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DOCUMENTS ROUNDTABLE NEWS
Number 70, June 2005
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As the Chair of ILA GODORT, I am pleased to invite you to attend the 2005 Annual Summer Workshop. We have an informative day of activities planned and look forward to seeing you there. As the workshop coincides with the College Hill Arts Festival (also being held on the UNI Campus), you may want to spend some time over the lunch break or after the workshop browsing the wonderful art work. Links to the agenda and registration information are included below.
Also in this issue you will find information about the GODORT sponsored activities we have planned for the fall ILA Conference. Make sure to check them out!
Becky Lutkenhaus, University of Northern Iowa
Laundry List of Issues for Iowa Libraries
Iowa libraries have been quietly contributing to several major GPO initiatives. At the July 15 th meeting of Iowa GODORT Marianne Mason will share with the group the impact that GPO projects are having on Iowa libraries and the positive impact Iowa libraries are making nationally. Including:
The survey to identify essential titles in tangible format (back to the drawing board)
See you on July 15 th
Marianne Mason
Federal Documents Specialist and FDLP Regional Librarian
The University of Iowa
Libraries
GODORT 2005 Annual Summer Workshop
Mark your calendars! The 2005 Annual Summer Workshop will be held at the University of Northern Iowa of Friday, July 15. Anyone with an interest in government information is welcome to participate. The workshop will include updates on federal and Iowa state documents and will feature sessions on accessing the papers of Senator Charles Grassley within the UNI library and the services of the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration. A complete agenda and registration form are available on the ILA GODORT web site at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/ilagodort/. Please contact ILA GODORT Chair Becky Lutkenhaus at becky.lutkenhaus@uni.edu or 319-273-6327 if you have any questions.
GODORT at ILA: Events Finalized for the Fall Conference
GODORT is sponsoring a session titled “Moving Forward with Data-Driven Decisions from the Census” at the Fall ILA Conference. Beth Henning, the coordinator of the State Library's State Data Center program, will show participants how to use a variety of information products from the census, including the American Community Survey, to describe local communities and their needs. The American Community Survey is a new nationwide survey designed by the Census Bureau to provide communities with more timely information about how their demographic composition is changing. This survey will also be replacing the long form questionnaire in the 2010 decennial census. Please plan to attend and learn how the Census Bureau and the State Data Center’s data products can assist you.
GODORT will hold its annual breakfast/business meeting at the ILA Conference on Friday, October 21st from 7:30-8:25 a.m. During the meeting we will elect our officers and discuss our goals for the coming year, so please plan to attend. If you are interested in serving as an officer, please contact Nominating Committee Chair Brett Cloyd at brett-cloyd@uiowa.edu. If you are interested in participating in committee work, please contact Chair Becky Lutkenhaus at becky.lutkenhaus@uni.edu.
Economic data users will want to mark August 11th or 12th on their calendars. That's when experts from the U.S. Census Bureau will be in Iowa to conduct economic census workshops in Des Moines and Iowa City. The 3-hour, hands-on workshops will cover uses of economic census data, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), economic census products, working with economic census data on the web, and annual business data from the Census Bureau. There will be time for exercises on the web and ample opportunities for questions and answers. The workshops are being hosted by the State Library of Iowa's State Data Center program and The University of Iowa Libraries.
Small business development centers, planners and economic development professionals, business associations and chambers of commerce, college faculty, government agencies, libraries, and local business media should plan to attend.
Des Moines: 1:30-4:30, August 11, 2005
Iowa City: 9-noon, August 12, 2005
The workshops are free and open to the public but seating is limited. You must register in advance by going to http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/guide/ec02conf.htm or call Beth Henning, coordinator of the State Data Center program in the State Library of Iowa, at (800) 248-4483 for details.
FDLP Interagency Depository Seminar
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/events/interagency.html
June 8-15, 2005
Washington, D.C.
ALA Annual Conference
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2005a/home.htm
June 23-29, 2005
Chicago, IL
Iowa GODORT Annual Summer Workshop
Agenda: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/ilagodort/workshop05.htm
Registration: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/ilagodort/workshop05_reg.htm
July 15, 2005
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA
ILA Annual Conference
Economic Census Workshop
http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/guide/ec02conf.htm
August 11, 2005 Des Moines 1:30-4:30
August 12, 2005 Iowa City: 9-noon,
Iowa Library Association Conference
October 19-21, 2005
Grand River Center
Dubuque, IA
Becky Lutkenhaus, Chair
University of Northern Iowa
becky.lutkenhaus@uni.edu
Brett Cloyd, Vice-chair/Chair-elect
University of Iowa
brett-cloyd@uiowa.edu
Cory Quist, Secretary/Treasurer
State Law Library
cory.quist@lib.state.ia.us
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