GODORT (Government Documents Round Table)

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The mission of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) is to (1) To provide a forum for discussion of problems, concerns, and for exchange of ideas by librarians working with government documents; (2) to provide a force for initiating and supporting programs to increase availability, use, and bibliographic control of documents; (3) to increase communication between documents librarians and other librarians; (4) to contribute to the extension and improvement of education and training of documents librarians.

Learn more about GODORT on the ALA website.

  • 1.  draft response to GPO policy - please comment!

    Posted Jul 24, 2014 10:50 AM
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    At the Federal Documents Task Force meeting at Annual last month, Mary Alice Baish announced GPO's intention to explore a change in FDLP policy that would allow regional depositories to substitute authenticated content on FDsys for tangible materials held at least seven years and, with Superintendent of Documents approval, discard these publications.


    FDTF voted to create a working group to develop GODORT's response, and this group has drafted a letter to send to Steering for discussion and endorsement. 


    We welcome comments and discussion regarding this draft response. Please send all comments to Shari Laster (slaster@library.ucsb.edu) no later than Wednesday, July 30th, so that they can be incorporated into the document sent to Steering at the end of that week.


    Members of the working group are:



    • Aimee Quinn, UNM

    • Barbie Selby, UVa

    • James Jacobs, Stanford

    • Jill Vassilakos-Long, CSU-SB (outgoing FDTF coordinator)

    • Shari Laster, UCSB

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    FDTF-GODORT-draft-response-July2014.pdf   336 KB 1 version


  • 2.  RE: draft response to GPO policy - please comment!

    Posted Jul 29, 2014 11:19 AM

    Just a reminder to please submit any comments on this draft to slaster@library.ucsb.edu by Wednesday the 30th. Thank you to those who have shared feedback thus far: all of it has been thoughtful and will help improve the document.