Theme: The Surprising World of Government Libraries: trends in survival and prospect of new services

The above IFLA Sections invite proposals for papers to be presented at a two-hour programme in the next IFLA General Conference to be held on August 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.

Government Libraries are facing a transition period. Between some states looking for slash budgets due to the crisis and the ongoing revision of library services because of information technology’s advances, the role of librarians in this scenario must be addressed. This is a Call for Papers to solicit people to share their experiences and case studies that demonstrate how librarians can make a difference and manage complex situations within government structures, including the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary branches.

Subjects of interest include:

• How government libraries are surviving
• How government libraries fare during and after disasters
• The impact of government library closures
• Government libraries transition to the digital world
• The present state of Government Libraries in each country and the future prospect of user services
• Government libraries surprising: still here
• Relationship between open access and the public interest dimension on intellectual property law and policy in the digital age

 Proposals should include:

• Title of the presentation
• Abstract of no more than 500 words
• Name, e-mail address, position (title) of presenter(s)
• Presenter(s) employed or affiliated institution
• A brief biographical statement of no more than 50 words

The selection of papers is based on the abstracts.

Important Dates and Timelines

Please email your proposals for papers before February 10, 2012 to Guillermo García-Capcha via ifla.governmentlibraries@gmail.com

The proposals will be evaluated and notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent by March 15, 2012

The presenters selected for the program at the Helsinki conference will be asked to submit a formal paper (for inclusion on the IFLA conference website and the Sections’ websites) no later than May 30, 2012

The session will be conducted in English. All proposals and presentations will be required to be in English. Final papers can be submitted in one of the official IFLA working languages. If the paper is in any of other official IFLA languages than English, an accompanying translation in English must be attached. All selected papers will be uploaded on the IFLA website.

For more information, please contact us via ifla.governmentlibraries@gmail.com

Please note

All expenses, including registration for the conference, and travel, accommodation to Helsinki are the sole responsibility of authors/presenters. For collective papers, at least one of the authors must be present for the Conference. No financial support can be provided by IFLA.

CLA Executive has approved the establishment of the Government Information Network.  a network for  monitoring  issues relating to government publishing and the availability of government information.   

Our complete terms of reference are linked off the CLA Network page at:

http://www.cla.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Networks1&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=11644

Joining our network is easy – just contact the CLA Office directly at membership@cla.ca

We hope to have a listserve and blog up and running soon.

http://www.cla.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Networks1&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=11472

 
Objective(s) of the Interest Group:

• To monitor issues relating to government publishing and the availability of government information.
• To provide a channel through which interested Canadian Library Association /Association canadienne des bibliothèques members can assist the Association to foster its mission statement and goals as they relate to government publications and information.
• To provide a forum where library workers can learn from one another or from experts in the field and can participate in other activities aimed at improving access to government information.
• The Access to Government Information Interest Group is also proud to sponsor the Olga B. Bishop Award.

Link: http://capdu.wordpress.com/

The CAPDU website is collecting media stories, interest group responses, links to the Parliamentary Committee web casts, and the statement released July 26 by the National Statistics Council on the changes to the 2011 Census.

Read the Canada Gazette announcement, the Statistics Canada announcement, and the Industry Canada announcments at the links below:

Canada Gazette Part I, June 26, 2010, Orders In Council
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2010/2010-06-26/html/order-decret-eng.html

2011 Census questionnaire announcement
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/ref/gazette-eng.cfm

July 13, 2010 Industry Canada Press Release http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/05709.html

A difference from previous years is that we will attempt a meeting prior to the CLA Interest Group Breakfast meeting.  We never have enough time at the breakfast meeting, to get through issues., such as the DSP committee minutes see http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/news-nouvelles/2009-11-16-e.html.  As well, we should discuss CLA’s announcement about changes to the association, at:

http://www.cla.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=9073&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm

1. Thursday June 3, 7:00 am to 8:00 am – AGIIG Interest Group Meeting – roundtable discussion  moderated by the Co-conveners to identify issues and actions to carry forward to the Interest Group Breakfast meeting.   Issues for possible discussion:  liaison with other CLA committees and interest groups, the Olga B Bishop Award (an AGIIG award not awarded for a number of years), 2010-2011 AGIIG activities, Infodep-l emails that alert us to the disappearance of federal publications.

1. Friday June 4, 7:30- 8:30 , CLA Interest Group Breakfast Meeting.  Members of the CLA Executive visit the interest groups at this meeting.

1. Saturday June 5, 8:30 am to 9:30 am, Session H55 “What Users Want: Assessing Government Information Preferences to Drive Information Services.”  Presenters: Jennie M. Burroughs, University of Montana, Caron Rollins, University of Victoria.

And… another session of interest…  Session I58, Saturday, June 5 9:45-10:45: Greater Government Accountability.  Finds of the Taskforce on the Future of the Federal Library Service.  Speaker from LAC.

Caron Rollins (Co-Convener, AGIIG)

Librarian

Government Publications and Political Science

Room 266 McPherson Library

PO Box 1800 STN CSC

University of Victoria

Victoria BC V8W 3H5

Phone 250-721-8566

email crollins@uvic.ca

Caron and I, your co-convenors, would like to know what you think our interest group should put forward as a program proposal for the CLA conference in Edmonton. 

If you have any thoughts as to what topics would be good to have discussed or you have an idea for a program related to government documents or access to government information, please let us know.  If you like, you can send it to the list or you can send it to Caron and myself by Wed., Sept. 16 so we can get the proposal together.  Our contact information is below.

If you have ideas as to who could do the program including yourself, please include this information.

For your info, here’s the link to the Call for proposals so you have an idea as to what they are looking for.

http://cla.warnedesign.com/cla/1_proposal_guidlines.php

As well, if you are interested in convening our session, please let us know this as we need to put that in the proposal.

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Doug and Caron

Doug Kariel dougk@athabascau.ca
Co-Convenor, AGIIG

Caron Rollins, Convenor, AGIIG crollins@uvic.ca

Mike McCaffrey, “News from the North,” Dttp: Documents to the People 37, no. 2 (2009): 10

Fulltext online:

EBSCOhost Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with full text(LISTA)   

Wilson Library Literature and Information Science Full Text 

The AGIIG meeing at the CLA Interest Groups Breakfast Meeting at the CLA 2009 was helf from 7:30-9:00 am  on Sunday May 31, at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, Rooms 513 a – e. 

The meeting was attended by current members of AGIIC as well as new CLA members interested in joining, about a dozen people.  The business meeting was held in a large meeting room, as in past years, with tables set up for each interest group. The new CLA Executive Director, the Treasurer and the Councilors made the rounds, stopping at each IG table to meet members and hear concerns.  

Discussion at the meeting also concerned CLA’s members on the DSP Advisory Committee, and how to set up liasion by AGIIC with the CLA representatives.  We  asked that the Executive provide us with CLA’s representatives on the DSP Advisory Committee, as we would like to contact these reps.

Kevin Manual asked for volunters for the positions of Convenor and Co-Convenor.  Caron Rollins and Doug Kariel stepped forward, and those present had no objections.

Elizabeth Sanders and Barry Wood  from Publishing & Depository Services attended to answer questions about the new DSP agreement.  Thank-you for attending!  Key points: 

1. The new DSP agreement must be signed  (two signed copies!) and returned by July1, 2009. Reminders will be sent out on INFODEP, by Graham Campbell of DSP.   If the DSP does not receive the copies one warning will be sent.  If no response by Sept.1, the library’s DSP status will be cancelled.

2. DSP service standards will be posted to the DSP website.

3. The annual report requirement was dropped from the agreement, instead section 4.1.i asks for libraries to “provide, PDS, once a year, with feedback: . AGIIG members are interested in  sharing templates for this feedback. 

4. Continue, please, to report fugitive epubs to DSP.

5. DSP has applied to the Treasury Board for an excemption from the CLF2 xhtml requirement for all epubs.  Pdf formats are preferred.  AGIIG members also forwarded their concerns on this requirment to the meeting. AGIIC will follow-up.

6. The DSP conducted a number of site visits about the new agreement, to selected despository libraries.  Those present felt that more information about these visits could have been shared on INFODEP.

Communication with AGIIC members was another topic of our meeting dicussion.  Currently there are over 70 CLA members who also AGIIC members.  Some, but not all, subsribe to the AGIIC listserve (for instructions on joining this listserve, see our Committtee page on the CLA website ).  Others are members of GOVINF-L and / or INFODEP (the DSP listserve) and APLIC (Legislative libraries).  Volunteers stepped forward to post to GOVINFO-L notices from INFODEP and APLIC.

 Later that morning, the CLA Treasurer held an “Interest Group Information Meeting” for convenors (Caron attended).  Discussion focused on a new CLA Task Force set up to review the Interest Group guidelines (available on the CLA website).  Volunters were asked for the Task Force.

Submitted by Caron Rollins, Convenor.