GoPIG Minutes Apr 12, 2002 Auraria Library In attendance: Venice Beske (Wyoming State Library), Louise Treff-Gangler (Auraria), Gary Morell (FRCC), Susan Simmons (MDEPL), Sharon Partridge (JCPL), Julie Jones-Eddy (CC), Chris Brown (DU), Tobey Stein (CU-Denver), Katherine Sayer (10th Circuit Ct. Library), Cathy Easen (10th Circuit Ct. Library), (Mark Anderson (UNC), and Tim Byrne (CU) presiding. 1. Our tour included the disgustingly neat desk of Louise Treff-Gangler (who had everything piled on shelves so we decided to let her continue with the group). The Congressional documents were color coded by Congress with tape or magic marker to make it easier to weed. Most of Auraria's collection circulates, including the Serial Set. As they are nearing the end of their retro project, Louise highly recommends the smart bar codes for easing the process. Auraria's strength is in the social sciences, particularly law enforcement and they are also a Colorado state depository. 2.Fred Schmidt has retired recently and Doug Ernest will be the new documents librarian for CSU. Julie Jones-Eddy was making her farewell appearance and announced her retirement. They have reopened the position at CC. We're hoping they can both come to the May meeting to have a celebration. Louise announced that ALA ballots are due at the end of Apr. 3. There were no minutes, but they were approved anyway. 4. May 10 - DU Chris is hoping to show us the topo maps online at DU June 7 CU - including another round of discard lists July 26 - UNC Sept. 13 - Wyoming State Library and State Archives Oct 17-20 is the first meeting of the combined CLA and CEMA= CAL Nov. 1 - Front Range Dec. 6 - Broomfield Jan. 10 - JCPL 5. We had a brief meeting about pulling docs but only for a GPO request. We talked about the fact that the Patriot Act requires us to keep such requests secret. Susan is going to a workshop on "What to Do When the Sheriff Comes" and will report back. 6.With the new Public Printer nominee Bruce James, the consensus was wait and see. 7. Senate bill 803 (E-Government Act) is out of committee but there is little time and more opposition than there was to the GPO bill. Lieberstat is the sponsor of this bill, which would enhance the management and promotion of electronic Government services and processes by establishing a Federal Chief Information Officer within OMB and by establishing a broad framework of measures that require using Internet-based information technology to enhance citizen access to Government information and services. 8. We are going to try to present a couple programs for the first CAL conference. One will be on the new Census material and we'll ask the Denver office to send someone to present that. Mark is working on a program about the removal of government information. Several people volunteered to help him. He also had an idea for a gov docs for K-12. Sharon is working to get permission to present that, hopefully with a children's librarian as co-presenter. 9. Tim presented a demo on the Joint Publications Reference Service, described at . JPRS translated foreign language political and technical information. CU has 1950-70s. Beginning in 1978, GPO distributed these via microform but the Defense Technical Information Center has begun putting all of these in full-text on their site at stinet.dtic.mil. Choose "Search Science and Technical Documents" and select the full-text option. Using "jprs" as the search term returns these reports, many of which are a series. Note that a Google search will not get these documents. Tim pointed out that NTIS has said if a document is available online for free that NTIS will point to that free copy rather than charging, but these are not linked. Another search under "operations crossroads" give you full text of many of the reports on nuclear testing in the South Pacific. The "clothing almanac" gives you weather conditions by month for many of the place in the world where the US might have sent soldiers. It includes photographs. Lots of unexpected information at this site. 10. The moratorium on discard lists continues - there are about 150 left. Tim is trying to send 5-10 lists per week depending on the size. He asked that people make a separate list of CDs rather than including them in a general list. We don't need to list floppy disks. 12. Chris did something interesting with his catalog record for Monthly Energy Review and for Humanities. He linked the catalog record to Gold Rush (goldrush.coalliance.org) so that you can go to see where the journal is indexed and which Alliance members have that index. You can see an example at with a periodical title search of Monthly Energy Review. Gold Rush lists all of the journals of the member libraries, tells you the date range for indexing and any date ranges for full-text coverage. 13 Auraria's media center is becoming part of the library. They've always shared the building but not their governing structure. UNC had a full staff but Kathy Enrol (their long-time Business Librarian) is retiring. 10th District Court library is moving while the building is renovated. They have to put almost the entire collection into boxes and then move back in a few years. They asked for an exemption from the offers list moratorium and were given one. DU is interviewing for a Serials and Access Librarian. WY is hosting a workshop and open house. On Mon. May 20 from 2-4 there will be an open house for their new Patent and Trademark Depository at the Wyoming State Library. On Tues. May 21, there will be two workshops. From 10:30 to noon, John Calvert of the Office of Independent Inventor Programs will talk about Intellectual Property Strategies and the differences between copyright, trade secrets, patents and trademarks. From 2-3:30, Luke Santangelo, an intellectual property attorney will discuss trademarks. Contact Venice Beske at the Wyoming State Library for more information (307 777-7982 or VBESKE@state.wy.us. JCPL has a new gov docs workstation with all of the CD-ROM's loaded on the hard drive. The mapping project continues. CU - Tim is interviewing for the new State and Foreign Documents Librarian. CU is having 14 interviews in 21 days for a variety of positions. The meeting was adjourned at 2:30 Respectfully submitted, Sharon Partridge, secretary