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Stephanie Ford - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Kevin R Harwell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • promoting patents and trademarks a study of outreach activities in patent and trademark Depository Libraries
    Government Information Quarterly, 1996
    Co-Authors: Kevin R Harwell
    Abstract:

    Abstract Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs) were surveyed to measure the effort they expended to promote and publicize patent and trademark services and resources during one 12-month period. Responding Libraries undertook leadership in 578 events attended by 23,446 persons. Additionally, they distributed more than 75,074 copies of locally-produced information pieces. This article discusses various characteristics of the efforts developed by PTDLs to raise awareness of library services and resources.

Elizabeth Sanders - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

John A Shuler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • civic librarianship possible new role for Depository Libraries in the next century
    Journal of Government Information, 1996
    Co-Authors: John A Shuler
    Abstract:

    Abstract Profound changes have been taking place throughout the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) since passage of The Depository Library Act of 1962 (P.L. 85-579). This Act codified several critical perspectives regarding the role of Libraries in a system of federal government information distribution; the responsibilities shared among FDLP's participating Libraries (selective Libraries and regionals), as well as the proper management and policy role for the Superintendent of Documents (and, by extension, the GPO). The foundation of these perspectives, obviously, depends on the relative limitations and advantages of printing technologies and paper-based distribution systems. Within this scheme, local “ownership” of collections housed in a wide variety of private and public institutions across the nation best meets the information needs of citizens. The enactment of the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-40) shifts the FDLP's historic emphasis on local collection building and maintenance back to the Superintendent of Documents and the GPO. This article outlines several possible implications developing from this transformation.

  • a new order of things the political future of documents librarians and a national system of federal Depository Libraries
    Government Information Quarterly, 1994
    Co-Authors: John A Shuler
    Abstract:

    Abstract This article places the efforts of documents librarians to reform the Federal Depository Library Program (DLP) in an historical and political perspective. As with many other earlier efforts of reform, the recent “Reinventing Access to Federal Government Information,” held in October 1993, would raise doubts, once again, about the public institutions and national information policy arrangements that support the Government Printing Office and its DLP. The specific reforms calling for centralized information should be abandoned. The Depository library system's political power and public convictions were never fully expressed through the program's various national administrative incarnations. Its true community purpose flows from the local conditions and information needs of each Depository library community. Democratic distribution of public information must begin and end within these local areas and regions.

Celina Mcdonald - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.