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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"></b><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jterry@alawash.org">jterry@alawash.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:38 AM<br>
Subject: [District Dispatch] OGR urges librarians to participate in project for Federal Depository Library Program<br>To: <a href="mailto:district@ala.org">district@ala.org</a><br><br><br>FULL POST: <a href="http://bit.ly/aZ2Fjm" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/aZ2Fjm</a><br>
--<br>District Dispatch has posted a new item, 'OGR urges librarians to participate<br>in project for Federal Depository Library Program'<br><br>ALA will be sharing information regarding the Federal Depository Library<br>
Program modeling project that has been awarded to Ithaka S+R. Please take this<br>opportunity to make your voice heard on this important subject!<br><a href="http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=5250" target="_blank">http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=5250</a><br>
<br>Below is the latest communication from Ithaka S+R:<br><br>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>On behalf of the Government Printing Office, Ithaka S+R is launching a project<br>that will develop sustainable models for the Federal Depository Library Program<br>
in the 21st century. The Program plays a critical role in making federal<br>government information available to the American public, preserving it, and<br>providing services to help the public and specialized user communities to make<br>
effective use of government information. We’re currently reaching out to<br>libraries of all types – public, government, academic, and law libraries, and<br>both participants and non-participants in the Program – to alert you of the<br>
launch of this project. We hope that ALA members will choose to engage with us<br>regularly during the project’s six-month duration, to ensure that your<br>experience and perspective is incorporated to the greatest extent possible.<br>
<br>Engaging the community – including non-participating libraries that may rely<br>on depository libraries in providing government information services to their<br>constituents as well as members of the Program – is a priority for this<br>
project. We will rely on the input of the library community in our efforts to<br>model a FDLP that meets the needs of depository libraries as well as of the<br>broader library community and those they serve. Towards this end, we’ve just<br>
launched a website – <a href="http://fdlpmodeling.net/" target="_blank">fdlpmodeling.net</a> – to serve as a venue for community<br>engagement, providing updates on the status of the project, offering a variety<br>of mechanisms for community input, and sharing drafts and interim deliverables<br>
for comment. We’d encourage you to visit the site, learn about the project,<br>and share your thoughts with us at this early stage. While you’re there,<br>please subscribe to our RSS feed or sign up for email updates so you can be<br>
alerted of new posts. And of course, please share this information with any<br>colleagues or others who might be interested.<br><br>We hope to hear from you over the course of this project, either via<br><a href="http://fdlpmodeling.net/" target="_blank">fdlpmodeling.net</a> or directly by email.<br>
<br>Kind regards,<br><br>Roger Schonfeld & Ross Housewright<br>Ithaka S+R<br><br><br>You may view the latest post at<br><a href="http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=5287" target="_blank">http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=5287</a><br>
<br>You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are<br>posted.<br>Best regards,<br>Jacob Roberts<br><a href="mailto:jroberts@alawash.org">jroberts@alawash.org</a></div><br><br clear="all"><br>
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