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E-Democracy and E-Government: How Will These Affect Libraries?
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Pare, Richard – 2002
In the late 1980s, when few Canadian citizens had Internet access, federal departments and agencies in Canada were already preparing for the future by putting information and documentation online. This paper outlines several government-sponsored programs--SchoolNet, the Canadian Investment Fund, Community Access Program, Canada Foundation for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Federal Government, Federal Programs
The U.S. Global Change Research Program: History and Organization.
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Library Hi Tech, 1995
Explains the history and organization of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Highlights include participating agencies; data and information management needs, including the Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS); and four sidebars that discuss GCDIS implementation, prototype projects, the library access, search, and retrieval pilot…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Information Management
Depository Libraries and Public Services.
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Kessler, Ridley – Government Information Quarterly, 1998
Discusses the Wright State University (Ohio) Library policy directive on customer service, and suggests this document as a model to follow in setting up service standards or guidelines for depository-library services. Draft-depository library public-service guidelines for government information in electronic format are appended. (JAK)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Depository Libraries, Electronic Libraries
The GPO and the Depository Library Program as Structured Are Needed: Views of a Selective Depository Librarian.
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Walshak, Lynn G. – Government Information Quarterly, 1998
Addresses perceived problems of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and the Government Printing Office (GPO) relative to a foundering program, electronic capabilities, costs to participating libraries, inefficient service, and accountability requirements. Unfavorable images have resulted and have been used by advocacy groups to bring the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Accountability, Costs, Depository Libraries
Why Continue To Be a Depository Library if It Is All on the Internet Anyway?
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Kram, Lorraine – Government Information Quarterly, 1998
Provides a starting point from which individual libraries can evaluate continuation of their depository status. Many of the basic questions that a library needs to address are explored. Issues covered include availability of government information on the Internet, costs, and incentives. Recommended specifications for public workstations in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer System Design, Costs, Depository Libraries
Public Service Guidelines in an Electronic Environment.
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Barkley, Daniel C. – Government Information Quarterly, 1998
In today's electronic environment, government information librarians face new challenges, especially in the arena of quality public-service provision. Given the lack of clear guidelines that Federal Depository Library Program participants follow, and based upon suggested guidelines of reference-oriented literature, a new set of public services…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Depository Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Federal Government