fugitive docs have been identified so far. The committee will report these docs of govdoc-l two times per month. Rob will also provide a URL for a future Website. 8. Alamosa Meeting Report A brief report was given on the presentations given in Alamosa (Tim Byrne: Rocky Flats project; Rob Richards: UCITA and licensing issues; Chris Brown: URL Addition and Maintenance. 9. Unfinished Business: none. 10. New Business: Chris Brown reported on the CLA Executive Board Meeting. The current Colo. Govdocs Roundtable must decide if we will become a Division (with officers, bylaws, and a budget), or just an Interest Group (no officers, no bylaws, no budget). We will discuss this further in a future GoPIG meeting. 11. Library Significant Events. * Emily Sieger (Wyo. State Lib.): leading an initiative to bring in GIS software (ESRI). * Erin Cassity: new at Univ. of Wyo. * Beth Downing (U. Wyo.): nothing * Gary Morell (FRCC): DOE never sent the software to enable searching of other catalogs. Gary will have to do more original cataloging than expected. GoPIG officially requested that Gary send his original cataloging to OCLC. * Katherine Powell (U. Wyo.): Library Dean left, so a new search is under way. Temp. director is from the Sociology Dept. Govdocs librarian position is open (31-33K). * Rob Richards (CU Law): New reference librarian hired from Holm Roberts and Owen. Director will be new AALL president. * Louise Treff-Gangler (Auraria): There is a vacancy for Asst. Director for HR and Budget (Admin. Services). Louise is acting Asst. Director, and is also in charge of the search committee. She does govdocs in her spare time! * Fred Schmidt (CSU): Winding down from flood 4 years ago. Asking for more temp. reference librarians, since they have to teach hundreds of classes. Continuing with retro. Cataloging of docs. National Geographic material has been received. Continuing work on digitization projects. * Chris Brown (DU): Michelle Kyner (former LAII), is new LAIII. LAII position is closing today. * Ann Fair (Wyo. Supreme Court Lib.): partnering with Okla. to put all Supreme Ct. cases online. http://wyomcases.courts.state.wy.us/applications/oscn/index.asp Ann's position will be open in Oct.; she is retiring. * Alta Hepner (Wyo. State Lib.): trying to keep up with ANTS. * Erin Kinney (Wyo. State Lib.): GoWYLD has been spidered by Google. * Dianne Koshak (Adams State): migrating to III. * Yolanda Maloney (CU Boulder Engineering; Broomfield Public too): open positions at Broomfield Public Library * Carol Brown (Western Wyoming College): nothing * Venice Beske (Wyo. State Lib.): Intellectual Property Librarian position open. Zero-based item selection started. From July 1 they will load Marcive ongoing and retro records. 12. Meeting adjourned.