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ROUNDTABLE NEWS
Number 72, December 2005
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It has been a pleasure to serve as GODORT Chair over the past year. We succeeded in bringing information to the Iowa documents community and are busy planning for next year. Iowa City will be the site of the 2006 Annual Summer Workshop on July 14. GODORT also plans to award its first ever grant to help a member defray the expenses of attending the Fall Depository Library Conference in Washington, D.C. (see information below). Remember that we want to develop educational opportunities that serve your needs, so let us know if there are government information related topics you’d like to learn more about.
I encourage all of you to be active members in the coming year. Spread the word that GODORT isn’t only for depositories or libraries with paper documents in their collections. It is for anyone who is interested in, organizes, facilitates access to, or uses government information regardless of format. With the shift to the electronic distribution of government information this catches a large number of us!
- Becky Lutkenhaus, Chair
The 2005 Annual Report has been submitted to the Iowa Library Association. The report may be viewed at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/ilagodort/annual/ar_2005.html.The 2006 Executive Board was elected at the Fall Business Meeting held during the Iowa Library Association Conference on Friday, October 20. Thanks to all who ran for office and congratulations to our newly elected board.
Brett Cloyd, Chair
University of Iowa
brett-cloyd@uiowa.edu
Cory Quist, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
State Law Library
cory.quist@lib.state.ia.us
Michael May, Secretary/Treasurer
Carnegie-Stout Dubuque Public Library
mmay@stout.dubuque.lib.ia.us
The Federal Depository Conference Award
The Federal Depository Library Conference Award was created to support continuing education in documents librarianship and to promote greater understanding of current Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) issues. These meetings offer a great opportunity to learn more about government information issues.
The recipient will be given an award to use towards the cost of attending either the Spring or Fall FDL Conference of the year in which it is awarded. The GODORT Executive Board will determine the amount based on the budget for that year. The recommended award amount is between $350-$500.
The award will be given bi-annually to a member of Iowa GODORT. To find out more and to apply on-line go to the GODORT website at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/ilagodort/fdlc/index.html
We would like to make an award for use in 2006. Deadline: December 30, 2005
Barbara Corson
State Library of Iowa
Awards Committee Chair
2005 Fall Federal Depository Library Council Meeting and Conference
With the Federal Depository Library Council Meeting and Conference a month past, as an attendee I’ve had time to mull over the discussions that took place. This is the first conference in my memory that was planned and organized by the Council (librarians) rather than by GPO. Most notably, the significant focus of discussions was the “Vision” document that was also drafted by Council http://www.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/dlc_vision_09_02_2005.pdf In a nutshell the document asks what the future holds for libraries in the Web-based world of government information. The document “suggests new and reinvigorated roles for Federal depository libraries.”
The conference was structured around topic-based discussion groups covering:
My simplified intrepretation of both the document and the conference is that responsibility of effectively managing the web envirionment and creatively delivering government information lies each of us with or without a depository program.
Find the executive summary of the proceedings at: http://www.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/proceedings/05fall/dlc_ex_summary_111405.pdf
For the full proceedings see: http://www.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/proceedings/05fall/index.html
Marianne Mason
Reference Librarian and Federal Documents Specialist
Reference and Library Instruction
The University of Iowa Libraries
100 Main Library
Iowa City , IA 52242-1420
marianne-mason@uiowa.edu
Voice: (319) 335-5538
FAX: (319) 335-5900
To order Federal tax forms for your library:
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
~ Benjamin Franklin, Nov. 13, 1789
IRS Tax Forms Outlet Program (TFOP)
Formerly Bank, Post
Office, Library (BPOL) Program
Phone: 1-800-829-2765
Web: http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=97920,00.html
TFOP Mailing List: http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/page/0,,id=10226,00.html
To order Iowa tax forms for your library:
State of Iowa Department of Revenue
Bulk Forms for 2005
Phone: 515-281-5370 or 515-281-5687
Web: https://www.idrf.state.ia.us/taxforms/index.asp
ALA
Midwinter Meeting
January 20-25, 2006
San Antonio, TX
Annual
FDLP Selection Update Cycle
December 1-January31
2005
Biennial Survey of Depository Libraries
Will run through December 31, 2005
Iowa GODORT Summer Workshop
July 14, 2005
Iowa City, IA
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