GOPIG Minutes

                     July 28th GOPIG Meeting
                       Held at CU-Boulder

Present:  Rob Jackson (DPL), Awilda Reyes and Fred Schmidt (CSU),
          Mark Anderson (UNC), Lisa Stomberg (CSM), Louise Treff
          (AUR), Tim Byrne and Laura Carter (CU-Boulder)

Announcements:  Laura Carter will be leaving her position at CU-
          Boulder on August 31st to begin her internship in
          counseling psychology.
          Tim Byrne is now actively seeking a temporary
          replacement for Laura.

Minutes:  June minutes were posted July 27th.  No corrections.

Next Meeting Place and Date: CSU Library, Rm.124, Aug. 25, 1994

ALA Summary:  Louise started out by stating that most of the
          topics covered at ALA annual have also been covered on
          GOVDOC-L to some extent.  The meetings were spread out
          all over town which affected attendance.  There were
          also many meeting conflicts.  Louise had not brought
          her notes to this meeting.  She will discuss further at
          next GOPIG meeting.
          Fred discussed the major changes going on at the CSU
          Library.  The Library will be greatly enlarged in the
          future and the Government Documents reference desk will
          be moved into a central reference area or "cluster" for
          referrals from a central information desk.  The
          documents technical services will be "mainstreamed"
          as "subunits" into the appropriate unit (i.e. serials,
          database maintenance, etc.)

Center for British Studies:  The history of this center at CU-
          Boulder was discussed.  This Center has become one of
          the foremost centers of its kind in the western U.S.,
          with original historical records for both Essex
          and Hereford counties in microfilm format.

CARL Report:
          A. Integration Task Force:  On-going records are now
          going into the Marcive database, however some records
          have been found in database #83 which are not in #99. 
          If you find evidence of this, please send a print-out
          to Louise so that the problem can be solved.  CU-
          Auraria has begun their profiling process by sending
          their GPO processing profile to Marcive.

          B.  Resource Sharing Plan:  The Denver Public Library
          has decided not to purchase a fiche-to-fiche copier.  A
          discussion ensued about exactly what is expected in
          this CARL Resource Sharing Plan.  Fred stated that     
          he thinks technology will outpace these efforts.  

Office of Business Analysis Symposium:  
          There will be a two day seminar at the Clarion Harvest
          House Hotel in Boulder, August 23-24, 1994, presented
          by the Department of Commerce and geared towards the   
          information needs and technologies of small businesses
          in the area.  The cost will be $99.00 if postmarked by
          August 5th or $125.00 after that date, which includes
          the luncheon and dinner on August 23rd. Tim Byrne,
          Head, Government Publications Library at the University
          of Colorado, Boulder will represent the depository
          libraries in the panel discussion entitled: "Informa-
          tion Services Technical Challenges", on Tuesday        
          afternoon, August 23rd.  For more information please   
          call: (303) 497-6000.

CLA GODORT:  Julie Jones-Eddy, who was not able to attend this
          GOPIG meeting, had Tim announce that plans for the
          October CLA annual meeting are coming along.  The
          program will be about government information on the
          Internet and CIS will be sponsoring the GODORT
          breakfast business meeting.

National Archive Microfilm:  Tim asked for support or interest in
          establishing a union list of National Archive microfilm
          collections in the state including the Federal Center
          collections.  A number of people expressed interest and
          offered to begin assembling their own lists.

Job for student assistant:  The Government Publications Library
          at the University of Colorado at Boulder has employed
          Craig Smith for the past few years, first as a student
          assistant, and presently as a temporary staff member. 
          Craig has now graduated from college and is looking for
          permanent employment.  He comes highly recommended as a
          dependable, responsible employee with extensive
          documents reference experience and an increasing
          comfort level with computer technology.

New Business:  CSU and CU-Denver have now begun their WAIS access
          to the Federal Register and the Congressional Record. 
          DPL and CU-Boulder are still working on equipment
          upgrades before they can begin using WAIS.

Library Significant Events:  Tim described his experience of the
          recent Census Department workshop on Native American
          statistical data.  He warned that these workshops are
          very much geared toward the general public, not
          documents specialists, but still found the workshop
          worth while.  The subject reports on Native Americans
          should be coming out soon on both CD-ROM and paper. 

        
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