scholarly journals “Who are ‘We the People’?” Pilot Survey Investigating Government Information Professionals: A Conversation

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Kenya Flash ◽  
Dominique Hallett
Keyword(s):  
Government Information ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The People ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
The Future ◽  
Library Program ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
We The People

At the fall 2017 Federal Depository Library Program conference, a chance conversation regarding government information librarians’ average salaries evolved into a survey to learn who is working with government documents. In the course of the conversation, it became apparent the roles and duties of government information professionals were shifting. After some consideration, the authors determined that the best course of action would be to ask government information professionals about their perceptions of who they are and what they consider the future of government information librarianship to be.

scholarly journals Tales from the Trenches—Part 1

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Kenya Flash ◽  
Dominique Hallett
Keyword(s):  
Government Information ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
The People ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
We The People

Many and wondrous are the tales told by government information professionals of their interactions with these boundless sources of information. This discovery was made as Kenya and Dominique were compiling information from the recent for “Who are we the people” survey. In the survey conducted in late 2018-early 2019 we included the following question:Tell us your favorite government documents/government information story. If you would like your name to be included with your story, please include it here, otherwise your story might be published as an anonymous story from the survey.

scholarly journals Tales from the Trenches—Part 4

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Kenya Flash ◽  
Dominique Hallett
Keyword(s):  
Government Information ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
The People ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
We The People

This is the final installment of stories and tales as told by government information professionals as part of the “Who are ‘We the People’?” survey conducted by Kenya Flash and Dominique Hallett. We would like to thank you for joining us on this journey through the stories from those in the trenches. We hope you have recognized yourselves in some, giggled and/or shaken your head at others, and overall, simply enjoyed these tales. Our pilot survey has provided us with so much insight and information, but these stories really cut to the heart of our profession and what it is like being a government information p8rofessional. Thank you for your time and your tales.

scholarly journals Tales from the Trenches—Part 3

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Kenya Flash ◽  
Dominique Hallett
Keyword(s):  
Government Information ◽  
The People ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
We The People

Here are more stories and tales as told by government information professionals as part of the “Who are ‘We the People’?” survey conducted by Kenya Flash and Dominique Hallett.

scholarly journals Tales from the Trenches—Part 2

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Kenya Flash ◽  
Dominique Hallett
Keyword(s):  
Government Information ◽  
The People ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
We The People

Here are more stories and tales as told by government information professionals as part of the “Who are ‘We the People’?” survey conducted by Kenya Flash and Dominique Hallett.

The use and misuse of public forests in Ontario

1973 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Michael Folkema
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Forest Industries ◽  
We The People ◽  
Public Forests ◽  
Reforestation Policy

Our merchantable timber supplies in Ontario are becoming depleted and our forest industries which are presently standing still will recede into a stage of still less importance. Overcutting in spruce and jackpine is equally serious. Dwindling timber supplies are largely the result of an inadequate reforestation policy. During the past 10 years there have been some increases in reforestation but they are only drops in the bucket. If we the people of Ontario want harvestable forests in the future we must press for an effective government policy to legislate that ALL the areas that are logged must be regenerated into harvestable forests. Only then can we be assured of a healthy economy in Ontario's forests.

scholarly journals The Poetry of Government Information

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Amy Brunvand
Keyword(s):  
Government Information ◽  
Dark Night ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Library Program ◽  
Shadow Side

Anne Carson’s Autobiograpy of Red is one of those beloved poetry books that everyone kept telling me to read, but somehow I never got around to it until recently. Imagine my surprise to find government documents librarianship at the crux of the story! In Carson’s poetic novel, our hero Geryon is so full of artistic and erotic passion that he appears as a winged red monster. After he is dumped by a lover, “Geryon’s life entered a numb time, caught between the tongue and the taste,” a poetic dark-night-of-the-soul rendered metaphorically as a job shelving government documents in a joyless library basement. The forlorn, distinctly unpoetic texts are stored on shelves labeled in all caps, “EXTINGUISH LIGHT WHEN NOT IN USE.” This accuracy of detail suggests that back in 1998 when the poem was written Carson had most likely encountered an actual Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) collection. Nonetheless, she is kind to the librarians who occupy their dusty world willingly and consider Geryon “a talented boy with a shadow side.” Now that so much government information is online, this gloomy subterranean library may someday come to seem like pure imagination, a poet’s fanciful invention of an impossibly drab occupation.

scholarly journals Editor's Corner: Make No Little Plans

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Sarah Erekson
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Steering Committee ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Training

Last winter, the GODORT working group on reorganization presented a plan on how to take the Government Documents Round Table into the next generation.By accepting this report, the Steering Committee reaffirmed the mission of GODORT as a place that creates a community for the exchange of ideas for librarians working with government information, sponsors and supports innovative programming, acts as an advocate for government information by increasing communications with the larger community of information professionals, and contributes to the education and training of government information librarians.

scholarly journals The Federal Depository Library Program in 2023: One Perspective on the Transition to the Future

2009 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-370
Author(s):  
Peter Hernon ◽  
Laura Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Government Printing ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
The Future ◽  
Library Program ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One

The Government Printing Office (GPO) administers a depository library program that provides the public with access to government publications, including digital ones. For years, the GPO, its Depository Library Council, and documents librarians have discussed the future role of member libraries. This article explores a different, but critical, perspective: that of directors of university libraries within the Association of Research Libraries. Thirty directors reviewed different scenarios and selected the one they envision their university assuming. The findings have implications for librarians in any depository library program and others interested in the future role of libraries as collection and service centers for government information resources.

scholarly journals What Did Your Library Do During the War? A Look Back at Depository Libraries and the World War II War Effort, with a Brief Bibliography

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Lou Malcomb
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Government Printing ◽  
Government Information ◽  
World War ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Library Program ◽  
The Government

After some thirty years dealing with the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) as a reference librarian and later as head of Indiana University’s Government Information, Maps, and Microforms Department, I still feel passionate about the role FDLP librarians play in maintaining documents collections and providing easy access to what our governments publish. Throughout my career as a documents librarian, I contended that documents librarians are stuck in the middle: between ensuring access to government information for our researchers and students, and working as an “agent” of the government to protect these collections. I am specifically remembering all the various recalls for specific documents from the Government Printing Office (GPO), a fundamental aspect of FDLP in working with agencies to get depository items. While cleaning up office files in anticipation of retirement a few years ago, I uncovered a few treasures I would like to share with my government documents colleagues.

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