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.  Ideas and Opinions Needed for the Direction of IDTF!

    Posted Oct 15, 2015 03:40 PM

    Please help guide the direction for the International Documents Task Force!


    As you all know, GODORT Chair Stephen Woods and Immediate Past Chair Helen Sheehy sent out a request for all GODORT units to begin coming up with a five-year plan. As the Coordinator of IDTF and being fairly new to this amazing GODORT community, I would love to hear people's ideas for the direction of IDTF. I would love to have some ideas for us to discuss at midwinter. 


    Stephen, Justin Otto (Federal Documents Task Force Coordinator), Jennifer Huck (State and Local Documents Coordinator)and myself  have started to have some  conversations about the role of task forces and their relation to GODORT and we also continued the conversation during the Fireside Chat last week. 


    Feel free to either respond to the post or email me directly  susan.paterson@ubc.ca  


    Many thanks for your interest and I appreciate any help you can offer in establishing a path forward for IDTF!


    Susan 



  • 2.  RE: Ideas and Opinions Needed for the Direction of IDTF!

    Posted Oct 16, 2015 04:41 PM

    As some of you know, I'm working with the Ad Hoc Committee on GODORT Reorganization; and some of the ideas we've had concerning reorganization are as simple as renaming certain units.  Well, maybe it isn't that simple; but it's been suggested that the Task Forces be renamed Interest Groups--and that within those interest groups, task forces to work on specific timely issues would be formed and then disbanded when the issues were resolved.  So, if this were to happen, IDTF, for example, would be where those who are interested in all aspects of international documents would meet up, decide if there were timely issues, and then form appropriately sized task forces to address those issues--within a specific time line.  In a sense, that's what IDTF has already been doing informally for quite awhile; but this change of name and internal hierarchy would formalize better the mission of that unit.