Fellow members of GODORT:
I'm sure that most of you already know that the Government Printing Office has retained Ithaka S+R to help develop a model for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) that would more efficiently accomplish its mission in a rapidly changing digital environment. To date Ithaka has released three documents:
- A background paper that offers a brief overview of the Program, and introduces some of the challenges and opportunities that will be addressed by Ithaka S+R in their final report.
- An environmental scan that gives a broad overview of the issues and trends impacting libraries and government publishing.
- A white paper describing and analyzing existing models of library collaboration that may help to inform the development of new models for the Program.
Your feedback on these documents is vital to the success of the modeling project -- and no, it's not too late. Ithaka expects that any further comments made before January 31, 2011, can be accommodated in the final report.
For more information on the project, and to submit your comments, please visit http://fdlpmodeling.net/, or email Ithaka S+R at fdlp-modeling@ithaka.org.
Geoff Swindells
Chair, GODORT