In April 2020, 1 was appointed to a three-year term on the Depository Library Council.
This group serves as an advisory group to GPO and its Director. Council also plans and
organizes the Fall and Spring FDLP conferences. Council has two-hour meetings every
month with GPO.
- I was appointed to the Digital Deposit Working Group. This group meets twice a
month and is working on issues related to digital deposit of government
information, with a focus on born-digital “fugitive” (documents that should be
disseminated through the FDLP but aren’t) materials and providing
recommendations on how to assist GPO with issues related to “fugitive”
documents. - This group created a project with volunteers in the government
information community to examine how they search for “fugitive”
documents. We created a detailed work form for collecting the search
strategies used by these volunteers. I led 3 out of the 4 training sessions
for our volunteers. The working group is now evaluating the work forms
and I am using the form to create training documentation and a best
practices guide to share with the government information community to
help give guidance for searching for “fugitive” documents. - I am a member of a subgroup within the Digital Deposit working group that is
examining the feasibility of the transmittal of born-digital materials from GPO to
depository libraries much in the same way that GPO currently disseminates
tangible items. This subgroup has been interviewing representatives from the
different types of libraries (regional, selective, tribal, academic, public, state,
preservation steward, consortium) to discuss issues that would affect
participation in such a program. I led three of these interviews. We are currently
distilling the information from these interviews and will provide our
recommendation to the rest of the members of the Digital Deposit working
group, with feedback eventually going to GPO staff.
providing written commentary on
any legislation related to Title 44 of the United States Code (this section governs the FDLP). I
provided written commentary related to Title 44 U.S.C. §1907 and §1917. Council’s feedback
was sent to the Superintendent of Documents to be shared with the Committee on House
Administration and Senate Rules Committee.
In April 2020, 1 was appointed to a three-year term on the Depository Library Council.
This group serves as an advisory group to GPO and its Director. Council also plans and
organizes the Fall and Spring FDLP conferences. Council has two-hour meetings every
month with GPO.
- I was appointed to the Digital Deposit Working Group. This group meets twice a
month and is working on issues related to digital deposit of government
information, with a focus on born-digital “fugitive” (documents that should be
disseminated through the FDLP but aren’t) materials and providing
recommendations on how to assist GPO with issues related to “fugitive”
documents. - This group created a project with volunteers in the government
information community to examine how they search for “fugitive”
documents. We created a detailed work form for collecting the search
strategies used by these volunteers. I led 3 out of the 4 training sessions
for our volunteers. The working group is now evaluating the work forms
and I am using the form to create training documentation and a best
practices guide to share with the government information community to
help give guidance for searching for “fugitive” documents. - I am a member of a subgroup within the Digital Deposit working group that is
examining the feasibility of the transmittal of born-digital materials from GPO to
depository libraries much in the same way that GPO currently disseminates
tangible items. This subgroup has been interviewing representatives from the
different types of libraries (regional, selective, tribal, academic, public, state,
preservation steward, consortium) to discuss issues that would affect
participation in such a program. I led three of these interviews. We are currently
distilling the information from these interviews and will provide our
recommendation to the rest of the members of the Digital Deposit working
group, with feedback eventually going to GPO staff.
advised regaring discontinuation of microfiche
as a distributed format. I also served as co-chair of a DLC working group focusing on issues
related to digital deposit. 2021-2022
Ezzo, J., Sittel, R., Stringfellow, W., Tate, V., Christenson, H., Jacobs, J.R., Etkin, C.,
LaPlant, L., & Tieman, J. (2022). Digital Deposit Working Group of the Depository Library
Council Final Report and Recommendations. Transmitted to the Depository Library Council
on March 24, 2022.
- This 88-page final report provides detailed accounts of the work conducted by the
Digital Deposit Working Group and its subgroups. This report also provides
recommendations for the DLC to consider, and if adopted, to be sent to the
Government Publishing Office for consideration.
Digital Deposit Working Group
Co-Chair, 2020-2022
- This group meets twice a month and worked on issues related to the digital deposit of
government information, with a focus on born-digital unreported documents (documents
that should be disseminated through the FDLP but aren’t) and providing recommendations
on how to assist GPO with issues related to these unreported publications. - As co-chair, I served as liaison between the working group and the rest of the Depository
Library Council. I also presented updates at the DLC fall business meeting during the FDLP
Fall conference. - This group created a project with volunteers in the government information community to
examine how they search for unreported publications. We created a detailed work form for
collecting the search strategies used by these volunteers. I led 3 out of the 4 training
sessions for our volunteers. The working group then evaluated the work forms to provide
recommendations to GPO for training sessions and best practices related to searching for
and reporting unreported publications. - Helped write a final report with working group findings and recommendations to GPO.
Visualizing Digital Deposit Working Group (VDDWG)
Member, 2020-2022 - Subgroup within the Digital Deposit working group, tasked with examining the feasibility of
the transmittal of born-digital materials from GPO to depository libraries much in the same
way that GPO currently disseminates tangible items. This subgroup interviewed
representatives from the different types of libraries to discuss issues that would affect
participation in such a program. I led three of these interviews. Provided our
recommendations based on the interviews as part of the Digital Deposit Working Group’s
final report.
Digital Deposit Working Group
Co-Chair, 2020-2022
This group met twice a month and worked on issues related to the digital deposit of government
information, with a focus on born-digital unreported documents (documents that should be
disseminated through the FDLP but aren’t) and providing recommendations on how to assist
GPO with issues related to these unreported publications.
- As co-chair, I served as liaison between the working group and the rest of the Depository
Library Council. I also presented updates at the DLC spring business meeting during the FDLP
Spring conference. - This group created a project with volunteers in the government information community to
examine how they search for unreported publications. We created a detailed work form for
collecting the search strategies used by these volunteers. I led 3 out of the 4 training sessions
for our volunteers. The working group then evaluated the work forms to provide
recommendations to GPO for training sessions and best practices related to searching for and
reporting unreported publications. - Helped write a final report with working group findings and recommendations to GPO.
Visualizing Digital Deposit Working Group (VDDWG)
Member, 2020-2022
- Subgroup within the Digital Deposit working group, tasked with examining the feasibility of the
transmittal of born-digital materials from GPO to depository libraries much in the same way that
SPO currently disseminates tangible items. This subgroup interviewed representatives from the
lifferent types of libraries to discuss issues that would affect participation in such a program. I
led three of these interviews. Provided our recommendations based on the interviews as part of
the Digital Deposit Working Group’s final report.