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.  Groups within LibGuides

    Posted Oct 14, 2022 02:33 PM
    Hi folks - 

    Would it be possible to create a few groups in LibGuides to help organize GODORT guides?
    And then assign guides to the groups (if you want a guide in more than one group, making a redirect guide is one solution).
    Also - I think Tech Committee is thinking about Subjects while developing Best Practices.
    Some groups I suggest might be Subjects instead.
    I will list existing groups and subjects at the end.

    Groups allows for volunteers in one group to have a different account type specific to that group (example State Agency Database), and limited permissions for other groups.
    Many other reasons I can list if people want me to.

    My suggestions:
    • Conferences & Meetings
      • Either keep together or split up meetings/Friday chats and conferences - maybe make a subject?
      • Conferences
        • especially helpful when there isn't a standard format for naming guides
        • Examples GODORT 2021 Midwinter Virtual ; 2021 ALA Annual Virtual Conference, etc.
    • Projects
      • State Agency Database (already a group although 
      • Voting & Election tool kit - depends on what Ed Comm wants to do.
    • Committees 
      • GIC - already a group
      • Cataloging - already a group
      • Tech Committee
      • Education Committee
        • Voting & Elections Tool Kit - either a separate group (manage volunteer accounts) or make a subject.
      • Other committees too
    Thanks!

    Jenny

    GODORT LibGuide Groups


    ID Name Description Type Guide Count
    16681 Cataloging Public 4
    17160 General Public 7
    16537 Government Information for Children (GIC) Public 24
    8899 Reorganization Public 1
    16680 Sandbox for practicing All accounts are granted access to the sandbox to play around and learn how libguides work. Nothing public or permanent resides here and you can't hurt anything. Internal 2
    12481 State Agency Databases Project Guides related to the work of the State Agency Databases Project Public 77

    GODORT LIBGUIDE SUBJECTS

    ID Name Friendly URL Guide Count Expert Count Content Count
    122119 Agriculture & Food Sources 2 0 10
    149840 Arts 1 0 0
    122120 Business, Finance & Economy 2 0 9
    156298 Cataloging 2 3 0
    146825 Children, Students & Teachers 15 1 7
    122121 Community & Social Services 2 0 3
    122122 Crime, Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement 2 0 4
    122123 Earth & the Environment 1 0 8
    122124 Education 5 0 8
    122125 Government Agencies & Elected Officials 7 0 7
    122126 Government Finances & Contracts 2 0 5
    122127 Health, Medicine & Safety 3 0 6
    122128 History, People & Culture 3 0 17
    122129 Jobs & Unemployment 1 0 1
    122130 Laws, Legislative Materials, and Legal Issues 3 0 4
    122131 Licensing 1 0 6
    122132 Military & Veterans 1 0 3
    122133 Recreation, Travel & Tourism 1 0 2
    122134 Science & Technology 2 0 3
    122135 Statistics, Data & Mapping/GIS 2 0 6
    122136 Transportation 1 0 3
    122137 Voting & Elections 3 0 7


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    Jenny Groome
    Reference/Government Documents/Instruction
    Connecticut State Library
    She/Her/Hers
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  • 2.  RE: Groups within LibGuides

    Posted Oct 17, 2022 02:18 PM
    Hi Jenny,
    Thanks for bringing this topic up!

    At UW, we lean heavily towards utilizing "Subjects" over "Groups" in our organizational schema, but that may or may not be the best approach for GODORT. I think some advantages to organizing guides by "Subject" include:
    • guides could live in two or more places without setting up redirect guides, which can be cumbersome and confusing
    • guides would be sorted in one way -- by subject -- instead of in two -- by subject and group
    • it actually makes assigning editing privileges a little easier as admins won't have to assign editing privileges for new LibGuide users to as many groups
    Does the Technology committee have any thoughts on this? No matter which approach we decide to go with, it will be helpful to have improved organization of our LibGuides! And I think Conferences & Meetings, Committees, and Projects would be 3 helpful categories to add.

    Best,
    Kian

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    Kian Flynn
    Geography & Global Studies Librarian
    University of Washington Libraries
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