June GoPIG minutes


GoPig meeting June 14, 1995 @University of Wyoming, Laramie

Present:  Deb Van Tassel - DPL; Mark Anderson - UNC; Louise Treff, Marit 
MacArthur - Auraria; Lisa Stomberg - CO School of Mines; Jan Jorgensen, McKinley 
Sielaff, Craig Haggit,  Carol White, Hope Green, Sandy Barstow -- University of 
Wyoming; Tim Byrne, Peggy Jobe, Debbie Hollis - CU Boulder.

It was a beautiful day to make the drive to Laramie.  The group toured the library.

Announcements:  Auraria has centralized reference and the documents department 
has their own service window now.   Laura Carter, the former CU Boulder 
International Documents librarian has a part-time, temporary documents position 
at CSU in Ft. Collins.  Tim introduced Peggy Jobe, the new CU Boulder International 
documents librarian. 

Next meeting:  This is scheduled for July 20th at UNC in Greeley in hopes of 
catching the Denver Broncos at their training camp.  

GPO Budget Crisis:  In response to the proposed $16 million budget cut to the GPO 
budget Tim urged everyone present to write/call their congressional representative.  
Louise asked if any alternatives had been proposed in response to the cuts and Tim 
replied that there may be hearings at the end of June regarding GPO.

CARL GPO Access:  GPO Access is available on CARL under #22 on the government 
publications menu option.  It is #75.  Louise reported that the gateway is up and 
running.  It is possible to dial in or telnet.   It was recommended that if the dial in 
access is used, be sure to select VT100 emulation.   Auraria and Regis each assigned 
five passwords to CARL.   Louise explained the registration process for passwords.   
Tim announced that the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will turn over all ten of their 
passwords.  Louise will assist them with this process.  George Machovec at CARL is 
looking into being able to telnet directly to the Government Publications menu thus 
bypassing the main CARL menu.  Louise will send an announcement to Admin 
Notes: Newsletter for the federal depository library system,  to announce that CARL 
is a GPO Access site.  

CARL MARCIVE update:  Lisa reported that CARL, the Alliance, did not get the 
loader code from CARL, Corp.  CARL Corp. has the final beta version but they are 
not ready to release it.  She assured everyone that they need not hurry to complete 
their profiling.  A lengthy discussion followed regarding the CARL loader code 
situation.  Tim reported that the CARL directors agreed to buy the retrospective 
database thus CU Boulder will have the entire new database of government 
publications.  BNA is doing the authority work for the CU OPAC.  Tim directed 
MARCIVE to send records to BNA for authority work.  It is hoped that the tape will 
be loaded into the CU OPAC by the Fall semester.  It will be maintained by the CU 
Government Publications staff.  

CLA GoDort Fall meeting:  Julie Jones-Eddy, Colorado College emailed Tim.  The 
meeting will be held Sunday, October 1st from 1:30-3:30 .  Peggy Jobe will do host the 
program which will review GPO Access.  The GoDort Business meeting will be held 
at 5 p.m and CIS will sponsor wine and cheese.

Colorado state update:  Debbie invited everyone to check out her home page which 
is currently under construction.   Her research assistant, Craig Smith is designing it.  
The address is  http://spot.colorado.edu/~hollisd/Home.html

International documents:  Peggy updated the group on European Union Internet 
access.   Some EU information is available free to the public while things like 
directives, case law, and press releases are only accessible through specific EU fee 
based services.  CU Boulder has a free account since it is an EU depository.  Peggy can 
conduct a search for any Colorado documents librarians and email the results.   She 
invited everyone to email/call her for EU electronic reference assistance.  

Old Business:  None.

New Business: None.

Library significant events:  McKinley is currently constructing a home page for the 
University of WY Library.    Deb reported that floods in the old part of DPL continue 
to be a problem.  Ninety percent of their documents were left in the sub-basement.  
There were no preservation or emergency/disaster response procedures in place.   
Not much has been discarded at this point but the loss will rise as they assess the 
damaged portion of the collection.  So far it looks as if materials in the I19 and FS 
call number range were the hardest hit.  Louise reported that Auraria is searching 
for a general reference librarian and they are reviewing applications now.  Auraria 
will have a serials and monographic cataloger position open soon.  She is 
approximately 40-50% of the way through her MARCIVE profiling.   Mark, at UNC, 
announced that he hoped to finish his profiling soon.  Lisa reported that the new 
CO School of Mines Map Librarian will begin July 10th.  Tim announced that CU 
purchased the CIS hearings, parts 1-4, 1837 - 1944.  CU currently has hearings in 
paper from 1944 to the present.  CU also has the 1833-1958 CIS Unpublished 
Hearings from the House and he is ordering the latest supplement for the 
Senate for which they already have 1923-1968.  

The group observed a demonstration of U of WYÕs serials check in process.

The group adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Deborah Hollis