Government Publications Interest Group (GoPig) meeting @ CU 
Business Library, May 17, 1995		

Present:  Janet Lee - Regis; Rob Jackson - DPL; Fred Schmidt 
- CSU; Marit MacArthur - Auraria; Tim Byrne, Debbie Hollis, 
Martha Jo Sani - CU.

Only a few braved the rainy weather to gather together.  

Next meeting:  The University of Wyoming in Laramie will host 
the next GoPig meeting on June 14, 1995 at 10:30 a.m.  Travel 
arrangements are forthcoming.  The CU librarians will try to 
arrange transportation so that everyone can drive up 
together.  

GPO Access:  As of Monday, May 15th both Regis and Auraria 
have two test terminals each in place.  They are using a 
SWAIS set up.  There is a problem with using the existing 
CARL terminals since these terminals are not able to handle 
the vt100 emulation. GPO Access does work well on a standard 
WYSE 60 terminal but not WYSE 50. It is too early to tell how 
the public will respond to GPO Access.  Both Janet and Marit 
will keep the group posted.  On behalf of Louise Treff, Janet 
asked for volunteers to relinquish their GPO Access 
passwords. If CARL is used as the selective housing site, a 
library can turn over its passwords thus making more ports 
available for the public to dial in and use GPO Access.  

DOE database:  CARL does not yet have a Lynx browser thus 
making a gateway to the DOE database not possible at this 
time. 

Federal legislative update:  Tim read an email message from 
Dan O'Mahoney (Brown University) that summarizes the bills 
currently working their way through Congress that deal with 
government information and GPO.  Tim will post Dan's message 
to CoGoPub-L.  Tim announced that Jim Williams, Dean of the 
CU Libraries has been named chair of the ARL Access to 
Government Information task force.  This sparked a lively 
discussion of the future of "free" government information and 
the depository library system.  As in the past, the topic of 
government CD-ROMs and Internet sites arose which led to Tim 
asking if the group was interested in turning future GoPig 
meetings into continuing education opportunities. Future 
meetings could involve sharing information, local handouts, 
etc. about a specific government CD-ROM/Internet site. Those 
present agreed that this would be very helpful.  Tim said he 
will post a question on CoGoPub to find out what specific CDs 
people are interested in promoting or teaching others about.  
He also announced that CU would soon be designing a homepage 
of subject specific government sites.  

The group toured the CU Business Library and Martha Jo 
demonstrated the useful government databases on Lexis/Nexis.  

GPO Access Training:  GPO representative Judy Russel came to 
Denver and Boulder at the end of April for a GPO Access 
training session. Tim reported that the morning session in 
Boulder did not go as smoothly as the afternoon session.  But 
the demonstration was helpful to many Colorado documents 
librarians.  A question was raised about the databases on GPO 
Access.  For example, will the Congressional Record of the 
103rd Congress continue to be available as time goes by?  
During her visit Judy mentioned that most likely the dated 
material will be removed and archived on a CD-ROM.  

CARL/MARCIVE:  Louise Treff continues to work on her Marcive 
profile.  Tim reported that he received approval to purchase 
a new Marcive tape which will include authority work.  Fred 
noted that barcoding is *not* a smooth process.  

CLA Fall GODORT meeting:  Tim reported that he received an 
email message from Julie Jones-Eddy regarding the fall 
meeting.  She recommends offering a GPO Access session as 
outreach to the community.  Tim suggested hosting a session 
entitled "Government Information Through CARL" in which GPO 
Access, ERIC, and the CO legislative database are 
demonstrated.  It looks like the GODORT business meeting will 
be held Sunday, October 1st and CIS might sponsor a wine and 
cheese session.  

Colorado State publications:  Debbie reported that she is 
compiling a list of state Internet sites and already posted 
three interesting sites on CoGoPub-L.  She is a member of the 
subcommittee of the State & Local Documents Task Force that 
is trying to compile a list of useful state Internet 
resources.  The group hopes to have a substantive list in 
time to present at the ALA Chicago meeting.  She will keep 
the group posted as she gathers information.

Arcview & ESRI:  Tim reported that they made a presentation 
to CU a week or so ago. Since ESRI's office is in Boulder he 
recommended that GoPig consider touring their facility for a 
future meeting. Perhaps a morning session at ESRI could 
include a demonstration of their government electronic 
products and a tour.  The group will consider this idea after 
ALA.  

Old Business:  Tim showed the group a copy of the "Country 
Commercial Guide" for Russia.  He explained that this and 
other guides are available on the first disk of the NTDB.  
The Country Marketing Plans and Foreign Economic Trends are 
slowly being phased out.  The Commercial guides seem to be an 
extensive combination of the two.  Thus far ninety-five 
countries have commercial guides available while the country 
marketing plans are down to fifty.  

New Business:  Debbie reported that she recently presented a 
paper at the 5th Conference for Librarians in International 
Development in Kansas City, Missouri.  This group is an 
interesting blend of corporate, law, and academic librarians 
who share an interest in the issue of information and 
technology transfer in developing countries.  The emphasis is 
on international issues of librarianship.  She and Yolanda 
Maloney, a CU Business Librarian who also presented a paper 
at the conference, were asked if CU Boulder would consider 
co-hosting the 1997 conference with the Emporia State 
University School of Library & Information Management (SLIM) 
program.  Debbie and Yolanda have met with the head of public 
services and administrative services and thus far it looks 
like there is interest.  The two are scheduled to meet with 
the Dean of the University Libraries to discuss the details 
and opportunities that hosting a national conference would 
bring to the Boulder campus.  Debbie said that if this is a 
go she hopes GoPig members will consider participating in the 
conference.  Janet made a motion that GoPig endorse the idea 
of CU hosting this conference and Rob seconded the motion.  

Announcements:  Fred updated the group on the events at CSU.  
The long awaited construction project has officially begun 
for the expansion of the library.  CSU has also streamlined 
its technical services process and now government documents 
will be put into the regular work flow.  In order to 
prominently locate documents reference service the staff has 
been combined and moved to the science reference desk.  

No other announcements were made.

The group adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Debbie Hollis