GOPIG Minutes Sept. 19th Meeting at Broomfield Public Library Present: Yolanda Maloney, CU; Sharon Partridge, JCPL; Gary Morell, Broomfield Public; Martha Jo Sani, CU-Business; Fred Schmidt, CSU; Tim Byrne, CU; Kendra Schwindt-Swope, CJC La Junta; Dallas Marshall, CU-Law; Lisa Stomberg, Mines; Elfrieda Jopp, USAFA; Sharon Johnson, USAFA; & Mark Anderson, UNC. Our heartiest compliments to our hosts at the Broomfield Public Library for the impressive refreshment table. 1. The next meeting will be Friday, November 7th at Arthur Lakes Library,Colorado School of Mines, Golden. 2. Fred reported on the effects and the cleanup efforts at CSU. The Government Documents section in the Library was relatively unscathed, suffering damage to some 170 volumes that were in a storage area for binding. 3. The CIS salesman was in Colorado recently demonstrating CIS's online version of their Congressional publication's index to Alliance Libraries. CU, CSU and DU Law will be signing up. CIS's Statistical Compass ought to be available in January and will probably be more expensive than Congressional Compass. 4. Title 44 Revisions - Tim read an E-mail he received from Dan O'Mahony regarding the Inter-Association Work Group on Government Information Policy, which is drafting a bill that wou revise USC Title 44. The draft is still not available to be shared with outside groups, but that discussions between the Joint Committee on Printing, the Senate Rules Committee and the Office of Management and Budget have resulted in six key concepts that would be reflected in the final draft. It is considerably different from the draft that was distributed at the Depository Library Conference in April. GPO would remain in the legislative branch, but would be available to e-branch agencies as an optional agent for printing and publication services. The Superintendent of Documents would continue to be a legislative branch employee, but with a budget separate from GPO. Exec and Judicial branch agencies would have more choices in how they acquire printing, but would be required to notify SuDocs prior to the publication of products that are likely to be of public interest.SuDocs appropriations would pay for depository copies of these publications. There are safeguards against non-compliance. 5. Discard Lists - there have been a lot of discard lists lately and they have been slow in getting cleared. CU is now officially the regional for Wyoming, Wyoming's and Colorado's discard lists will be distributed in both states. Lists should be sent to COGOPUB, rather than to Tim or Rob directly. The procedures document will be updated and sent out soon. 6. Dialog@CARL State Pilot Project. Check out the NTIS database there. 7. DOE Information Bridge - DOE reports are no longer coming out in microfiche. Instead subscribers have access to an online database where the full-text of the 1996 - present reports are available in TIFF and PDF formats. It will supposedly be part of GPO Access in January. 8. CARL Government Publications database - We are not CARL anymore, the name CARL was sold, so we're "the Alliance", now. What used to be CARL database 83 will be moved off CARL machines and be maintained by the "Alliance". CU, CSU and DPL will have a cooperative project for loading retrospective records. Records for Colorado State Publications will be available for any library that wants to use them. 9. Tim attended the first Conference of Regional Depository Librarians, in Minneapolis last August. There were sessions conducted by GPO staff and topical sessions by librarians. Tim was part of a panel on Communicating Electronically with Selective Depositories. 10. For a list of all subscribers to COGOPUB, along with their E-mail addresses, send a message to listproc@lists.colorado.edu. The subject line should be blank and the message should say: recipients COGOPUB-L. 11. Unfinished Business - some libraries still have not received their copies of "Roswell: the Final Report". 12. Library Significant Events: At JCPL, due to computer malfunction, all October - March serial check-ins have to be rerun. At CU - Colorado by the Numbers has received a literary effort award from CLA. Peggy Jobe's Environmental Resources workshop has been adapted and conducted successfully in different settings for different audience At UNC - Lynne Fox has left and taken a job at CU Medical Center Library. Lisa Blankenship has taken her position. Lisa's former position, as Bibliographic Instruction Librarian, will be advertised in the standard media soon. The Information Literacy Presentation Facility is finished and functioning. On October 3rd, there will be a 25th Anniversary Rededication of Michener Library, the featured speaker will be dvs.ld Mark Anderson Government Documents Librarian James A. Michener Library University of Northern Colorado Greeley, CO 80639 Phone: 970-351-2987 Fax: 970-351-2540 Email: maanders@bentley.unco.edu