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DOCUMENTS ROUNDTABLE NEWS
Published by the Government
Documents
Editor: Barbara Corson
Roundtable, Iowa Library
Association
State Library of Iowa
Number 58
May 2002
Contributed articles are
welcome. Contact Barbara Corson,
State Library of
Iowa,
515-281-4352, fax 515-281-4118, barb.corson@lib.state.ia.us
Message
from the Chair
By Joyce Lindstrom, Iowa
State University
Thanks
to Marianne Mason (Vice-Chair/Chair Elect) and Barbara Corson
(Secretary/Treasurer) for agreeing to serve on the Executive Board for
2002.
Several
activities have been planned for this year. As the Census data is continuing to be
released, we have invited Dr. Willis Goudy, Professor of Sociology at ISU, to be
our speaker at the 17th annual Documents Workshop on July 12 and Hank Zalatel
will be presenting a concurrent session at the ILA Fall Conference.
If you haven't renewed your
membership in the Government Documents Roundtable yet, please consider doing
so. Besides receiving the
newsletter, you will be able to attend the annual documents workshop for
free!
We would appreciate any input
that you have concerning issues of interest or concern to documents librarians
and users. This is your Roundtable,
and we want to address your needs.
We also welcome your contributions to the newsletter.
________________________________________________________________
Summer
Workshop July 12 in Ames
The Workshop Committee is busy preparing for the July 12, 2002 workshop in Ames. The workshop will be held at the ISU Library and the morning session will feature Willis J. Goudy, Professor of Sociology at ISU, who will speak on "Population Change in Iowa and the Nation." Dr. Goudy will highlight trends indicated by Census 2000 and hopes to include the Iowa data scheduled for release in early June. Registration forms will be forthcoming. Other sessions will be announced shortly.
Please reserve this date and plan on
joining us for an informative session.
MINUTES OF THE ILA/GODORT BUSINESS MEETING
October 2001
Minutes
GODORT Annual Meeting
October
12, 2001
15 members in attendance
Joy Tofteland, President, called the meeting to order at 8:00 a.m. Hank Zaletel made a motion that minutes from the last meeting be approved and Mary McInroy seconded. The motion was unanimously approved.
Joy asked if the delivery of the GODORT newsletter electronically was working all right. As there were no complaints, it was agreed to continue this practice.
The floor was opened for nominations for officers for 2002. The results were:
Chair:
Joyce Lindstrum, ISU
Vice
Chair:
Marianne Mason, UofI
Secretary/Treasurer
Barbara Corson, State Library of Iowa
Hank
moved that the officers be approved and Carolyn Kohler seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously
approved.
A
committee was discussed to revise the State Plan for Federal Documents
Depository Libraries in Iowa as per the request made by the Superintendent of
Documents. The State Plan was
developed in 1984 and everyone agreed that it is time to revisit it. The committee will be composed of the
following people:
Barbara Corson, State Library of Iowa, Chair
Hank
Zaletel, DOT
Joyce
Lindstrum, ISU
Mary
Mason, UofI
Steve
Ostrem, UofI
Edith
Ericson, Clinton Public Library
Maeve
Clark, Iowa City Public Library
The committee will do most of its work via e-mail. Carolyn remembered that the last State Plan took about two years to develop. Barbara Corson asked that the committee also look into revising the State Plan for the State Documents Depository Program. Everyone agreed to this.
Joy asked if anyone had any suggestions for the 2002 Spring Workshop. Several topics were discussed including having Willis Goudy, from ISU, and his assistant give a presentation about new data from the 2000 census and having an update on changes with the Federal Documents Depository Library Program. It was also suggested that GODORT sponsor a pre-conference next year at the ILA conference with an Access database workshop.
Joy
also asked for volunteers to host the Spring Workshop, but none were
forthcoming.
Joy
mentioned that a change has been made to the by-laws of ILA and all Roundtables
and Forums are now called Subdivisions.
She asked if GODORT should now become GODOS. Several people said that they preferred
to remain GODORT, as that is the acronym for the national organization. It was unclear whether GODORT would have
to change its name and so no action was taken.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 a.m.
Respectfully submitted, Barbara Corson, Secretary/Treasurer.
2001 Annual Report
Government Documents
Roundtable
Iowa
Library Association
PURPOSE
The
purpose of the Government Documents Roundtable is to promote documents library
service by providing an avenue for discussion of problems and concerns and for
exchange of ideas among librarians working with government publications in all
types of libraries.
ACTIVITIES
A successful 16th GODORT Summer Workshop, Access, Process, and How Do We Get There From Here, was held at The University of Iowa on July 13, 2001. GODORT also sponsored a session at the ILA Fall Conference in Dubuque at which Joyce Lindstrom, Government Information Librarian at Iowa State University, spoke on Finding Government Information in the 21st Century. The GODORT Executive Board mounted a display of Library Journal's 2000 Notable Government Documents and Iowa Depository Program Core Documents. The Iowa documents were given away in a drawing.
GOALS
ACHIEVED
Published two issues of Documents
Roundtable News
Organized a well-received
Government Documents Workshop
Sponsored a session at the ILA Fall
Conference
Mounted
a government documents display at the Fall Conference
FINANCIAL REPORT
Cash Balance 1/102 $1067.30
Income
Dues
$ 135
Expenses
$0
Cash Balance
1/1/02 $1202.30
GOALS
& OBJECTIVES FOR 2001
Publish
the GODORT newsletter on the Web
Sponsor
a concurrent sessions at ILA Fall Conference
Sponsor
a summer workshop related to the US census
2001 OFFICERS
CHAIR: Joy Tofteland, Kirkendall Public
Library, Ankeny
VICE-CHAIR: :
Joyce Lindstrom, Iowa State University
SECRETARY/TREASURER: Barbara Corson, State Library of Iowa
2002 OFFICERS
CHAIR:
: Joyce Lindstrom , Iowa State
University
VICE-CHAIR: Marianne Mason, University of Iowa
SECRETARY/TREASURER: Barbara Corson, State Library of
Iowa
Membership Update
Reminder: If you have not already done so, please
renew your GODORT
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