Minutes of the GoPIG Meeting, March 13, 1997 at the Denver Public 
Library.

Attendance:  Tim Byrne, Martha Jo Sani, Yolanda Maloney, and Debbie 
Hollis, CU-Boulder; Laura Lee Carter, Fred Schmidt, and Suzanne Taylor, CSU; 
Rob Jackson, DPL; Paula La Frenierre, Aurora Public Library; Barb Tillmans, 
DU Law; Allison Cowgill, DU; Lisa Stomberg, Mines; Sharon Partridge, 
Jefferson County Public Library; Louise Treff-Gangler, Auraria; Sharon 
Johnson, USAF Academy.

1.   Announcements:  Rob Richards, who has been working in a temporary
position at CU Boulder, has been appointed as a permanent technical services 
librarian at CU-Law.  GoPIG would like to meet at CU-Law Library sometime in 
the future.

2.   The minutes from the February meeting will be distributed at the 
April GoPIG meeting.

3.   The next meeting will be at the Aurora Public Library on Thursday April 
24 at 10 a.m.

4.   ALA GODORT Report was given by Tim Byrne and Louise Treff-Gangler.  Wayne 
Kelley spoke on several issues including the privatization of the Journal of 
the National Cancer Institute. Depository libraries will no longer receive this
journal for free.  A similar situation now exists with the Historical 
Statistics of the United States.  In the past, the Joint Committee on Printing,
did more to prevent this kind of privatization, but the current committee is 
weakened and now GPO must press agencies for compliance and this is much more 
difficult.  CU has just applied for a site license for StatUSA.  Gil Baldwin 
talked about the ongoing migration to an electronic format.  The Serials Set 
will be replaced by CD-ROMs from the 105th Congress on.  The Library 
of Congress is scanning the Serial Set starting with the American State Papers.
Digital Raster Graph CDs and Digital Orthophotoquad CDs will no longer be
published due to major funding  cuts at the USGS.  There is
heavy use on GPO Access and new items will continually be added.  The 
Supreme Court Reports may come up on the Web soon.  Baldwin stated that the 
goal is to reach the point where publications are divided as to format with 
the proportions being:  50% electronic, 30% paper, and 20% microtext. There 
is an inconsistency in the cataloging of URLs in GPO records - GPO catalogers 
have been working on the problems that have been identified.  There are fewer 
employees at GPO than anytime in this century.  GPO has requested $35 million 
for the next fiscal year.  Duncan Aldrich, University of Nevada, Reno, is
on leave at GPO this year and is working on partnerships with agencies.
T.C. Evans took Judy Russell's place at GPO and is working on a complete 
upgrade of hardware and load balancing to increase access time.  GPO is 
exploring new search engines for the web sites and have a committee working 
on the web sites themselves.  GPO is working on digitizing the Congressional 
hearings and putting the CFR up on a website. Right now, GPO has no backlog 
of Internet sites that need cataloging.  GPO is the second largest cataloger 
of Internet sites, and will probably the largest before long.  They have 
cataloged approximately 12,000 titles with URLs, 112 of which are 
Internet-only sites.

5.   Inspections:  all libraries that were not inspected last Fall  had to 
do self studies.  These studies are forwarded to Tim and Rob.  Any libraries 
with major areas of non-compliance will be inspected in May.  Only two 
Colorado libraries will be inspected, both of whom have an extremely low 
selection of documents.

6.   Rob gave the group a tour of the Patent Depository area. DPL has 
a number of stand alone stations and one station with a juke box that holds 
all of the discs.  They have several sets of the Cassis discs so that users do 
not have to wait for access.  DPL has a microfiche collection of all full 
patents and a number of reader/printer.  They charge 10 cents a page 
for printing. 

7.   World News Connection:  This is the online version of FBIS. It includes 
the last two yearsof indexing.  CU-B has two subscriptions, which helps when 
a user exits without logging off.  In this case, the database does not
time out for 30 minutes so a new user is locked out for this period of
time.  There is a large cost differential between the $1000 license  for one 
simultaneous user and the $5000 for 2-4 simultaneous users.

8.   Debbie Hollis asked for suggestions regarding the CLA GODORT
spring/summer meeting.  It was decided to meet  again on the Western
Slope. The meeting will be a Thursday or Friday in Gunnison and will be 
broken up into two half-day sessions.  Several topics were suggested.

9.   Marcive Update:  If there appear to be missing records in a Marcive load, 
be sure to check OCLC to determine if GPO has actually cataloged the item.
If it  looks like GPO has cataloged it, then contact Marcive as to the
reason for the missing record.  If it appears that the item has not been 
cataloged, contact GPO to request that it be done.  CU-B has been 
working on an item record conversion and has cataloged over 1500 items in
the past six months.  This may explain why a record will appear in their 
catalog and yet not appear in a particular library's Marcive tape load. The 
group also discussed overlay issues.

10.  Collection development guidelines for selective federal depository 
libraries was discussed.  The School of Mines followed the Depository
Library Manual to compose their statement.  CSU used the model sent out by GPO. 
A brief discussion of whether to circulate CDs followed.  Most of the
libraries indicated that they do circulate their CDs.  CU-B has an insert 
with barcode and tattle tape which is put into each jewel case.

11.  No unfinished business.

12.  New business.  Rob Jackson shared DPL's internet policy and a brief 
discussion of this topic followed.
     Sharon Johnson gave an update on the t-shirts.  ALA GODORT may make 
these available from the vendor.
     The Knight-Ridder Dialog through CARL does not include NTIS, although 
there are a number of government related files that are available.  This
topic  will be discussed at the next meeting.

13.  There was no time left for Library Significant Events.

The meeting adjourned at 1 p.m.

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Suzanne N. Taylor
Documents Librarian
The Libraries
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO  80523
E-Mail:  staylor@manta.colostate.edu
Voice Mail:   970-491-1880