GOPIG Meeting July 25th
Michener Library, University of Northern Colorado

Present were: Lou Petterchak, DPL; Rob Richards, CU Law; Dallas 
Marshall, CU Law; Shirley Soenksen, UNC; Sharon Partridge, JCPL; Tim Byrne, 
CU Norlin; Fred Schmidt, CSU; Gary Morell, Broomfield Public; Lisa Stomberg, 
Mines; Debbie Hollis, CU Norlin; Mark Anderson, UNC.



1. We toured Michener's newly reorganized Government Documents 
Department.

2. Louise reported on the ALA summer conference:

	GPO Funding - 1.5 m cut from the FY98 appropriations request by the 
Senate Appropriations Commitee, but GPO people seemed satisfied.

	The transfer of Government Information to private publishers - the 
Joint Committee on Printing was concerned about the Journal of the National 
Cancer Institute, and the the fugitive document problem in general. 50% 
of all documents don't make it into the DLP.

	Duncan Aldridge wrote the collection management plan for GPO Access.

	North American Industrial Code System - the Census Bureau will use 6 
digit NAICS codes for the '97 Economic Censuses (see the April 9th, 1997 
FR for more details). 

	Gil Baldwin is working on standards for electronic information.

	No one has received any DOE Reports since last October.

	ERIC Microfiche will cease after FY 1998 and only be available 
electronically. 

	Core Documents of Democracy - GPO is soliciting suggestions for what 
should be included.

	As of April there had been 4.5 million retrievals from GPO Access.

	GILS update - more comprehensive searching of all GILS sites will be 
possible.

	Congressional Hearings will be available on GPO Access.

	NTIS -last 10 years are available from FedWorld.

	There was a demonstration of GPO Access with sgml language - tag 
searching.

Title 44 revisions:

	Hearings have been held on legislation that would substantially 
change Title 44. The major features of the bill are: GPO would become an 
independent executive branch agency and the Superintendent of Documents 
SOD would be a presidential appointee. 
	So far, nothing has been introduced into either house.

DIALOG@CARL -the state pilot project was discussed, and a list of 
Government databases that are included in DIALOG, was distributed.

CU is writing a grant proposal to fund a retrospective cataloging of 
state documents project.

Deb Hollis reported on the CLA GODORT election. Mark Anderson, who 
nominated himself and ran unopposed, was elected Vice-chair; chair-elect for 97-98.

European Union Celex Database - CU has a CD-ROM version of the Celex
database which greatly simplifies finding info from the European Union.