Regional Depository Conference
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Regional Depository Conference |
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On October 30 we will have a gathering such as has not occurred in our
region since representatives of the three states met in the early 1960's and
decided to locate the Regional Depository in Orono. We are going to look at
depository service from "top to bottom." Everything is on the table.
I hope you are as excited about the conference and its possibilities as I.
The mission of the conference is to address your major needs for information
and ideas on the future of government information service. The title of
the conference and the suggested agenda are deliberately provocative, but it
is not framed as a debate. Instead this should be a time to air all the
significant concerns for the future of depository libraries, and to make reasonable
progress, that day, in how to deal with them and plot our future course,
individually and collectively.
Duncan Aldrich
Duncan Aldrich is head of the Business and Government Information Center in the University of Nevada, Reno, Library.
Mr. Aldrich has served as Chair of the Government Documents Round Table (1993-94), worked one year as an expert
consultant to the Government Printing Office (1996-97), and was Chair of the Federal Depository Library Council to the
Public Printer (1999-2000). Mr. Aldrich has published several articles on the use of electronic government information
products in libraries, and he was co-coordinator of the Chicago Conference on the Future of Federal Government
Information (October 1993).
Gil
Baldwin
Gil Baldwin is the Director of the Library Programs Service (LPS), U.S. Government Printing Office. LPS' mission
includes administering the Federal Depository Library Program, the Cataloging and Indexing Program, and the distribution
component of the International Exchange System Program for the Library of Congress. Mr. Baldwin began his career with
GPO in 1973, and since then has held a variety of staff and management positions involving the Federal Depository Program.
He has a B.A. in history from College of William and Mary (1971), and the M.L.S. from Florida State University (1973), and
pursued additional postgraduate work in Library and Information Science at Catholic University of America (1975).
(Institutional
web page)
John Cocklin is Government Documents Librarian, Baker/Berry Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire since 1996. He has a B.A. (History) from Ohio State University, M.L.S. from Kent State University. He is Dartmouth's New Hampshire and Canadian Depository coordinator, United Nations documents coordinator, and bibliographer/selector for law and genealogy. He was Map Librarian at Dartmouth College from 1996 to 1999. His publications include a paper presented at the 1997 ASIS Midyear Meeting and an article for the Journal of Government Information. Recently he was named to Dartmouth's Digital Library Leadership and Management Group.
Paul Donovan is Law Librarian, Vermont Department of Libraries, Montpelier, Vermont. He received his B.S. from New Hampshire College and his M.L.S. from the University at Albany. He has been with the Vermont Department of Libraries since 1976, with duties relating to U.S. government documents beginning in 1980. He has been the Law Librarian since 1998, with responsibilities including overseeing the U.S. Government Documents collection. In 1996, he was awarded West Publishing Company's Excellence in Government Law Librarianship Award, and in 2001 received a Service Award from the Vermont Bar Association. (Personal web page)
Virginia W. Hopcroft is Government Documents Librarian, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Prior to joining the Bowdoin Library staff in 1992, she was a reference librarian at John Curtis Memorial Library, the public library in Brunswick. She received her B.A. from Brown University and her M.L.S. from Long Island University. She has given presentations about online government information at annual Maine Libraries Conferences and at the 1998 Federal Depository Library Conference. She has also served as Chair of the Government Documents Section of the Maine Library Association.
Acknowledgement of Group Discussion Leaders
We are grateful to the following individuals for graciously agreeing to take on a very open-ended task in leading the small discussion groups, whose number and individual themes will need to be decided on the spot! Sherrie Bergman, Librarian, Bowdoin College; Stephen Bloom, Director, University of Southern Maine Library; Elaine Stanley, Reference and Information Specialist, Maine State Library; Deborah Wilcox, Interim Library Director, Southern New Hampshire University; Michael York, Director, New Hampshire State Library.
About our wrapup session facilitator
Linda B. Johnson is Head of the Government Documents Department, Dimond Library, University of New Hampshire, since 1996. She received her BA and MLS at the University of Arizona in 1971 and 1974 respectively; and an MA at Santa Clara University in 1988. She served as the Head of Government Documents Dept. at Santa Clara University, 1974-1988, then San Jose State University,1988 - 1996, where she also taught the Government Information Resources class in the graduate library school, 1994-1996. She was active in the California State Library Association Government Documents Chapter, is a member of ALA/ GODORT, and is currently Chair of the Government Publications Librarians of New England. Her latest publication is a chapter on "The Environment" in Government Online: One-Click Access to 3,400 Federal and State Websites. John Maxymuk, ed., 2001.
(All activities in Blue Room, Black Bear Inn unless otherwise noted)
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Monday, October 29, 2001 |
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| 5:00 - 6:30 pm EST | Wine and cheese reception - C Room - all conference participants invited |
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Tuesday, October 30, 2001 |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 am EST | Registration; coffee, etc. |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Welcome – Joyce Rumery, Acting Director of Libraries, The University of Maine |
| 9:10 - 9:40 | “The federal depository picture in the Tri-State Region: overview of the last two decades, progress and problems” – Frank Wihbey, Head, Government Documents and Microforms Dept., Fogler Library, The University of Maine |
| 9:40 - 9:45 | Questions; comments |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | “The Diminishing Librarian? Depositories in 2006? (Why not to have federal depositories?)” – Duncan M. Aldrich, Head, Business and Government Information Center, University Library, University of Nevada, Reno |
| 10:30 -10:45 | Break; coffee, etc. |
| 10:45 -11:30 | “The Game is Changing -- Why Should Your Library Stay In? / Evolution of federal depositories in the age of electronic services” Gil Baldwin, Director, Library Programs Service, U.S. Government Printing Office |
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11:30 -12:00 |
Questions and comments for D. Aldrich and G. Baldwin |
| 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 1:50 | Panel: “Delivering government information to our patrons in the digital age: 'live and in person (virtually)' ” Panelists: John Cocklin, Government Documents Librarian, Dartmouth College; Virginia W. Hopcroft, Head, Government Documents Librarian, Bowdoin College Library; Paul Donovan, Law Librarian, Vermont Department of Libraries |
| 1:50 - 2:00 | Comments |
| 2:00 - 2:10 | Break |
| 2:10 - 2:40 |
“Strategizing for better government documents service: a new plan” - small
groups, with discussion leaders: Sherrie Bergman, Librarian, Bowdoin
College; Stephen Bloom, Director, University of
Southern Maine Library; Elaine Stanley, Reference and Information Specialist, Maine State Library; Deborah Wilcox, Interim Library Director, Southern New Hampshire
University; Michael York, Director, New Hampshire State Library
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| 2:40 - 3:00 | Reports from small groups |
| 3:00 - 3:55 | “Organizing ourselves to carry out change in government information service. How shall we follow through on today’s conference” -- Facilitator: Linda B. Johnson, Head, Government Documents Department, University of New Hampshire Library |
| 3:55 | Announcements |
| 4:00 | Adjournment |
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Optional activities -- at Fogler Library, on the University of Maine campus |
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| 4:30 - 5:00 pm | Tour of Government Documents Department, Fogler Library |
| 5:00 - 5:15 | Tour and demonstration of GeoScan Spatial and Numeric Data Service |
| 5:15 - 5:20 | Tour of Library Electronic Classroom |
| 5:20 - 5:40 | Tour of Library Annex facility (includes 8 minute walk to building) |
fax: 207-866-7433.Black Bear Inn:
front desk: 207-866-7120
For further information about the conference, please contact Frank Wihbey, frankw@umit.maine.edu
To register for the conference, please e-mail Kathleen Brown, kathleen.brown@umit.maine.edu
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