Minutes: Government Publications Interest Group 
Friday, March 8, 2002
Meeting at Colorado State Archives, Denver

Present: Tim Byrne (CU Boulder); Chris Brown (University of Denver), recorder; 
Susan Simmons (Broomfield ); Louise Treff-Gangler (Auraria); Leanne Walther (CU 
Boulder); Gary Morell (Front Range CC); Shelly Drumm (CU Boulder); Laura Harris 
(Colo. Supreme Court Library); Rob Jackson (DPL); Carol Perkins (DU Law); Lisa 
Nickum (Mines); George Orlowsky (Sr. Archivist, State of Colo.); Terry Kettleson 
(Archivist, State of Colo.)

1. Tour of Colo. State Archives by George Orlowsky and Terry Kettleson. Tour 
included various levels of the archives and the reference area. Reference area 
contains recordings of public hearings concerning state legislation (6 formats 
of tapes!). Discussed services provided and service charges for some services. 
Afterwards we discussed archiving of State Web pages. The State Archives manages 
about 60% of State Web site. Some agencies (CDE, Health, CBI, Universities) have 
their own servers.  65% of the records retained by the Archives are court 
related. 

2. Colorado Association of Libraries. Susan Simmons reported on the Government 
Documents Interest Group (as it is now called in the newly-formed CAL). 

3. USGS CD: Tim told us the Mainichi Shimbun (Japanese newspaper) had interviewed him about the destruction of the CD. Tim will be featured in the 
paper. Watch your Tokyo newsstands! 

4. Library significant events. 
Broomfield Public (Susan): adjusting to new library 
DU (Chris): putting URLs in topo maps; retro serials cataloging is progressing Mines (Lisa): working on a technical reports Web page Auraria (Louise): Media Center is being transferred to Auraria Higher Education Center, eliminating 11 out of 27 jobs. Colo. 
Supreme Court Library (Laura): Laura is new at the library (3 months). She does serials control, accounts management, and eventually government documents. CU Boulder: Tim: caught in hiring freeze; Shelly: has been at CU for 1 month.

Christopher C. Brown
Reference Librarian / Government Documents Librarian
Penrose Library; University of Denver
2150 E. Evans Ave.
Denver, CO  USA 80208
Phone/Voicemail: 303-871-3404
Fax: 303-871-2290
Web: http://www.du.edu/~cbrown/
Web: http://www.virtualref.com/