April 19, 1995  GoPig meeting @ Denver Public Library

Present:  Janet Lee - Regis; Louise Treff - Auraria; Wayne Coffey, Rob 
Jackson - DPL; Martha Jo Sani, Tim Byrne, Debbie Hollis - CU Boulder; 
Lisa Stomberg - CO School of Mines, Craig Haggit, Jan Jorgensen, 
McKinley Sielaff - University of Wyoming.

The group toured the Government Documents/Business area of the 
new Denver Public Library.  

Announcements:  Lisa Stomberg announced that Christopher Thiery 
from NYPL will join the CO School of Mines as the new map librarian 
July 10th.  Rob Jackson announced the addition of Deb Van Tassel to 
the DPL Gov/Bus crew.  Tim reported that Peggy Jobe has accepted 
the position of international documents librarian at CU and will begin 
June 1st.  

Next meeting:  The group agreed to meet May 17th at the CU 
Business Library at 10:30 a.m..  The Wyoming contingency was asked 
if GoPig could meet in Wyoming in the near future.  They suggested 
waiting until weather is no longer an issue but would like to have 
GoPig visit.

Depository Library Program conference:  Mark Anderson from UNC 
and Lisa Stomberg attended the conference as well as Rob Jackson.  
Lisa reported that the National Electronic Conference will be held 
May 1 -14 and Mark wants to be a site for this.

	It was announced at the DLP conference that Stat-USA and 
NTDB will have a new format in the fall.  NTDB will possible have 
three disks instead of two.  The NTDB *might* be Windows based.  
The GoPig group discussed the "Industrial Outlook" situation.  With 
regard to "Global Outlook," only two hundred copies beyond what 
goes to depository libraries will be produced.  It is not clear if 
depository libraries will receive both the print and CD version of 
"Global Outlook."  Lisa and Rob reported that there was discussion of 
making the CBD available for free electronically but there was 
concern about upsetting commercial vendors.  

	Many DLP sessions concentrated on GPO Access and the issue of 
electronic access of information.  A major criticism of the conference 
was that little training of various electronic products was offered.  
There is recognition that not everything works or is useful in 
electronic format.  Some discussion was raised about the issue of 
permanent archives i.e. who is responsible?  

	Conference participants saw a demonstration of the DOE Index.  
It was stated that perhaps in two to five years the full reports might 
be available on line.  Some agencies wonder if they will exist in the 
next few years.  Sheila McGarr reported that regionals will be able to 
deselect dual formats.  

	In one conference discussion about the consumer price index it 
was revealed that the local CPI numbers are not stable.  They are 
based on a sample to get the national numbers.  Local CPI numbers 
should *not* be used for business contracts.  

GPO Access and CARL:  Louise, Janet and George Machovec of CARL 
met.  It was decided that CARL will try a pilot project in which a 
couple of libraries will be set up with the SWAIS version of GPO 
Access.  If it works well they will turn it on and make it available to 
the other CARL libraries.  The group discussed assigning passwords.  
The question was raised of offering GPO Access through ACLIN 
versus CARL.  This would benefit the non-CARL libraries.  Tim asked 
whether the DOE database could be made available via CARL.  Louise 
will look into this and keep everyone posted. 

GPO Access training:  On April 28th Judy Russel provided GPO Access 
training for central Colorado documents librarians.  She presented a 
general information session to the public at DPL on May 1st.  

CARL/MARCIVE update:  Lisa completed and turned in her profile.  
The tapes have been sent to CARL.  She reported that she will have 
thirty days to tell CARL if the records are good/bad.  She has not 
seen a test file yet.  CARL plans to do the retrospective, ongoing, and 
shipping lists all at once.  Lisa mentioned that at the DLP conference 
it was stated that the official GPO tape is the only one that is proof 
read.  It is debatable about whether the corrections of MoCat actually 
get to OCLC.  Lisa offered to share a report via email given by a 
conference participant on Marcive processing.  Louise reported that 
she is working on her profile and is a third of the way.   McKinley 
and Craig are working on their profile and hope to complete it by 
June.   Janet reported that she has not begun her profile yet.  Tim 
reported that CU received an extract of the MARCIVE tape to load.  It 
is scheduled to be loaded in June but MARCIVE felt that CU was 
violating their contract.  The contract states that records cannot be 
loaded on other platforms.  A new tape load would cost 
approximately $18,000.  

Tim reported that CU has a complete set of GAO microfiche from 
1983 to the present.  This includes the nonreport series which does 
not get into the depository library program.  

Sigcat CD-ROM Directory:  Tim explained how he loaded the list of 
government CD-ROMs on the Government Publications LAN.  This list 
is available on the NESE CD-ROM and can be accessed through the 
help directory.   He stated that NTDB user guides can also be found in 
the help directory.  

Old business:  None.

New business:   It was recommended that the group look at the 1985 
state plan.  Tim suggested that Nancy Bolt be contacted about this.  
GoPig could be the official group to review the plan.  Tim will look 
into this.  

Significant events  

Jan and McKinley reported that Wyoming has integrated their 
documents into the main library collection.  Maps and documents are 
processed in acquisitions, cataloging will handle the database and 
circulation will handle stacks maintenance. Office space is being built 
to integrate the documents staff into the reference department.  
They experienced a flood in their basement and were concerned 
about their microfiche.  Jan announced that their regional 
representative will step down.  They may/not continue with their 
regional status.  Currently there are ten selectives in Wyoming.  The 
state library went from a 100% depository status to 30%.  This would 
be a good time to reassess the regional status issue.    Louise asked if 
staffing the reference desk has changed as a result of the 
reorganization.  A documents librarian is always on call.  Once the 
database comes up they anticipate more use of the collection.  Their 
reference staff experienced the loss of one position and now 
everyone expects to do more desk hours in the future.  

DPL documents librarians clarified that 90% of their collection is 
currently inaccessible.  They hope to have better access to materials 
by the fall.  

The meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Debbie Hollis