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Civic Librarianship: Possible New Role for Depository Libraries in the Next Century?
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Shuler, John A. – Journal of Government Information, 1996
Discusses the Government Printing Office (GPO) Electronic Information Access Enhancement Act of 1993, which shifted the Federal Depository Library Program's emphasis from local collections building to the Superintendent of Documents and the GPO, and outlines implications of this shift from collection building to citizen information service.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Depository Libraries, Federal Government, Information Dissemination
A U.S. Government Publications Collection in a Non-depository Research Library: A Case Study.
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Weatherly, C. Diann – Journal of Government Information, 1996
Offers a case study of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, library without depository status, which maintains a government documents collection through microfiche and subscriptions and compares it to depository libraries in terms of staff, shelving, binding, collection analysis, and quality of service. The future of electronic government…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Depository Libraries
Alternative User Survey and Group Process Methods: Nominal Group Technique Applied to U.S. Depository Libraries.
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Richmond, Elizabeth B.; McKnelly, Michele T. – Journal of Government Information, 1996
Assessing user needs is vital to planning and development of collection and service policies in depository libraries. Community surveys, published surveys, library internal reports, and databases are alternative sources of user information. A group process, such as the Nominal Group Technique, which creates a listening forum, may be more effective…
Descriptors: Depository Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Group Discussion, Information Sources