This article examines how Canadian academic libraries are adapting to major transformations in the publication and delivery of government information. To study this question, a small-scale national survey was conducted in 2017–2018 that covered both technical and public services at Canadian academic libraries. Participants were also asked to comment on the role of academic libraries in regard to government information and future trends in the field.
{"title":"Government Information in Canadian Academic Libraries, 2017–2018: Survey of Academic Librarians","authors":"Emma Cross, Sylvie Lafortune","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v47i3.7121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v47i3.7121","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how Canadian academic libraries are adapting to major transformations in the publication and delivery of government information. To study this question, a small-scale national survey was conducted in 2017–2018 that covered both technical and public services at Canadian academic libraries. Participants were also asked to comment on the role of academic libraries in regard to government information and future trends in the field.","PeriodicalId":235362,"journal":{"name":"DttP: Documents to the People","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127287793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
That women served in every military conflict in the history of the United States is common knowledge—but that women performed duties other than nursing during the First World War may come as a surprise to some. Regina Akers, a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command, describes the service of the more than eleven thousand women that enlisted in the Naval Costal Defense Reserve during the Great War in The Navy’s First Enlisted Women: Patriotic Pioneers. She also details the meaning of their contributions to the war effort both at home and overseas. By working as clerks, typists, stenographers, translators, cryptologists, messengers, and even designers of camouflage for ships, these women volunteers freed up men for sea duty and combat.
{"title":"Review: The Navy’s First Enlisted Women: Patriotic Pioneers","authors":"Kristine Stilwell","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v47i3.7119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v47i3.7119","url":null,"abstract":"That women served in every military conflict in the history of the United States is common knowledge—but that women performed duties other than nursing during the First World War may come as a surprise to some. Regina Akers, a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command, describes the service of the more than eleven thousand women that enlisted in the Naval Costal Defense Reserve during the Great War in The Navy’s First Enlisted Women: Patriotic Pioneers. She also details the meaning of their contributions to the war effort both at home and overseas. By working as clerks, typists, stenographers, translators, cryptologists, messengers, and even designers of camouflage for ships, these women volunteers freed up men for sea duty and combat.","PeriodicalId":235362,"journal":{"name":"DttP: Documents to the People","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128873510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The first thing that you feel when an airplane lands is the effect of the brakes to slow it down. But, as the report “The Use of Wheel Brakes on Airplanes” points out, the use of brakes had to be proven to be safe before becoming part of standard operating procedures.
{"title":"TRAIL Spotlight","authors":"I. Altamirano","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v47i3.7120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v47i3.7120","url":null,"abstract":"The first thing that you feel when an airplane lands is the effect of the brakes to slow it down. But, as the report “The Use of Wheel Brakes on Airplanes” points out, the use of brakes had to be proven to be safe before becoming part of standard operating procedures.","PeriodicalId":235362,"journal":{"name":"DttP: Documents to the People","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117020065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Awards CommitteeCataloging CommitteeEducation CommitteeMembership CommitteeGODORT Federal Information Interest Group (FIIG) meetingMembership UpdatePublications CommitteeSteering CommitteeTreasurer Report
{"title":"2019 ALA Annual Conference Updates","authors":"Government Documents Round Table","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v47i3.7123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v47i3.7123","url":null,"abstract":"Awards CommitteeCataloging CommitteeEducation CommitteeMembership CommitteeGODORT Federal Information Interest Group (FIIG) meetingMembership UpdatePublications CommitteeSteering CommitteeTreasurer Report","PeriodicalId":235362,"journal":{"name":"DttP: Documents to the People","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128398026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In May 2013, an American law student, through his company, Defense Distributed, posted instructions online for making a gun with a 3D printer. The instructions were downloaded at least 100,000 times in a matter of two days. The horrifying prospect of the rapid proliferation of untraceable weapons that could evade metal detection—“ghost guns”—unleashed an immediate government reaction that is still playing out. In the short history of 3D-printed guns, government documents present a complex and evolving picture of the interplay among the three branches of government and between the states and federal government. Initially, the U.S. State Department tapped export control regulations to force Defense Distributed to take the instructions off its webpage. A long, complex legal battle ensued. By 2018, with a new presidential administration in place, the State Department abruptly stopped opposing the online posting of 3D-printed gun instructions. With the State Department and Defense Distributed suddenly aligned, twenty state attorneys general took up the legal fight against 3D-printed guns. At the collective states’ request, a federal court issued a temporary restraining order and then a preliminary injunction to keep the 3D-printed gun instructions off the internet, but the case is ongoing. Meanwhile, bills have been introduced in Congress to criminalize the online publication of instructions for 3D-printed guns, and some states are pursuing their own legislative measures against 3D-printed guns. This article discusses the timeline of the story and the key legal and political issues at play.
{"title":"Ghost Guns","authors":"Traci Emerson, Sara Bensley","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v47i3.7122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v47i3.7122","url":null,"abstract":"In May 2013, an American law student, through his company, Defense Distributed, posted instructions online for making a gun with a 3D printer. The instructions were downloaded at least 100,000 times in a matter of two days. The horrifying prospect of the rapid proliferation of untraceable weapons that could evade metal detection—“ghost guns”—unleashed an immediate government reaction that is still playing out. In the short history of 3D-printed guns, government documents present a complex and evolving picture of the interplay among the three branches of government and between the states and federal government. Initially, the U.S. State Department tapped export control regulations to force Defense Distributed to take the instructions off its webpage. A long, complex legal battle ensued. By 2018, with a new presidential administration in place, the State Department abruptly stopped opposing the online posting of 3D-printed gun instructions. With the State Department and Defense Distributed suddenly aligned, twenty state attorneys general took up the legal fight against 3D-printed guns. At the collective states’ request, a federal court issued a temporary restraining order and then a preliminary injunction to keep the 3D-printed gun instructions off the internet, but the case is ongoing. Meanwhile, bills have been introduced in Congress to criminalize the online publication of instructions for 3D-printed guns, and some states are pursuing their own legislative measures against 3D-printed guns. This article discusses the timeline of the story and the key legal and political issues at play.","PeriodicalId":235362,"journal":{"name":"DttP: Documents to the People","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131347171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Favorite spot in Fargo / North DakotaMy favorite spot is Island Park. It is near the river, has music and dancing during the summer, and wonderful, big trees. It is like a little forest in the middle of Fargo.Favorite pastime/hobbyI am a cos-player. It mixes some of my passions: science fiction, sewing, and art. I enjoy the challenge of taking something that was a 2-D image and making something that works on a real human. I’ve also started doing standup comedy.
{"title":"Interview with Incoming GODORT Chair","authors":"Susanne Caro","doi":"10.5860/DTTP.V47I2.7034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/DTTP.V47I2.7034","url":null,"abstract":"Favorite spot in Fargo / North DakotaMy favorite spot is Island Park. It is near the river, has music and dancing during the summer, and wonderful, big trees. It is like a little forest in the middle of Fargo.Favorite pastime/hobbyI am a cos-player. It mixes some of my passions: science fiction, sewing, and art. I enjoy the challenge of taking something that was a 2-D image and making something that works on a real human. I’ve also started doing standup comedy.","PeriodicalId":235362,"journal":{"name":"DttP: Documents to the People","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123288253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis documents the chaotic transition from the Obama administration to the Trump administration. The Trump administration did not think it was necessary to fill most of the government positions vacated by Obama appointees so the departments that had carefully prepared briefing books for the new staff waited for them to arrive.
{"title":"Review: The Fifth Risk","authors":"K. Cassell","doi":"10.5860/DTTP.V47I2.7029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/DTTP.V47I2.7029","url":null,"abstract":"In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis documents the chaotic transition from the Obama administration to the Trump administration. The Trump administration did not think it was necessary to fill most of the government positions vacated by Obama appointees so the departments that had carefully prepared briefing books for the new staff waited for them to arrive.","PeriodicalId":235362,"journal":{"name":"DttP: Documents to the People","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121374294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne Carson’s Autobiograpy of Red is one of those beloved poetry books that everyone kept telling me to read, but somehow I never got around to it until recently. Imagine my surprise to find government documents librarianship at the crux of the story! In Carson’s poetic novel, our hero Geryon is so full of artistic and erotic passion that he appears as a winged red monster. After he is dumped by a lover, “Geryon’s life entered a numb time, caught between the tongue and the taste,” a poetic dark-night-of-the-soul rendered metaphorically as a job shelving government documents in a joyless library basement. The forlorn, distinctly unpoetic texts are stored on shelves labeled in all caps, “EXTINGUISH LIGHT WHEN NOT IN USE.” This accuracy of detail suggests that back in 1998 when the poem was written Carson had most likely encountered an actual Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) collection. Nonetheless, she is kind to the librarians who occupy their dusty world willingly and consider Geryon “a talented boy with a shadow side.” Now that so much government information is online, this gloomy subterranean library may someday come to seem like pure imagination, a poet’s fanciful invention of an impossibly drab occupation.
安妮·卡森(Anne Carson)的《红色自传》(autobiography of Red)是一本人人都劝我读的深受喜爱的诗歌书，但不知怎么的，直到最近我才抽出时间读它。想象一下，当我发现政府文件图书馆是故事的关键所在时，我感到多么惊讶!在卡森的诗歌小说中，我们的主人公格里恩充满了艺术和情欲的激情，他就像一个长着翅膀的红色怪物。在他被情人抛弃后，“格里昂的生活进入了麻木的时期，陷入了舌头和味觉之间”，这是一场充满诗意的灵魂黑夜，比喻为在一个毫无乐趣的图书馆地下室里整理政府文件的工作。这些被遗弃的、毫无诗意的文字被放在架子上，上面全是大写的标签，“不用时请熄灯”。这一细节的准确性表明，早在1998年，当这首诗被写出来的时候，卡森很可能遇到了一个真正的联邦寄存图书馆计划(FDLP)的收藏。尽管如此，她对图书管理员很友好，他们心甘情愿地占据了他们尘土飞扬的世界，并认为格里昂是“一个有阴暗面的天才男孩”。既然网上有如此多的政府信息，这个阴暗的地下图书馆可能有一天会看起来像纯粹的想象，一个诗人对一种不可思议的单调职业的幻想发明。
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The Documents Expediting Project (DocEx), an acquisition and distribution service for federal documents that operated out of the Library of Congress (LC) from 1946 to 2004, was an important source of non-depository items, second copies, and fugitive documents. In addition to distributing documents to subscribing libraries and other organizations, DocEx supplied documents to the Superintendent of Documents for inclusion in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MoCat). DocEx stands as a model of cooperation between libraries, library associations, LC, federal agencies, the Superintendent of Documents, and vendors to facilitate the acquisition and distribution of millions of documents that would otherwise have disappeared.
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