Volume 14, #1 Spring/Summer 2008

From the Chair:

Oldenkamp Wins Election!-David Oldenkamp has just been elected the Coordinator/Coordinator-Elect for GODORT's International Documents Task Force.

Andrea Morrison's New Book-Andrea Morrison is the editor of the new book Managing Electronic Government Information in Libraries has justed been published by the American Library Association for the Government Documents Roundtable. Further information is available thru the ALA Store. Work contents include reviews of local, state, federal, and international government electronic resources, detailed descriptions of how to catalog these digital resources, outreach methods for sharing these resources with colleagues and interested users, and practical tips for staying current with electronic government information. (Bert Chapman).

Purdue University Libraries News: Bert Chapman's book Space Warfare and Defense: A Historical Encyclopedia and Research Guide has been published by ABC-CLIO. Bert made a presentation on this book at the recent FDLP Conference in Kansas City which is accessible here on the FDLP desktop. Book content focuses on how important space has become to U.S. and foreign military and intelligence military activities and to the domestic and international economies. The first part is a history of U.S., Soviet/Russian, Chinese, and European Community military space programs and the second part contains research assistance for space policy resources from U.S. Government agencies as well as U.S. and international research institutions, and scholarly monographs and journals. He also did a presentation with Lou Malcomb and Marianne Ryan on the Indiana Government Document Light Archive and the role of government information in academic libraries for the Purdue Libraries Deans Advisory Council. The Purdue Libraries and the Purdue Provosts Task Force on Scholarly Communication will present a conference called "The (e)volving World of Scholarly Communication and its Impact on Your Promotion and Tenure" on May 6. Information on this event can be found here The documents collection is focusing is retrospective cataloging efforts on light archive agencies. We have made great progress retrospectively cataloging paper Transportation Dept. publications and microfiche from the Defense Department and EPA. (Bert Chapman)

Federal Food Safety Resources-Food safety has been in the news in recent months and there are a number of federal resources users can turn to for additional information. Many laws are in Title 21 of the U.S. Code with sample chapters from this section on food inspection including Chapter 9 covering the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, Chapter 12 covering meat inspection, and Chapter 15 Egg Products review. The Code of Federal Regulations contains regulations used to enforce food safety laws with some of these regulations being in Title 21 and others being in 9 CFR 300-599. There are several agencies involved in federal food inspection efforts and you can make whatever conclusion you want about the efficiency of these efforts. The Agriculture Dept's Food Safety and Inspection Service is responsible for regulating meat, poultry, and egg products and their website will contain a variety of useful resources including Quarterly Regulatory and Enforcement Reports. The National Agricultural Library's Food Safety Information Center also features useful resources. The Commerce Department's Seafood Inspection Program provides information about this voluntary inspection program. An EPA pesticides provides additional information, as does www.foodsafety.gov/, and the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition which is responsible for regulating most other areas of food safety. The origins of federal food safety date back to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and Purdue chemistry professor and Indiana state chemist Harvey W. Wiley (1844-1930) and eventually the USDA Chief Chemist was one of the key individuals involved in getting this legislation enacted.

Links to other governmental resources on food safety, including congressional ones, are provided on a website I created for a Food Regulation class at Purdue which is accessible here (Bert Chapman)

United States Bureau of Reclamation-The United States Bureau of Reclamation is an Interior Department agency created as part of the 1902 Reclamation Act. The bureau serves as the U.S.' largest wholesale water supplier and second largest hydroelectric power producers. Its operations ard facilities are concentrated in 17 western states and its facilities provide substantial flood control, recreational, and fish and wildlife benefits. The Bureau's website www.usbr.gov/ provides additional information about its operations. Accessible information resources include agency budget information, technical manuals, some research papers, a glossary, information on dams such as Hoover Dam, and information on power plants. Purdue serves as the collection steward library for this agency's publications as part of the Indiana Government Document Light Archive. Additional reading on this agency and background information on federal water policy is provided by William O. Ware, The Bureau of Reclamation (Praeger, 1973), Donald J. Pisani, To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848-1902 (University of New Mexico Press, 1992), and Donald J. Pisani, Water and the American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 (University of California Press, 2002).(Bert Chapman)

Upcoming Conferences: American Library Association Annual Conference-Anaheim, CA June 26-July 1
American Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference-Portland, OR July 12-15
Special Libraries Association-Seattle-June 15-18

Volume 13, #2 Fall/Winter 2007-2008

From the Chair: As a relative Indiana newbie (with a whole two and a half years as a Hoosier!), I was looking forward to the Fall INDIGO meeting at the Indiana State Library on Friday, November 2, 2007. What a great place! The meeting was a success, thanks to our hosts, Jesse Lewis and Katie Springer, and the entire state library staff. Thank you all for the wonderful venue and hospitality.

The meeting focused on three main things: The Indiana Light Archive for Federal Documents, the Business Meeting, and the presentation by Indiana Public Access Councilor Heather Willis Neal. Along with these three main topics, Kirsten Leonard presented the Chair's Recognition of Service Award to Bert Chapman, which is a well-deserved recognition of all that Bert has done over the years to support and advance INDIGO's mission.

Perhaps the biggest thing to come from the fall meeting is that, with the Light Archive initiatives going forward, we hope to reorient INDIGO to focus more on Indiana state documents. While GPO's many changes will continue occupying a chunk of our professional lives, we all seemed to see a need to focus on making sure INDIGO is leading the way on ensuring that Indiana's documents and publications are both documented and preserved for future generations. This will require a ton of work, but it is clear that organizations such as INDIGO are the ideal venue to lead the way in coordinating ambitious initiatives.

Finally, we have assembled a great team of leaders to spearhead these efforts, but it will always be true that every member's eforts will be needed if we are to see success in all of our projects. The new INDIGO Executive Board is:
David Oldenkamp, Chair 2007-2008
Becky Byrum, Asst. Chair/Chair-Elect 2007-2008-Chair 2008/2009
Kirsten Leonard, Immediate Past Chair 2006-2007
Jesse Lewis, Secretary-Treasurer 2006-2008
Bert Chapman, Communications Chair 2006-2008
Lou Malcomb, Programs Chair 2007-2008
Wendell Johnting, FedRec 2006-2008
Tim Sutherland, StateRec 2006-2008

I know that I have already learned a lot from my interactions with INDIGO. I hope that the coming year finds us investigating new projects, continuing to support the Indiana Light Archives initiative, and continuing to share our wealth of expertise in international, federal, state, and local documents across our membership (David Oldenkamp-INDIGO Chair, 2007-2008).

Purdue University Libraries News-Bert Chapman's book Space Warfare and Defense: A Historical Encyclopedia and Research Guide will be published by ABC-Clio in March 2008. General information and a description (including the cover picture) are available here Our retrospective cataloging efforts continue and we have essentially finished cataloging all paper congressional committee hearings and prints from 1975-present. We are cataloging paper copies of agency publications from the late 1970s-early 1990s from agencies we're assuming responsibility for under the Indiana Government Document Light Archive such as EPA, FEMA, the Transportation Dept., and others. We are also beginning to catalog microfiche from the late 1970s-early 1990s from light archive agencies such as NOAA, the Defense Dept., and EPA. We anticipate the continuation of this microfiche cataloging for the foreseeable future. Earlier this year, I had to discontinue cataloging electronic only international and foreign government publications while a group in the Libraries Technical Services Department examined "issues" involved with cataloging born digital resources. They have not reached a verdict as of this writing. I have also assumed the responsibility of being the Political Science Librarian which takes away from some of my time with documents. (Bert Chapman)

Purdue Climate Change Research Center-The Purdue Climate Change Research Center provides interdisciplinary perspectives on climate change topics. Its website can be found at www.purdue.edu/climate/ and features research and educational information. (Bert Chapman).

Indiana Light Archive and Reference Training-As we get deeper into implementing the Indiana Light Archive, collection steward libraries will become increasingly responsible for training other librarians in using government agency resources from the agencies for which they serve as collection stewards. I believe all future INDIGO meetings should include time for librarians at collection steward agencies to make brief presentations on the information resources of agencies they are responsible for to enhance awareness of these agencies information resources. (Bert Chapman).

INDIGO Memories and Thoughts: The most lasting memories I have of INDIGO is the camaraderie and passion of the government documents librarians and staff who have faithfully attended INDIGO meetings. When I was first appointed as IPFW's federal depository librarian my qualifications included one library school government documents course and a personal interest in government documents as primary sources for historical research. I had a lot to learn about Federal Depository Library requirements. For me the dedicated government documents profesionals of INDIGO provided information, advice, and lots of inspiration. Some of my favorite memories:

**Attending FDLP conferences with a group of the INDIGO delegation.
**Visiting different depository libraries around the state.
**Programs on Census, GIS, the USA Patriot Act, Agriculture, and Nanotechnology.
**Getting to hang out with other government documents lovers.

You have to be special to love government documents-they don't fit in (the documents, not the people!) the regular collection, they have their own weird classification system, their own acquisitions and processing system, and their finding aids until recently are tools resembling messages in code. INDIGO is my favorite organization and always will be. (Cheryl Truesdell).

Congratulations to Bert Chapman for being awarded with the INDIGO Chair's Recognition of Service Award. Bert continues to contribute to the success of INDIGO through his hard work as Publications Chair. He has supported the INDIGO web page for several years. He has also continued to publish the INDIGO newsletter twice per year. As we all know, it isn't easy to write and it really isn't easy getting others to write! I think it is very important to recognize our longstanding members who continue to contribute in officer positions. For those who are unable to commit to an officer position, there are many ways to contribute on the ad hoc task forces or committees as well as writing an article about government documents for the INDIGO newsletter. All offers to participate are welcome! (Kirsten Leonard).

Congratulations to INDIGO as it begins its 15th anniversary year. Crawford's Bakery made us a fantastic cake to begin our celebrations. Here's to another fantastic 15 years! (note: insert cake photo below).

Highlights from the October FDLP Meeting in Washington, DC:
* One of the major issues addressed by GPO was the change in focus for the inspections from procedural to Public Access Assessments. The focus on the program is on eliminating and reducing barriers the public faces in gaining access to government information in depository libraries. IU-Kokomo has addressed one of the simple problems discussed and that was to include the depository sticker on the outside door to the building that the library is housed in and not just on the door to the library. One issue that is being discussed and has not yet been addressed is collection access for minors. We currently require a photo ID or parent's signature for patron access to electronic information and borrowing privileges. GPO recognizes this as a barrier to minors. One other area GPO is focusing on is barriers to electronic access for the public such as filtering and requiring personal identification. (Kirsten Leonard)
*Another highlight from the meeting was meeting with library staff from Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio depository libraries. We are hoping to forge new cooperative efforts with these states including a joint meeting of INDIGO and state GODORT groups. (Kirsten Leonard).

Indiana State Library News-Thank you to INDIGO for hilding the Fall 2007 meeting here at the Indiana State Library and a special thank you to all members attending the Indiana Light Archive presentation. It was a pleasure meeting everyone Nov. 2 and working with Kirsten and Jesse to finalize fall meeting details. Please contact the Indiana Light Archive planning group as questions come up about this exciting long-term project.

The Indiana State Library has received positive feedback about Friday Facts: Goverment Information You Can Use which we've posted to listservs weekly since the first week in October. Please tell us what is useful to you and what you would like to see in future issues. We are setting up a distribution list for individuals who are not members of listservs.

Reminders about weeding state and federal documents:

DISCARDING STATE DOCUMENTS-Before discarding any state documents, contact Jesse Lewis jlewis@library.in.gov or (317) 232-3768 with a list of weeded titles. The Indiana State Library may use these items for the permanent collection and future digitization/access projects.

DISCARDING CENSUS MATERIALS-Posting disposal lists is the usual way to weed federal depository documents from your library's collection. The State Data Center appreciates any notification libraries can provide about Census materials being deselected, especially historical and Indiana-related Census materials which are not widely available. Please contact Katie Springer kspringer@library.in.gov
or (317) 232-3732 with Census Bureau titles (current SuDoc stem C 3.2 through C 3.300+) (Katie Srpinger)

Upcoming Conferences
American Library Association Midwinter Meeting (Philadelphia-January 11-16, 2008)
Spring Federal Depository Library Conference (Kansas City, MO-March 31-April 3, 2008)

Volume 13, #1 Spring/Summer 2007

From the Chair: The Spring INDIGO meeting at Purdue was a strong success! INDIGO would like to thank our hosts, Bert Chapman, Government Information Librarian, Judy Nixon, Humanities, Social Science and Education (HSSE) Librarian; and Jim Mullins, Dean of Libraries. The speakers were excellent and I think they learned something from else, as well. Katie Bourne's question to Tim Collins, Purdue Homeland Security Institute Managing Director, on whether the Muscatatuck Training facility had a research center really lit a fire and may result in a very interesting future job opportunity for someone in government documents librarianship!

The Business Meeting agenda was too ambitious, so we have much left to accomplish during the next few months before the Fall Meeting. The ALI Indiana Light Archives Planning Group would appreciate any suggestions, comments, or questions on any part of the Stewardship Guidelines draft. I will also be asking for feedback on the INDIGO Participation Grant guidelines that will be posted on the INDIGO listserv.

The major Fall Business Meeting agenda item will be reexamining INDIGO's vision and purpose. Currently, INDIGO purposes, as described in INDIGO Bylaws Article II are:
(a) To Provide a forum for dicsussion of problems and concerns, and for the exchange of ideas by librarians working with government information;
(b) To Provide a force for initiating and supporting programs to increase availability, use, and bibliographic control of government information;
(c) To increase communication between government information librarians and other librarians;
(d) To contribute to the extension and improvement of education and training of government information librarians;
(e) And to speak for Federal and State depositories concerning government information issues.

INDIGO was an absolute lifeline for me when I began my career in documents librarianship at Indiana University-Kokomo in 2003. It was both a means of learning more about government documents resources and managing these resources. INDIGO is also the best way to get to know other Indiana documents librarians. This opportunity to network and continue professional development is not available in many other states and should not be taken for granted. Through the revisioning we may decide to focus our efforts to fewer of the described purposes or instead renew our efforts to take action on state or federal government information issues. We may also try new communication avenues such as using Polycom or another telecommunication system to allow more member participation. Thank you to Jesse Lewis for the suggestion! While nothing beats the opportunity to meet face to face, the travel distance can be prohibitive and this would allow more voices to be heard (Kirsten Leonard, Chair 2006-2007).

Geosciences Government Information Resources: Two little known USGS databases can be used for help locating geologic maps available in a wide number of sources and digital USGS publications. They include the National Geologic Map Database and the USGS Publications Warehouse . The National Geologic Map Database is a searchable index to more than 78,000 paper and digital geologic maps produced by federal and state agencies. It includes maps related to geology, geophysics, paleontology, geochemistry, and other geology-related topics. The database includes links to printed maps in federal and state geological survey publications (such as USGS Professional Papers), scanned and born digital maps and digital spatial data. Links are provided to sites with digital maps and spatial data.

USGS Publications Warehouse contains information about more than 78,000 USGS publications including citations to USGS series published as early as 1880. The Warehouse also contains electronic versions of many USGS publications, including new publications, which are added regularly. Available content ranges from full text to bibliographic citations only. The database will eventually include citations to all USGS-authored products. Currently it primarily contains USGS published products. This database enables users to search for recently published reports, including reports published during a particular month and year, which have been registered with the Publications Warehouse. It does not include USGS-authored articles published in scientific journals. It can be used to search for and link to a publication's full content. Availability, price, and purchase options are also provided for print publications. Besides geological publications, the USGS Publications Warehouse contains citations to a number of Biological Resources Discipline report citations emphasizing historical research reports. These citations include U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports as well as National Biological Survey reports priot to creation of USGS' Biological Resources Division (Linda Zellmer)

Depauw University News: Recent work in our libraries includes finally retrospectively cataloging Smithsonian Institution material, much of which WorldCat shows held only by a handful of Indiana libraries. Titles include a fairly complete run of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (SI 1.7:), and the Bulletin (SI 2.3), and other Bureau of American Ethnology material.

Sadly, we've found over the decades that those books had been sitting uncataloged on our shelves and the libraries had purchased reprints of several titles including The Winnebago Tribe, Historical Sketch of the Cherokee (we bought a reprint of a portion!), and Cherokee Nation of Indians. Trying to remain optimistic, we note that ech of these three books has circulated almost a dozen times over the life of the due date stamp in the back, which bodes well for future use of material being cataloged now!

We've also done the contribution series, which were mostly not full text online (and a couple not even abstracted online) when we started:

Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology (SI 1.33)
Smithsonian Contributions to Astrophysics (SI 1.12/2)
Smithsonian Contributions to Botany (SI 1.29)
Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (SI 1.30)
Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences (SI 1.26)
Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences (SI 1.41)
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (SI 1.27)

We welcome ILL requests; even if OCLC doesn't show us holding a specific title. Feel free to contact me to see if it's still uncataloged. I've very happily cut apart the pages of several books that have never before been used, so our ILL staff could scan individual reports to send to other Indiana libraries and look forward to filling more requests. Summer plans include culling materials received between 1976-2002. Let me know if anyone has a wish list! (Kathryn Millis)

Indiana University-Bloomington Government Information News: Outreach/Marketing-During the 2006-2007 school year, IUB was fortunate to have three SLIS interns. Two students worked on our outreach/marketing efforts with numerous wonderful displays, a draft of a tri-fold handout for a "citizens guide", a markeing plan and photographs for our website. A big achievement was producing a video tour of our department (Government Information, Microforms, and Statistical Services (GIMSS), which is accessible through the library homepage. We also mounted this video on YouTube with the tags "IU", "Bloomington", and "Government Documents" to increase video traffic and depository awareness. Go to http://bl-libg-doghill.ads.iu.edu/gpd-web/GIMSS.mov to access this video. (Rhianna Williams and Dean Sullivan)

Indiana Documents Collection: Catie Kosinski, the third SLIS intern, worked on developing an "Indiana Collection" which involves identifying all Indiana documents in our collection and moving them and their IUCAT records to a new location. This allows us to better manage Indiana documents in the future so we are prepared for future digitization and preservation projects as well as user assistance. She also reviewed and updated many state and local documents web pages. (Lou Malcomb)

Microforms: During the last fiscal year, Indiana University Libraries continued receiving numerous government information related microfoilm sets INDIGO librarians would be interested in. Notable titles include Manhattan Project: Official History and Documents, Records of President Johnson's Commission on Law Enforcement, Part 1: Commission and Memoranda, and Richard M. Nixon National Security Files, 1969-1974. Many of the guides are available electronically via vendor stites such as UPA or Gale These collections circulate on interlibrary loan. (Julie Zamostny)

Historic Indiana Maps: We are working on updating the Historic Indiana Maps website and database with site refresh scheduled for July 1. Until then you the old site as well as the IUPUI site . [IUPUI received a grant from LSTA last year to digitize several maps and provide access to them.] This summer we hope to add access to many of the older topo maps, highway maps, etc. If there are specific maps you'd like digital access to (produced by federal or state agencies to avoid copyright problems) contact me so we can put them on our priority list. (Lou Malcomb)

FDLP Browse Topics: In November 2006, Lou Malcomb and Julie Zamostny began compiling and organizing resources to be listed on the brand new Indiana Browse Topics subject bibliography. The bibliography is currently being uploaded onto the new Browse Topics website. When completed, the guide will provide links to information about Indiana's government, business and labor, demographics, education, geography, health, history, natural resources, transportation, and veterans affairs. Other INDIGO libraries have contributed to the Browse Topics partnership so you might look at this Oklahoma State University library based resources in the future (Julie Zamostny)

Purdue University Libraries News: 2007 marks the centennial celebration of Purdue University Libraries being a federal depository library. A formal celebration marking this event will occur at Purdue during the May 4, 2007 INDIGO meeting and we are looking forward to your attendance. There will be exhibits of historic and current U.S. documents in the HSSE Library during this display. Purdue is also looking forward to hosting the Spring INDIGO meeting.

Numerous developments are occurring with Purdue's Documents Department collection. To accomodate materials being brought over to the HSSE Library from the Consumer and Family Sciences and Psychology Libraries which are being closed, a significant number of paper U.S. documents including the Congressional Serial Set and Congressional Record have been transferred to another location within Stewart Center. This resulted in a major shift of documents in HSSE which we are still in the process of getting organized. We are generally pleased with how our current records Marcive tapeload is working out although there are some bugs in the process. We continue making progress with our retrospective cataloging with significant areas of accomplishment including Y 4.L 11/4, Y 4.H 89, Y 4.H 88, Y 4.In 8/4, and Y 4.F 49. More materials are in the pipeline and we hope to finish congressional committee hearings and prints
from 1975-the early 1990s later this year. We also are making progress cataloging electronic only international
government organization resources and Australian, British, and Canadian government eresources.

Numerous interesting resources are provided by the Libraries E-Scholar database which I mentioned in the previous INDIGO
newsletter. These include forthcoming e-data sets from Purdue researchers, the text of many articles written by Purdue faculty and staff, and various resources from the Libraries Archives and Special Collections. In this latter area, I particularly recommend the webcasts of the annual newsreels of developments at Purdue and digitzed images and documents about Amelia Earhart. I have also finished work on my book Space Warfare and Defense for ABC-Clio and am waiting for the publication process to begin. March 2008 is the targeted publication date.

The Libraries have also been involved in planning for participation in the Indiana Government Document Light Archive project and thinking about our responsibilities in this initiative. (Bert Chapman)

Indiana History: Two recent articles of possible interest to readers appeared in the March 2007 issue of the Indiana Magazine of History published by the Indiana Historical Society. One article "We Cannot Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear: Eugenics in the Hoosier Heartland" covers the influence of the eugenics movement in early 20th century Indiana making use of Indiana state documents as source material while another article "Mr. Halleck's New Deal: Congressman Charles Halleck and the Limits to Reform" describes how this long-time Republican Representative interacted with his constituents in responding to federal New Deal legislation. An additional article in this issue examines exhibits at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, IL. (Bert Chapman)

Speech Delivered at Purdue Depository Library Centennial Celebration-May 4, 2007-Thank you to everyone who has come today to celebrate Purdue University Libraries federal depository library centennial. Congress passed legislation in 1907 granting depository library status to land-grant universities as a result of the desire of a congressional commission to enhance federal printing efficiency. Rep. Charles Landis of Logansport and New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt, known to history as "Boss Platt," were two of the key sponsors responsible for making this legislation a reality and increasing the number of federal depository libraries to 615.

Theodore Roosevelt was President in 1907 and the Speaker of the House was Danville, Illinois' Joseph Cannon who was noted for his authoritarian management style and cantankerous personality. A key issue confronting Congress and the nation that year was the controversial racially charged trial of soldiers in Brownsville, TX over a 1906 shooting incident in that community which would receive congressional investigative scrutiny that would produce reports that would become one of the many historically significant documents in Purdue's government information resources collection.

Tremendous historical, political, social, and technological developments have followed during the subsequent century. These include two World Wars, the Great Depression, ten decennial population censuses, seventeen presidencies, the Civil Rights movement, space race, and assorted agricultural, energy, health care, and environmental matters requiring federal government investigation and documentation.

From an exclusively paper publication distribution environment in 1907, there has been tremendous diversity in the formats government information has been distributed in. These multiple formats include microforms, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, maps, and the Internet including audio and video webcasts. Providing timely and effective access to these resources is an ongoing professional commitment of myself and my colleagues at other federal depository libraries in Indiana and nationally.

An equally important component of this professional commitment is providing the American public with free access to these resources and to our respective institutions primary users. Government information librarians firmly believe that Americans are entitled to have free access to historical, contemporary, and future government information resources produeced by our government and paid for with our tax dollars. We firmly believe that an informed populace is the best guarantor of a vibrant, accountable, and effective republican governmental system.

Consequently, depository librarians at 1,250 libraries nationwide seek to build and maintain collections reflecting the diversity of information on subjects ranging from accounting to zoology produced by the U.S. Government as the world's largest publisher. Government information users have needs such as planning their summer vacation, getting instructions on filling out tax forms, renewing drivers licenses, checking the status of legislation or regulations, determining the current Consumer Price Index for energy, finding out how to export Ipods to China, and learning more about controversial historical and contemporary issues such as the Brownsville soldiers trial, the Hiss-Chambers case, embryonic stem cell research, and ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is also possible to use government information and statistics to support your positions on public policy issues regardless of your partisan or ideological perspectives. By using the rich government information resources available in Purdue University Libraries and other federal depository libraries, individuals can gain heightened and more substantive understanding of historical and contemporary public policy issues than the often superficial perspective provided by traditional and online media outlets and, in some cases, by scholarly literature.

On behalf of my depository library colleagues in Indiana and nationally, I encourage you to visit federal depository libraries, read government documents, and visit government agency websites to learn more about our government and the strengths and weaknesses of its programs. The Internet's global reach also makes it possible for us to gain comparable levels of increased knowledge about the activities of many local, state, foreign, and international government organizations. Take advantage of these opportunities to expand your intellectual horizons and thank you for your attendance and interest. (Bert Chapman)

Indiana Light Archive Collection Website : The Indiana Light Archive website has information about this project including the Collection Stewardship Guidelines document which INDIGO members are encouraged to read. (Bert Chapman)

Volume 12, #2 Fall/Winter 2006

From the Chair: We have begun a new INDIGO membership year running from November 1-October 31. Those interested in government documents are encouraged to join INDIGO and the membership fee is only $10. Contact new INDIGO Secretary/Treasurer Jesse Lewis (317) 232-3670 or jlewis@statelib.lib.in.us for more information. Contact Cheryl Truesdell at truesdel@ipfw.edu to be added to the INDIGO-L listserv. INDIGO membership is not required to join the listserv, so encourage general reference staff or any interested in government documents to join. INDIGO membership is not required to attend the program portion of the spring and fall meetings, attendees need only pay the $5 meeting fee. We have had some excellent speakers in previous years, most recently Andy Zircle, Indiana Homeland Security Dept., and Morton Marcus, columnist, who would be of interest to many without direct responsibilities in government documents.

The new INDIGO Executive Board is: Kirsten Leonard, Chair 2006-2007
David Oldenkamp, Assist Chair/Chair Elect 2006-07, Chair 2007-08
Jennifer Bryan Morgan, Immediate Past Chair 2006-2007
Jesse Lewis, Secretary/Treasurer 2006-2008
Wendell Johnting, FedREC 2006-2008
Tim Sutherland, StateREC 2006-2008
The following appointments were made by the incoming Chair:
Bert Chapman, Chair Communications 2006-2008
Andrea Morrison, Chair Programs (until replacement is found)

We have several initiatives to address this year. The first continues the process of clarifying and redefining INDIGO in light of technology changes. New FedREC and StateREC chairs are charged with updating these committees descriptions in light of technology changes and current INDIGO practices. Current bylaws describe these positions as:

a. Federal Depository Representatives Committee (FedREC). This committee is composed of an elected chair who is an INDIGO member and serves for two years, with a limit of two consecutive terms. This committee is charged with determing a means to select a representative who is a Government Information Librarian to represent each of the federal depository libraries within the state. This Committee shall poll these representativesm as needed, on issues directly affecting the Federal Depository Libraries. The Committee will then formulate and articulate a position and communicate this to appropriate parties as representing the position of the Indiana Federal Depository Libraries. These positions shall also be forwarded to the INDIGO Executive Committee for further action as appropriate.

b. State Depository Representatives Committee (StateREC). This committee is composed of an elected Chair who is an INDIGO member and serves for two years, with a limit of two consecutive terms. This committee is charged with determining a means to select a representative who is a Government Information Librarian to represent each of the State Depository Libraries within the state. This Committee shall poll these representatives as needed, on issues directly affecting the State Depository Libraries. The Committee will then formulate and articulate a position and communicate this to appropriate parties as representing the position of the Indiana State Depository Libraries. These positions shall also be forwarded to the INDIGO Executive Committee for further action as appropriate.

We are looking for someone to take over as Program Committee Chair from Andrea Morrison, who has done an outstanding job. Kate Cruikshank has voluntered to assist the Chair. The Program Committee Chair, with committee assistance, proposed the professional development portion pf the Spring and Fall INDIGO meeting. This is an excellent opportunity to network with government speakers and other government documents librarians and support staff. We are also looking for at least one additional committee member. Please contact Kirsten Leonard kaleonar@iuk.edu (765-455-9346) if you are interested.

We are also looking to develop a Government Documents Support Staff Directory to provide contacts for those who may not be able or interested in attending the INDIGO meetings. Look for an INDIGO-L posting for more information. We will also looking into providing an INDIGO scholarship to provide assistance to those who would be interested an INDIGO meeting but are not provided with any financial support from their library.

Other new and ongoing initiatives include digitizing INDIGO archives, new membership through Wendell Johnting in the Indiana Coalition for Open Government (ICOG), ongoing efforts by Bob Hinton to host the Spring FDLP Conference in Indianapolis, and a response from INDIGO concerning the closing of EPA libraries (Andrea Morrison, Kirsten Leonard, and Mary Beth Minick). Several INDIGO members are part of the Indiana Light Archives Group which is working to achieve a cooperative complete circulating archive of all U.S. federal depository documents, the first archive project on a state-wide scale in the nation (Cheryl Truesdell, Bert Chapman, Anika Williams, and Kirsten Leonard).

This is a very interesting time to be working in government documents. I look forward to working with all of you in the upcoming year. (Kirsten Leonard-INDIGO Chair 2006-2007)

Purdue University Libraries News-Purdue Libraries, along with Indiana University, the University of Notre Dame, and the Indiana State Library, are working with GPO on a plan to develop a distributed light archive of tangible format U.S. Government documents. Marianne Ryan, the former Documents Librarian at the University of Maryland, is now Associate Dean for Learning at Purdue University Libraries. Purdue has hired Chris Miller as its new GIS specialist. He had previously been Documents Librarian and GIS specialist at Texas A&M University International in Laredo. The Libraries new E-Scholar service provides access to Purdue University and Libraries datasets, digital documents, and archival resources. We have received approval to do a current records Marcive tapeload and we will begin receiving records in Nov. 2006. Retrospective cataloging has made significant progress with congressional Veterans Affairs and Small Business Committees (Y 4.V 64/3, Y 4.V 64/4, Y 4.Sm 1, and Y 4.Sm 1/2) along with some Education Dept. publications ED 1.2. We continue working on other congressional committee hearings and cataloging of selected electronic Australian, British, and Canadian government information resources continues. Sandy Barrett is the new departmental staff member. (Bert Chapman)

Indiana History-The Indiana Historical Society has published a new compilation of essays on Indiana Governors. The Governors of Indiana, edited by Linda C. Gugin and James E. St. Clair, provides information on this office's historical origins and evolution and chapters on territorial and state governors ranging from William Henry Harrison to Mitch Daniels. These chapters provide biographical information on governors and analysis of key developments of their tenure. Chapters conclude with bibliographical references and information on the location of their papers. The book's ISBN is 0-87195-196-7 (Bert Chapman)

Interesting Books by Syracuse University Geography Professor-Mark Monmonier, a Syracuse University Geography professor, has written a number of books that make extensive use of government documents and cover government policies. A work of his I just finished reading is Spying With Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy (University of Chicago Press, 2002). This work covers surveillance technology such as Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) and how it can be used in areas as diverse as agriculture, environmental monitoring, meteorology, criminal justice including tracking sex predators, traffic management, tracking terrorist activities, and using postal and census data for marketing purposes. Other books Monmonier has written include Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection (University of Chicago Press, 2004), Bushmanders and Bullwinkles: How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections (University of Chicago Press, 2001), Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America (University of Chicago Press, 1997), and others. His website is www.markmonmonier.com/ (Bert Chapman)

Indiana University Library News-125 Years Serving as a Federal Depository
Indiana University will celebrate its 125th birthday as a depository on December 30, 2006. The letter from then Senator Benjamin Harrison announcing our depository status will be posted with the press release. We are planning a small celebration with cake for early January. Happy Birthday to US!

Staff Update: Microforms and Public Service Coordinator: Justin Miller jupmille@indiana.edu started in GIMSS in November and will coordinate payroll, workstations, and hourly staff. He is a Purdue graduate and will be enrolling in the MIS program next year.

Public Services Supervisor: Julie Zamostny jzamostn@indiana.edu has several years of federal information experience and, in addition to providing service with microforms and our collections, is helping with federal documents and the floppy disk project.
She is currently enrolled in SLIS and expects to finish in 2007.

David Oldenkamp, IUB's new International Studies Librarian, is collection manager for International Government Organizations including the UN. Bob Goehlert serves as West European Studies collection manager including our European Union depository. Andrea Singer remains Foreign Documents Librarian and Librarian for India Studies. Contact information for all is available here

Changes Just Keep Coming-Because of budget constraints, you may hear rumors the Geography & Map Library is being closed. This is a preliminary announcement and full discussions about that campus library have not taken place but will in the next year. This doesn't mean any service or collection reduction, just that location and staffing may change. G-Map is not the only campus library to be discussed.

This library's map collection is a historical collection where all U.S. topo maps and revisions are retained, along with collections from other countries. All maps circulate on Interlibrary Loan except for our collection of historic Indiana maps. Many of these are coming online through the Geography and Map Historic Maps of Indiana Website. More will be available when an LSTA grant with IUPUI is completed. More than 300 historic Indiana maps have been scanned and will be on their website within the year at this website

ALF Update-The Auxiliarly Library FAcility, housing more than 275,000 documents, is fully encumbered. Wells Library Research Collection overcrowding requires that remaining space be used for these materials. ALF 2 and 3 planning has begun. Almost all ALF housed documents may be requested on ILL with only a small portion listed as "restricted-must be used at the IUB Lilly Library." If your users come to Bloomington to use materials, they should request items to be delivered in advance by using IUCAT.

Lexis-Nexis Products-Just wanted everyone to know that we acquired the Congressional Research Digital Collection from Lexis-Nexis. If you need a CRS report, issue brief, or major study, it is probably there. Under the license we are permitted to send thesse on ILL but in PRINT only. (Lou Malcomb)

Indiana Register-The Indiana Register is the official publication of the state of Indiana and is the mans for state agencies to publish the full text of proposed rules and final rules as mandated under various Indiana Codes, including IC 4-22-2-40, IC 4-22-2-41, IC 4-22-7-5, and IC 4-22-7-7. The final rules, which are policy statements with the force of law, are codified into the Indiana Administrative Code. The Indiana Register also publishes gubernatorial executive orders, State Attorney General opinions, and various notices.

The IR has only been in existence since 1978 and has always been published monthly and distributed to depository libraries in paper form until about five years ago, when a CD-ROM version of the IR replaced the paper version.

A recent law change now mandates that the IR be electonic only and how an Internet database is the official version. Several questions about an Internet only IR have concerned Indiana librarians.

1. Permanent Access. Will the electronic only IR database retain all documents and be posted indefinitely?

2. Security and authenticity. How secure is the database and is there a method in place to authenticate documents that are posted to it?

3. Citation of the IR. The original method of citation was to be the URL of the document instead of the volume and page as was used in the paper version. Would the URL's remain persistent or would they be subject to change? How practical was a lengthy and cumbersome URL in legal documents?

The official IR database replaced the paper version in July 2006 and some of these concerns have been addressed. With regard to permanent access, IC 4-22-8-2c states "The publisher may meet the requirement to publish the Indiana Register electronically by permanently (emphasis mine) publishing a copy of the Indiana Register on the Internet." It is hoped that the "permanently" refers to always keeping each document archived in perpetuity rather than having a permanent database in which content is removed. According to the IR Database User's Guide, it contains documents from volume 20, 2001 and will continue to archive each year's documents[1].

IR document citation has gotten somewhat easier as URL's have been dropped in favor of Document Identification Numbers, or DIN's. These numbers are still lengthly (ex: 20060726-IR-317050065FRA) but at least they point to a specific document and not a web page address that might change as web pages are shifted or moved in files.

Concerns still remain about other questions, though. While the Legislatie Services Agency assures users that the site is secure, the possibility of someone hacking into the database and altering content is real. And there seems to be no method by which documents printed from the site can be authenticated.

Current law, IC 4-22-8-2a, states that the IR is to be a serial publication. The database clearly does not meet that requirement and the courts might be called upon to decide if this will make rules published in IR unenforcable[2]. (Becky Byrum)

[1]User's Guide to the IR Database, <www.in.gov/legislative/iac/faqs.pdf>
[2]Marcia J. Oddi, "General Assembly's Role in Making Indiana Rules and Statues Available to the Public," Res Gestae, july/August 2006, 19-26.

Constitution Day at Indiana State University-As a way of promoting Constitution Day this past Sept 17, I did something a bit different. Earlier I found two "Disappearing Civil Liberties Mugs" in a catalog produced by Acorn Company and ordered them ($21 plus shipping). The Bill of Rights is printed on the outside of each mug and parts of them disappear when hot liquids are poured into the mug. Instead of having a drawing for these mugs, at the beginning of September I put two gift baskets of drinkable/edible goodies containing copies of the Constitution. I displayed them behind our Government Documents Service Desk and at the library's Fall Extravaganza along with ballots and pencils. I also sent word to the two individuals in charge of ISU's American Democracy Project (who mentioned it a "Pizza and Politics" event to hungry students in attendance); one of them is a Political Science professor who mentioned it to her students. Copies of the notice below were set up in several locations within our library, all with a photo of the mug beside it.

In honor of Constitution Day, September 17 (which is on a Sunday this year) a drawing for two gift-baskets will be held at the Government Documents Unit at 2:30 p.m. on September 18. Each gift basket contains a "Disappearing Civil Liberties" mug, 12 oz. of Starbucks coffee, shortbread, and other goodies. To participate, just write your name (you don't have to be a student), phone number, and email address on the ballot provided, and place in the entry box-it's on our service desk, hours being 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Mon-Fri. Good Luck!

We got over 350 entries by afternoon on the 18th (and with wider campus publicity would have had more), and the two winners were happy to stop by and pick up their prizes. (Kathleen Gaul)

Volume 12, #1 Spring/Summer 2006

From the Chair: (Jennifer Bryan)

INDIGO Members Elected or Appointed to Various Offices: Jennifer Bryan is the AALL Government Documents Special Interest Section Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, Sally Holterhoff is the AALL Vice President/President-elect and becomes President in July, Miriam Murphy is the Vice President/President Elect of the Ohio Regional Association of Law Libraries, and Andrea Morrison is an ALA Council Counselor at Large.

Purdue University Libraries News: We have made continual progress in retrospectively cataloging U.S. documents this past year dating from the mid-1970s to early 1990s. A large number of Justice Department, federal court system, and State Department publications from this time period have been cataloged. We have also made significant accomplishments cataloging congressional committee hearings and prints from this era including Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (Y 4.En 2) and House Energy & Commerce Committee (Y 4.En 2/3-1981-1994), House Ways & Means Committee (Y 4.W 36), and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (Y 4.P 96/10). We're just beginning retrospective cataloging from House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committee publications (Y 4.V 64/3 & Y 4.V 64/4), and Joint Committee on Taxation (Y 4.T 19/4). We have also made significant progress cataloging electronic foreign and international government organization resources in early 2006. The three countries being emphasized are Australia, Canada, and Great Britain. All of these countries have a number of excellent government epubs with Worldcat records. Speaking of Worldcat, I encourage you to do a Worldcat corporate author search by a government agency some time and limit the search to Internet resources. You will be surprised by how many U.S. Government eresources there are in Worldcat that do not have SuDoc numbers or GPO PURLs in their records. (Bert Chapman)

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General:The 1978 Inspector General Act enacted by Congress
created independent offices of inspectors general within most federal departments. These offices are headed
by a presidentially appointed Inspector General who is subject to Senate confirmation. Inspectors Generals are
responsible for reviewing the management performance of agencies within their departments and can issue criminal
penalties if fraud is committed in the administration of agency programs by agency employees or private sector
contractors. The Homeland Security Dept's Office of Inspector General was established when this department
was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Numerous reports are accessible through this office's
website on programs by agencies such as FEMA, the Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, and
other agencies under Department of Homeland Security auspices. Examples of these repots include Semiannual
Reports to Congress describing office investigative activities (Oct. 2002-present) and annual office performance reports. The highlight of this site are the audit and inspection reports covering topics such as border security, emergency management, immigration, and terrorism. Examples of some of these reports include Transportation Security Administration's Checked Baggage Screener Training and Certification: A Letter Report (2003), Effectiveness of Customs and Border Protection Procedures to Detect Uranium in Two Smuggling Incidents (2004), USCIS Faces Challenges in Modernizing Information Technology (2005), The State of Indiana's Management of State Homeland Security Awarded During During Fiscal Years 2002 and 2003 (2005), Challenges in FEMA's Flood Map Modernization Program (2005), A Review of Remote Surveillance TEchnology Along U.S. Land Borders (2005), and Follow Up Review of the Port Security Grant Program (2006). (Bert Chapman).

Indiana Local Government GIS Sites: GIS is being used for a variety of purposes by numerous governmental jurisdictions within the U.S. These can include vegetation and soil mapping and mapping floodplains. A number of Indiana county governments are using GIS for multiple purposes. Two representative sites are Monroe County and Tippecanoe County You can search for property tax information on these sites including assessed property values,
current and recent property tax payments, and aerial or up close photos of individual properties. Whatever you think of the privacy implications of this, it is now possible to answer reference questions about area housing or economic conditions using county government GIS websites. (Bert Chapman)

Indiana History: A forthcoming book from the Indiana Historical Society Press may be of interest to INDIGO members to add to their libraries Indiana collections. The Governors of Indiana: A Biographical Dictionary is slated for publication in August 2006 and features essays on each of Indiana's governors. The book's ISBN is 0-87195-196-7 and its hardcover price is $34.95. (Bert Chapman)

Upcoming Conferences: American Library Association-New Orleans, June 22-28

Volume 11, #2 Spring/Summer 2005

From the Chair:

Andrea Morrison's International Government Organization resource presentation from the May 20, 2005 INDIGO meeting is accessible here

Cheryl Truesdell's GPO printing history presentation from the May 20, 2005 INDIGO meeting is accessible here

The INDIGO brochure is available here (Tim Sutherland)

Purdue University Libraries News: (Bert Chapman)-We continue making steady progress in retrospectively cataloging U.S. Documents from the mid-1970s to approximately 1994. We are nearly finished cataloging House Government Operations (Y 4.G 74/7)
hearings and prints, have made substantive progress with House and Senate Judiciary Committee publications (Y 4.J 89/1 & Y 4.J 89/2) from this period along with Justice Dept. and some CIA publications. We have sent a number of Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee (Y 4.En 2) publications for cataloging and continue making progress cataloging electronic only U.S. Documents. We also should have catalog records for the online versions for the Australian, British, and Canadian Hansards (Parliamentary Debates) in the Purdue Libraries catalog soon. An exhibit of CIA Documents is featured in the Government Documents display case in HSSE Library.

Defense Science Board (Bert Chapman)-The Defense Science Board (DSB) was created in 1956 in response to Hoover Commission (chaired by former President Herbert Hoover) recommendations to improve the efficiency of the Defense Department (DOD) and other federal agencies. DSB reports to the Secretary of Defense through the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. DSBs membership includes approximately 35 members and 6 Senior Fellow members who are past board chairs or long-serving members. Individuals are appointed to the DSB based on their prominence in science and technology and its applications to military operations and research. Numerous consultants also assist DSB on a temporary basis.
DSB advises DOD and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on scientific and technological issues of particular relevance to national security policymaking.

Its website provides additional information about the Board and a wide variety of information resources
including quarterly issues of its newsletters from June 1998-present and the full-text of its often pathbreaking
reports from 1993-present. A growing number of these reports has been cataloged by GPO in the Catalog
of Government Publications with representative titles including DOD Supercomputing Needs (2000), Improving
Fuel Efficiency of Weapon Platforms (2001), Managed Information Dissemination (2001), Future of the
Aircraft Carrier (2002), DOD Roles and Missions in Homeland Security (2003), Future Strategic Strike
Forces (2004), Preventing and Defending Against Clandestine Nuclear Attack (2004), and High Performance
Microchip Supply (2005). DSBs website also includes information about ongoing board projects. DSB reports
are worthwhile resources for those interested in learning about cutting edge scientific and technological
research issues affecting DOD in formulating and implementing national security policy.

Canadian National Parks-(Bert Chapman)-Besides Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, what is the
closet national park to Indiana? It's Point Pelee National Park in Leamington, Ontario, Canada, just southeast
of Windsor, Ontario and Detroit! We're all familiar with the historical studies, maps, and environmental
management works produced by the U.S. National Park Service. It's also likely many of us have visited
properties administered by the National Park Service such as national parks, monuments, and historic sites.
Canada's national parks are also worth visiting and learning more about. Parks Canada is the Canadian government agency responsible for administering and managing Canadian national parks and historic sites. Their website
provides access to a wide variety of information resources such as press releases, visitors information, policy
and management documents for individual parks and historic sites, national parks policy documents, and links
to the websites of individual national parks, national historic sites, and marine conservation areas.

Canada's national parks and historic sites are located in all ten provinces and three territories. They range
from the bird sanctuary of Ontario's Point Pelee National Park, to the Rocky Mountain grandeur of Alberta's
Jasper National Park to Arctic themed parks such as Quttinirpaaq (Ellesmere Island) National Park in Nunavut
Territory. National historic sites administered by Parks Canada include Alexander Graham Bell National
Historic Site in Nova Scotia, Quebec's Fur Trade at Lachine, Manitoba's Riel House, and British Columbia's
Gulf of Georgia Cannery. I've been fortunate enough to visit some of these Canadian national parks and
historic sites and encourage you to do so. Parks Canada information resources can also enhance our users
understanding of these national parks and knowledge of issues such as park management, natural resources
conservation, ecology, historical preservation, and various aspects of environmental science.

Upcoming Conferences: American Library Association-Chicago-June 24-29

Volume 11, #1 Fall/Winter 2004-05

From the Chair: Greetings From Scenic Greencastle-(Kathryn Millis)-As if things weren't already tumultuous enough, this week we reasd that Google's going to scan entire libraries, including some big depositories, and supposedly let everybody read the non-copyrighted materials without charge. Personally, I'm skeptical. There's something weird if LexisNexis & Readex want to charge tens of thousands of dollars for just the Serial Set and Google plans to give it and hundreds and thousands of other non-copyrighted books (many of which will be government documents) free. LexisNexis & Readex are probably even more shocked than we are.

Once the material is scanned, Google may contractually have to let those libraries have copies, but they certainly won't have to let anybody else use it for free. They're going to try to make money off this somehow, sometime. So I suspect most of us won't see this as in any way suggesting we shouldn't continue to work on an official GPO electronic archive, and electronic archives owned by other non-profit groups.

In more immediate matters, next spring's FDLP conference has been scheduled for April 17-20th in Albuquerque, New Mexico. If we're going to have the spring INDIGO meeting on a Friday after that, I assume we'll want to plan on April 29th or May 6th, to avoid conflicts with most folks' commencements. Anybody have a preference or want to volunteer their site?

Re Albuquerque, I took a quick look at airline routes and fare, and when our students come back in January I'll have one of them research fares more and see if they can find better, then send out info on the INDIGO listserv. They'll enjoy the task, as it will be a change of pace from cataloging government documents, shelving government documents, weeding government documents, and dusting and shifting government documents. That way we don't all have to do effectively the same work of researching flights & fares.

No airline flies directly from Indy to Albuquerque. I found that on Saturday the 16th Southwest has flights from Indy to Albuquerque via Phoenix for about $140 (including fees). The downside of that is that the plane leaves Indy at 6 a.m. Travel via Las Vegas leaves at 6:30, but costs $40 more. I'm not sure that at that time of day I think a half hour is worth $40. (I assume flying back will cost about the same; this is one way, not round trip). Flying Southwest trips that start later in the day involve even more stops in even more airports, with even longer layovers. The student will gather other info so each of us who's going can consider the balance of fares & travel times without having to spend as much time searching.

I would be glad to have my student assistants work on some ohter tasks that benefit all INDIGO members. If you have old records of meetings, newsletters, a copy of the INDIGO Policies and Procedures Manual, lists of past members & officers, I would be glad to have out students digitize them & convert them to html so we can make them easier to refer to by posting them on our web site. Feel free to suggest something else.

In other news, I've contacted the Indianapolis Convention & Visitor's Association and asked them to send information on how we go about planning a possible spring 2006 or 2007 Depository Council & FDLP Meeting.

ALA is in Chicago in June. If you need a professional growth opportunity, poster session proposals are due on January 31, 2005. I promoted government documents in a poster I did last year, Cheap Reference Librarians. Anybody want to work together on a poster about or including using government documents? It's a great outreach opportunity to non-depository librarians.

Last for now, I note that INDIGO membership has been pretty stable for the years I've been involved, with several depositories barely participating (if at all). I'm going to try to get some of these folks more involved. Please let me know if you've got any suggestions, arm twisting skills, personal contacts, or blackmail quality dirt on them.

Indiana University-Bloomington News-(Lou Malcomb)-Andrea Singer will be attending the thirtieth annual Koklata Book Fair from January 26-February 6, 2005 in West Bengal, India. Benefits of traveling to book fairs include: seeing firsthand the publishing spectrum, talking with publishers, becoming aware of unusual publications of those difficult to obtain using regular channels, and networking that contributers to collection development in Indiana University libraries.

Indiana Digital Library Summit-(Lou Malcomb)-The Indiana Digital Library Summit continues to meet about every other month. The group has reviewed various documents but most important for INDIGO members to know about is the grant application process. Members hould feel free to review Summit work and its steering committee here. I completed the online Digital Survey for INDIGO, trying to note what members had indicated were important documents for future inclusion in the Indiana Digital Library. I would be very interested in hearing from INDIGO members about any proposals they plan to make for the LSTA grants, especially so I might support these should they arise at future IDL summit meetings. Feel free to contact me if there are any questions malcomb@indiana.edu

Indiana University Libraries News-(Lou Malcomb)-Chris Phillips, our microforms coordinator, transferred to the Life Sciences Library to be their Campus Library Coordinator. GIMSS has just hired Alexis Andronikos. Alexis has worked most recently with the Kelly School of Business, but previously held positions within the National Weather Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service. Feel free to email her with microfirm questions: aandroni@indiana.edu

New resources at IUB include HeritageQuest, which provides electronic access to manuscript census records and other local and family history sources, and the Digital Sanborn Maps, for all 50 states (at IUB; Indiana maps are avaliable at all campuses.) These two resources were used in a history survey course to introduce students to census data, requiring them to find information about Babe Ruth, Al Capone, and other notable individuals as well as their own great or great great grandparents, then put the information into perspective with the growth of American Cities. We have also purchased the electronic edition of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set from Lexis-Nexis with coverage ultimately encompassing 1789-1969, but currently covering only through the late 1800s. Last, but not least, we have also subscribed to receive World Bank publications through the World Bank E-Library, with an Interlibrary loan clause in the license so we can still provide these documents to ILL customers. All Indiana residents may use these products ONSITE, i.e. our license agreements include walk-ins and although coming to Bloomington isn't always preferred, it is a way for citizens to gain access to these electronic resources.

Our most exciting news is that IUB has joined a group of Libraries in a grant proposal for a LOCKSS-DOCS project involving government documents. While news about whether the group would get the grant or not will come until February, we are excited about the possibility of working with a born-digital archive project.

Purdue University Libraries News:(Bert-Chapman) New Dean of Libraries Jim Mullins is working on proposals to transition Purdue's decentralized library system of 15 libraries into four interdisciplinary community libraries focusing on liberal arts, business/economics, health/life sciences, and physical science/engineering. More information will be provided as these plans develop and evolve. The Documents Department continues to make gradual progress in its retrospective cataloging initiatives from the mid-1970s to early 1990s. Significant progress has been made cataloging House and Senate Governmental Affairs/Reform Committee hearings and prints, House and Senate Judiciary Commitee hearings and prints, and some Justice Department publications.

A November 2004 analysis of Purdue's cataloged electronic resources revealed that just over 26% of them were government documents and this percentage is likely to increase in the years to come. Exhibits have been prepared for government documents on the federal judiciary, criminal justice, and education. Purdue Libraries have begun receiving Rand Corporation publications on standing order and also receive publications from the European Union's Institute for Security Studies. Bert Chapman's article "Initial Visions of Paradise: Antebellum U.S. Government Documents on the South Pacific" will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Government Information. The article is available "in press" for those libraries subscribing to Elsevier ejournals and focuses primarily on works produced bythe U.S. Exploring Expedition which lasted from 1838-1842.

Valparaiso University Law Library-(Sally Holterhoff) Sally Holterhoff has been elected Vice-President/President-Elect of the American Association of Law Libraries. Her term of office begins in July 2005 and she'll beome AALL President in July 2006. AALL has over 5,000 members and information about the association and its activities is available at www.aallnet.org/

National War College Student Papers-(Bert Chapman) In an earlier newsletter issue, I profiled student research papers produced at Air University. I now want to focus on these resources as produced at National Defense University's (NDU) National War College (NWC). Accessible here at the Digital Publications section of the NDU Library's website, are a wide variety of papers on numerous military and international security topics produced by U.S. military and civilian policymakers as well as foreign students at the National War College. Examples of recent papers include "Quiet Transformation: The Role of the Office of Net Assessment" (2003), "Indo-US Strategic Relations: From Estrangement to Engagement (2003), "George C. Marshall: The Forgotten Master Strategist (2003-2004?), "United States National Security Strategy: A Hamiltonian Solution for the Iranian Conundrum" (2004), and "So Far From God: The Need for Constructive Reengagement With Columbia" (2004). This NDU Library website provides access to NWC student papers from 1984-present.

Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) Industry Studies-(Bert Chapman)-The Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) is also part of NDU. ICAF's institutional purpose is preparing selected military officers and civilians for senior leadership and staff positions by conducting post-graduate research on national security strategy and resource component aspects of national power with emphasis on how acquisition and joint logistics are incorporated into national security strategy. As part of their coursework, ICAF students prepare annual studies of industries whose production covers national security components. These studies are accessible here from 2000-2003 with sample studies from 2003 covering advanced manufacturing, agribusiness, electronics, health care, munitions, strategic supply, transportation, and other topics. ICAF student papers from 1993-1999 are available here in the DIgital Publications secion of the NDU Library website. Examples of these papers include "Foreign Outsourcing of the U.S. Electronics Industry: (1993), "Building a Competitive Strategy for the United States Telecommunications and Information Systems Industry" (1995), "Sustaining the Intelligence Industrial Base: Issues and Alternatives" (1995), and "Air Transportation: Elements of a Chaning Environment and What It Means to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet" (1997).

Volume 10, #2 Spring/Summer 2004

June 11 Meeting Postponed-(Bob Hinton-IUPUI)The June 11 meeting featuring Superintendent of Documents Judy Russell has been postponed due to the the federal government being closed for President Reagan's funeral. An alternative date is being arranged. Note: This meeting was later rescheduled for and took place on July 23.

From the Chair: (Jackie Johnson-Indiana University Southeast): The rapidly changing world of government documents is of great interest to the library community. Nowhere was that more apparent than at the April Federal Depository Library Council meeting in St. Louis. This meeting drew far more attendees than usual. Even library directors showed up in record numbers! It reflected that we are living in a time of change (once again). We cannot expect that government information issuance will remain static while digital information and communications transform our world.

This brings me to my real issue, getting involved in your stadewide government publications organization. INDIGO is an active and dynamic group with interesting and committed people that can do a great deal for your professional development. Since many of its members wear many hats in their respective positions, that development may not be limited exclusively to government documents. This is the organization that I have received the most professional gratification from in my career.

We not only hold two informative meetings each year, we have ongoing projects in website development and revising the state documents plan. All this takes commitment from our organizations membership. This is where you come in. Looking at our list of office holders, I am gratified to see some new names. But there are also names that have been active in INDIGO since its inception; we even have one officer doubling up on commitments. While this is good for continuity, we need and want new people to carry the torch! (Hey, some of us aren't all that young anymore.) I know that you are busy, everyone is. So please become involved, attend meetings, and help plan the future of government publications and INDIGO. (Jackie Johnson)

The Indiana State Library: Indiana's Regional Federal Depository

After the Indiana state capitol was moved from Corydon to Indianapolis, legislative action was taken at the Indiana General Assembly's first session February 11, 1825 with an act approved for providing that books in the Indiana Secretary of State's office, together with such as might be added later, should constitute a state library. An 1831 act authorized the Indiana Secretary of State to purchase "two of Tanner's maps of the United States of the latest edition" to be preserved in the library. In 1832 he was authorized to purchase Gales and Seaton's Register of Debates in Congress. In 1833, he was authorized to purchase a full set of Niles Register.

The federal document Report on Designated Depository Libraries Showing Conditions on April 16, 1923 Under the Selective Plan First AUthorized by Public Act 171, 67th Congress with List of Designated Depository Libraries Revised to July 1, 1923 listed the Indiana State Library as a "nearly all" depository. The "nearly all" designated indicated that the Indiana State Library was selecting over 2/3 of GPO distributed publications. However, a handwritten note on p. 9 of the Indiana State Library's copy of this document states, "Ind was an 'all'" [category] (i.e. selecting everything distributed by GPO).

Ms. Nellie Coates, Chief, Indiana State Library Catalog Division, wrote in her 1949 Library Occurrent article "Indiana State Library--A Brief History" "The library was one of the earliest depository libraries for federal documents and makes every effort to secure additional documents not included in these shipments."

The 1962 Depository Library Act (PL 87-579) authorized creation of regional federal depositories. The Indiana State Library is one of 52 regional federal depositories, distributed roughly one per state. There are 1248 selective federal depositories with 32 being in Indiana. The regional depository receives all publications distributed through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) of the Government Printing Office (GPO) for permanent retention to ensure the comprehensiveness and integrity of a state or region's federal depository resources. Regional depositories serve as FDLP "field officers", backing up selective depositories by providing interlibrary loan and reference service to both depository and nondepository libraries in their state and providing advice and expertise on depository operations.

Selective depositories choose specific categories and publication titles in various formats that they wish to receive based on the needs of their local clientele and congressional district. A selective depository must retain selected publications for a minimum of 5 years, and then may dispose of those publications, subject to federal statutory requirements and disposal guidelines created by the regional depository.

In FY 2002, GPO distributed over 14,000 tangible federal documents in print, microfiche, and CD-ROM formats to the Indiana State Library. As of September 2002, every federal depository and anyone with Internet capability has access via the GPO Access website to more than 140,000 titles on GPO servers and over 91,000 additional titles through links to other federal agency websites. The GPO Access website provides use of over 2,400 databases through more than 80 applications.

Public access to federal information is a fundamental creed of American democratic ideals dating back to the founding fathers. In 1822, James Madison wrote to W.T. Barry, "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." This is the premise upon which libraries are rooted: that the public cannot politically function in an informed manner without information, and in particular, information conceived, published, and disseminated by the federal government. For more than 140 years GPO has kept America informed. The Indiana State Library whith its rich historical federal document collection and commitment as the regional federal depository joins GPO in keeping Indiana citizens informed. (Doug Conrads-Senior Subject Specialist for Serials Cataloging and Federal Documents Catalog, Indiana State Library)

Indiana LInks to Government Information-INDIGO now has its own domain name (inlinksgov.org) and Web Site-Indiana Links to Government Information, a guide to local, state, federal, and international government information (www.inlinksgov.org/). This website's goal is using INDIGO members expertise to develop value-added, enhanced guides to government information useful to Indiana citizens. The site will also link to contact information at Indiana's depository libraries so that anyone can reach a person who can help them locate the government information they need. The page is now available, but needs volunteers to provide content behind the gateway we have created. There is need for pages on a variety of subjects. We especially need someone to work on a page for Indiana Government and Indiana Local Government. Pages created for Indiana Links to Government Information must be housed on your own server and must be maintained and kept current by the creator. If you have developed a page for the website, just send me the URL and I will add the link to the Web gateway page. For further information about adding website content contact Cheryl Truesdell (truesdel@ipfw.edu) or call (260) 481-6506 (Cheryl Truesdell)

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