GoPIG Minutes Oct 5, 2001 Colorado School of Mines In attendance: Chris Brown (DU), Lisa Nickum (CSM), Sharon Partridge (JCPL), Mark Anderson (UNC), Dianne Koshak (Adams State), Yolanda Maloney (CU), Louise Treff-Gangler (Auraria), Fred Schmidt (CSU), Carol Perkins (DU Law), Ignacio Ferrer (DU Law), Tim Byrne (CU) presiding. 1&5. Lisa gave us a brief tour of the Mines Documents and Maps sections and we went to a computer lab for a demo of Energy Citations. www.osti.gov/energycitations . This new database includes the information from the Atomic Energy Commission, the Energy Research Development Administration and the Department of Energy from 1948 to present. It also includes many non-governmental sources such as journal articles from all over the world. Note that the search link is way at the top of the site. Clicking on the icons will just give you information about the agencies. It is slow but Tim was able to use it on a search for Rocky Flats to find documents that CU hadn't known it owned. Advanced search gives you some date limiters and the ability to search specific fields. We also looked at EnergyFiles , the Virtual Library of Energy Science and Technology containing over 500 databases and Web sites containing information and resources pertaining to energy science and technology, with an emphasis on the physical sciences. It includes some surprise databases such as the NOAA Photographic Collection and Geologic Maps. 2. Chris announced that he has added catalog records to Prospector for the Hart-Rudman reports. 3. Minutes of Sept. 7, 2001 had not be distributed. 4. Nov. 9 at the new Broomfield Public Library 10:00-1:00 Dec. 7 JCPL Jan. 11 CU Tim will invite the State Archivist, Terry Ketelsen, to a future meeting. 6. Before we talked about the Right to Know, Tim passed around screen captures for some fairly obscure agencies that have become very important. The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection published "Critical foundations : protecting America's infrastructures" (PR 42.8:IN 3/C 86). The website is . Among the publications available is "Common Defense Against Uncommon Threats: The Federal Role in Critical Infrastructure Protection." The Critical Infrastructures Assurance Office has published "Practices for securing critical information assets (PR 42.8:IN 3/C 86/2). The Critical Infrastructures Assurance Office website is . Overseas Security Advisory Council site is at www.ds-osac.org . It includes travel warnings and cyber threat. is the website for the National Infrastructure Protection Center. It includes a publication called "Cyber Notes". Its mission is to support security and information system professionals with timely information on cyber vulnerabilities, malicious scripts, information security trends, virus information, and other critical infrastructure-related best practices. The latest issue includes a chart of computer systems, their vulnerabilities and available "cures." Tim has sent these sites to GPO to be cataloged. Tim also shared a term he'd run into, "DDoS" (which works fine as a search term) which stands for Distributed Denial of Services, i.e. server sabotage or disruption of telecommunication networks. Back to Right to Know... there is a report from OMB called A Post-September 11 Attack on Right-to-Know at . Tim said that he uses the Air Force definition of "Information Warfare: any action to deny, exploit, corrupt, or destroy the enemy's information and its functions; protecting ourselves against those actions; and exploiting our own military information functions. Information warfare is any attack against an information function, regardless of the means. Bombing a telephone switching facility is information warfare. So is destroying the switching facility's software. . Tim stressed the added importance of the concept of distributed data and FDLP's function as a safety net. He said George Barnam has expressed some support for Tim's idea. This led to a discussion about the attack on the EPA site information about toxic chemicals. Tim pointed out that many of the same companies that have fought against making the information public for free have used this opportunity to shut it down. Tim pointed out that the information is widely available from other sources. He suggested we read an article called Agencies Scrub Web Sites Of Sensitive Chemical Data at 8. Discard lists are seriously backed up and Tim estimates that he has over 200 in the pipeline. He reminded everyone that it is better to send many short lists than one long one but he prefers to have logical splits when possible. In other words, make a longer list if everything on the list is an HE 20.3202:. He said it is fine to send lists that include ranges of items and we could list things such as the Labor Department's news (made up) as L1.2: 123,125,127,131,142, etc without each title. We decided to hold a moratorium on sending offers lists until Jan. 1, just to give CU the psychological boost that they are making progress. Tim pointed out that many times he can fill gaps from the lists and that DPL has many fewer gaps since theirs is a (mostly) closed collection. It should be noted that CU has a fiche-to fiche copier and CSU is very happy with it's fiche-to-printer or fiche-to-email scanner. 10. Lisa had questions on how the other libraries are figuring growth needs for their shelving, fiche cabinets, etc. We talked about having a stable collection and the perceptions that can cause. It was pointed out that even if we are not expanding, we are replacing older information with newer information. Tim wrote a satiric email about getting rid of all the electronic access to boost circulation. That email is making the rounds so we might see it sometime. Louise urged us to consider nominees to GODORT for the Depository Library Council. There will be a message soon about an on-line nominating form. GPO picks up the transportation costs for members of the Federal Depository Library Council to attend the twice yearly meetings. There are not retention requirements for Colorado state publications. 11. Significant Events Adams State - Dianne is doing a presentation to 30 non-documents librarian about caring for special collections and asked for ideas to include. DU Law - The new serials module from III is up and it needs more memory than the old module. They have also learned there will be less space in their new building so they will be doing massive weeding but even they are respecting the moratorium on discard lists (you can too). Auraria - Interviewing for a new Assistant Director so Louise should be able to give up those duties that she's held on a temporary basis. They are getting ready to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the library. DU - They are happy with the support staff situation and making good progress on retrospective cataloging of the Interstate Commerce Commission. This is the first step in deciding what they need from the collection they received. Chris is going to Japan again. He works with Japanese libraries who are also UN Centre for Regional Development depositories. Mines - Lisa has lost her 7th tech in 8 years and is beginning to feel paranoid. She interviews again next week. They have a new library position for a Public Services Librarian to supervise the circulation and ILL departments. JCPL - The Colorado Preservation Alliance has received the library of the defunct Rocky Mountain Conservation Center and will be adding parts of it to the Myra Jo Moon Collection. Sharon reminded people that access to that collection is available through the JCPL catalog using the subject "Myra Jo Moon." Greeley - The library is now wireless and students can check out laptops at the circulation desk to use in the library. Mark says he was told it would be slower but hasn't been able to notice. Lisa Blankenship is the new head of reference. Mark is now the bibliographer responsible for the history of political science section and also serving time at the regular reference desk. CSU - Still working on retrospective cataloging but it is very slow. The librarians are teaching many units of library classes. Fred said the library is packed with students. CU Engineering - Yolanda has noticed less students coming in particularly now that their standards indices are online. The have complete ASTM, IEEE and ANSI access and many of the actual standards are available in the library. CU has finished cataloging ALL of their hearings and now has 1833 to current in their catalog. This includes microfiche and paper. The meeting was adjourned at 1:30 "It's a resource problem", Sharon Partridge, secretary Sharon M. Partridge Documents Librarian Jefferson County Public Library 10200 W. 20th Ave. Lakewood, CO 80215 (303) 232-9507 sharonp@jefferson.lib.co.us "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety." --Benjamin Franklin