Questionnaire for FDLP Selectives

Update for Tues. 11/30, The questionnaire is ready for Selectives' responses.
Please scroll down to the end of this section that has the posts, and fill out the form. To see the whole form, you'll probably need to use the scroll bar within the form itself.

If you have questions, please contact me directly at sbraunst@lsu.edu. Thanks--and looking forward to your answers and comments!

Reporting from last month's fall 2010 Depository Library Conference in Arlington, VA--the High Points:

The migration from GPO Access to FDsys is on target and should be completed by the end of December 2010.

Ithaka S+R will once again do a study on the FDLP--this time at the request of GPO. Please open and take a look at the website set up by Ithaka so that you can understand the purpose and process of this study.

GPO has given us some new promotional tools, among them a "User Survey." Click here to link to Lori Smith's announcement of this survey, and then follow the link from there to participate.

UPDATES ON THE ASERL PROPOSAL FOR A COLLABORATIVE FEDERAL DEPOSITORY PROGRAM (CFDP)

Read the October 2010 Program Update found on the ASERL site. After you open this link to the main page, look in the right hand frame for "Managing FDLP Collections Across the Region"; then click on "Project Page." After opening that page, scroll down to "Current Program Activity Update."

Details pertaining to the plan which have been discussed by members of the ASERL community include the following:

• Handling ILL requests
• Disposal lists policies and procedures
• Digitization facilitation and modeling
• Questions on how to handle the listing of microfiche

If you have specific questions or comments, either leave them on this post or email me at sbraunst@lsu.edu

Louisiana Docs Librarians Participate in National Library Advocacy Day in Washington, DC

On Tuesday, June 29, ALA sponsored a rally and legislative day for attendees at the 2010 Annual Conference in DC. Two of your docs colleagues, myself and Melanie Sims (who is also immediate past-president of Louisiana Library Association) attended the event along with 2000 other library supporters.

Melanie and I were joined by other Louisiana librarians to make up a seven-person delegation to the rally and to visit both of our senators and one of our congressmen on Capitol Hill.

In the photo, left-right: Stephanie Braunstein, Head Government Documents/Microforms, LSU; Felix Unaeze, Director of Library Services, Grambling University; Cecelia Beaubouef, School Librarian, Park Ridge Elementary; Melanie Sims, Government Information Librarian, LSU Law; Joseph Sbisa, Director, Washington Parish Library; Jacqueline Jones, Associate Dean of Learning Resource Center, Baton Rouge Community College; and Marilyn Lee, Head Serial Librarian, Xavier University of Louisiana.

Resources on Oil Spill in the Gulf

LSU Libraries has created an online subject guide for links to information on the Deepwater Oil Spill:

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/ref/oilspill/

In this guide, you will find a link to our Gov Docs page that has its own links to this kind of information. Here it is if you want to go to it directly:

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/govdocs/

I will be sending an email out to selected Louisiana Federal Depositories asking if they would consider collaborating on some kind of promotional material (in electronic format) to increase awareness of our collective resources for researchers and other interested parties who will be working on this topic that is so important to our state. My email will provide the URL for this blog so that interested parties can communicate their interest.

Looking forward to hearing about this from LA Docs folks. I am also thinking we might want to collaborate on a Browse Topics page. If you do not receive an email from me but are interested in working on this, please contact me at sbraunst@lsu.edu.

Who's Who in ALA and LLA!

Our Gov Docs colleagues have been active in our national and local library associations. On the national level, I just received this list of LA librarians running for ALA positions:



Candidate Name/ Ballot/ Position/

YOUNG, TERRY / AASL / DIRECTOR-ELECT REGION V

KING, GENNICE WILLIAMS /ACRL_AFAS / VICE-CHAIR-CHAIR-ELECT

DAUGHERTY, ALICE / ACRL_DLS / MEMBER-AT-LARGE

ARNOLD, PABBY / ALSC / 2012 CALDECOTT COMMITTEE

GRIFFIN, GAIL GUIDRY / ALTAFF / TRUSTEE SECTION CHAIR ELECT

BROWN, SONNET ERIN / GODORT / NOMINATING COMMITTEE


Sonnet Brown is one of ours--from UNO.

On the local front, three docs colleagues received awards at the LLA Awards Ceremony:

Lori Smith of Southeastern won the Outstanding Academic Librarian Award

Ferol Foos of the State Library of Louisiana won the Margaret T. Lane Award

Howard L. Coy of Vernon Parish Library won the LLA Meritorious Service Award

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

Event at Law Library of Louisiana

On Thursday, Dec. 10, the Law Library of Louisiana--a selective FDL--hosted an event at which Andrew Laas, of LexisNexis, gave a presentation on using the online Serial Set, with special emphasis on the maps. The event was billed as a way for local attorneys to earn CLE units, but knowing how to gather information from the Serial Set is beneficial to Gov Docs Librarians and Staff as well.

No matter how your library provides access to the Serial Set--in print only, or online via either LexisNexis or Readex, or both--the wondrous and amazing documents found in the Set should be shared with patrons needing information on our federal government, past and present.

FALL 2009 FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARY CONFERENCE

Got back late Thursday, so this is the first moment I've had to post from the conference. I'll just hit the high points (or what I can remember without having my copious notes with me here at home!).

The Louisiana Contingent consisted of: Rita Franks (LaTech), Lori Smith (Southeastern), Rebecca Blakeley (McNeese), Miriam Childs (Law Lib of Louisiana), Sonnet Brown (UNO)--a first-time attendee!, and Stephanie Braunstein (LSU)--me, of course.
Three of us gave presentations, and that's a very impressive showing for our state!

Because my presentation on the first day of conference was held at the very same time as Lori Smith's (she presented on her move from a free-standing department to a part of a larger department), I did not get a chance to catch hers. I heard from others who did attend that it was highly informative. I'll let her post for herself and give more details.

I presented as part of a 6-member panel. We were all chosen to present our institution's version of using "click-throughs" to count GPO PURL hits from our OPACs. I talked about how LOUIS provides this service for us. There seems to be a lot of interest in this topic; the room was packed.

The following day, Rebecca Blakeley dazzled the crowd with her presentation on Digital Depositories. This presentation was also SRO and used some extra special technology: Rebecca gave the formal PowerPoint portion of the presentation, and then opened up a live video session with James A. Jacobs, Data Services Librarian Emeritus, University of California San Diego--who could not attend but answered audience questions via Skype.

By now GPO should have all of the PowerPoint presentations available for viewing through the FDLP Desktop. I know I've left out lots of important details, but you can go to the Desktop and get more information there.