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Info
Road
?
Opportunities & Challenges in a
Predominately Electronic
Government Information
Environment
Panel Members:
Daniel O’Mahony, Department Leader, Administrative Services, Brown University Library
Judy Russell, Managing Director, Information Dissemination (Superintendent of Documents),
Government Printing Office
Atifa Rawan, Full Librarian, Social Sciences Team, University of Arizona Library
Cheryl Knott Malone, Associate Professor, School of Information Resources and Library Science,
University of Arizona
It's been 10 years since the Government
Printing Office issued its Study to Identify
Measures Necessary for a Successful
Transition to a More Electronic Federal
Depository Library Program. In the interim,
GPO and depository libraries have been
transitioning to electronic dissemination
while at the same time continuing to
manage the legacy collections of print and
other tangible formats.
In this session, participants will discuss the
upcoming opportunities and challenges we
can expect as we continue to function in the
hybrid environment.
Among the issues to be addressed:
• Users' expectations
• GPO/FDLP strategic vision and future directions
• Roles of libraries
• Staffing issues and training
1995
2005
The Incoming Freshman Class of
1995
• Born same year as Apple II and
the Radio Shack TRS-80
• There has always been a space
shuttle
• Despite sightings to the
contrary, Elvis has always
been dead
• Old enough to have seen Pete
Rose play & manage baseball
• Anita Bryant never pitched
Florida orange juice
Source: Day by Day, The Seventies, Facts on File, 1988
The Incoming Freshman Class of
2005
• Born same year as IBM PS/2
• Don’t remember when “cut &
paste” was with scissors
• Voice mail and digital
cameras have always existed
• Bill Gates has always been
worth at least $2 billion
• There has never been a
“fairness doctrine” at the FCC
Source: Beloit College Mindset List
10-Year Timeframe
2.5 generations of college students
3 presidential election cycles
3+ generations of computer equipment
6 congressional election cycles
10 new classes of incoming freshmen
Ten years after...
1995
2005
Academic, 55%
Academic, 57%
Federal and State
Court, 4%
Federal and State
Court, 4%
Federal Agency, 4%
Federal Agency, 3%
State and Special,
5%
State and Special,
5%
Academic Law,
11%
Academic Law,
12%
Public, 20%
Public, 19%
1,385 FDLP libraries
1,266 FDLP libraries
8.6% drop in 10 years
(119 libraries)
Titles Distributed to FDLP Libraries
1995
2005
Microfiche
(includes DOE
fiche)
71%
Electronic formats
(e.g., diskette, CDROM, DVD), 2%
Microfiche, 24%
Electronic formats
(e.g., diskette, CDROM, DVD)
1%
Paper (includes
maps)
28%
Paper (includes
maps), 74%
61,851 titles
10,489 titles
83% drop in 10 years
(51,362 titles)
GPO Access Gateway
Transition to More Electronic Environment – Access to Gov Info
1995
2005
GPO Access average monthly retrievals
207,000
36 million
Percent of FDLP titles available online
Percent available in tangible formats ONLY
Percent available online ONLY
< 5%
> 95%
0%
> 92%
14%
35%
Number of online titles (files)
7,400
236,000
E-pubs harvested from agency web sites
NA
6,500 (FY)
Sources: GPO Library Program Service annual reports, FDLP Biennial surveys, GPO staff
Transition to More Electronic Environment – Effect on Libraries
1995
2005
Web page for government information?
NA
92%
Graphical web browser available to public?
38%
NA
Current bib records for e-docs linked in
online catalog?
NA
77%
Estimated total FDLP patrons per week
136 per FDL
46% < 25
Systematically downloads & stores e-docs
NA
163
(334 willing)
Sources: GPO Library Program Service annual reports, FDLP Biennial surveys, GPO staff
66% of Internet users have looked for information from a
government web site (federal, state, local)
41% of Internet users have done research involving official
government statistics or documents online
What government web site users (97 million Americans)
do at agency web sites:
70% do research for work or school
62% seek information about a public policy or issue of interest
49% get advice or information about a health or safety issue
34% get information about potential business opportunities
Source: How Americans Contact Government, June 2003
Undergraduates
IC = Information
Control
Top Desired Mean Scores:
8.26 Making electronic resources accessible from my
home or office
8.22 Modern equipment that lets me easily access
needed information
8.16 A library Web site enabling me to locate information
on my own
8.13 Print and/or electronic journal collections I require for
my work
8.11 Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to find things
on my own
8.10 Making information easily accessible for independent
use
8.09 The electronic information resources I need
7.92 The printed library materials I need for my work
Source: Association of Research Libraries, Texas A&M University, LibQUAL+ 2005 Survey, 2005
94% of 11th & 12th graders use Internet
89% all teens send or read email
“They view email as something you use to talk to ‘old people,’
institutions, or to send complex instructions to large groups.”
“Instant messaging has become the digital communications
backbone of teens’ daily lives.”
About 2/3 teenagers use IM; 1/3 use IM every single day
About 3/4 online teens use IM
Source: Teens and Technology, July 2005
REALITIES:
#1 – “Millennials” are a distinct age cohort (13 to 28 year olds)
#2 – They are immersed in a world of media and gadgets
#3 – Their technology is mobile
#4 – Internet plays a special role in their world
#5 – They are multi-taskers
#6 – They often are unaware or and indifferent to the consequences of
their use of technology
#7 – Their (our) technology world will change radically in the coming
decade
#8 – The way they approach learning & research tasks will be shaped
by their new techno-world
Source: Lee Rainie, “Life Online: Teens and Technology and World to Come,” Pew Internet & American Life Project, March 2006
Goals for an Electronic FDLP:
#1 – Ensure that the public has equitable, no-fee, local access to
government information
#2 – Use new information technologies to improve public access
#3 – Provide government information in formats appropriate to the needs
of users and the intended usage
#4 – Enable the public to locate government information regardless of
format
#5 – Ensure both timely, current public access and permanent, future
public access, without copyright-like restrictions on the use or re-use of
information
#6 – Facilitate preservation of government information [through NARA]
#7 – Ensure the program is cost-effective for all parties
Source: GPO, Study to Identify Measures Necessary for a Successful Transition to a More Electronic FDLP, 1996