ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 10, Number 27
April 5, 2001

In this issue:

[1] GAO Releases Study on "Electronic Dissemination of Government               
Publications"

[2] NCLIS Releases Volume 2 of "Comprehensive Assessment of Public 
Information Dissemination"

[1] GAO Releases Study on "Electronic Dissemination of Government               
Publications"
The anticipated study which Congress mandated last year was 
published on March 30th by GAO.  The report, entitled Electronic 
Dissemination of Government Publications, studies the impact of 
providing documents solely in electronic format and assesses the 
feasibility of transferring the Federal Depository Library program 
to the Library of Congress.  As part of GAO assessment of the 
depository library program, the GAO 1)Identified how such a 
transfer might be accomplished; 2)Identified measures that are 
necessary to ensure the success of such a transfer; 3) Identified 
when such a transfer might optimally occur; 4)Examined the 
functions, services and programs and administrative support of the 
Superintendent of Documents and; 5) Examined and Identified the 
costs, for both GPO and the Library of Congress.  The report is 
located at the following website: 
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01428.pdf 


[2] NCLIS Releases Volume 2 of "Comprehensive Assessment of Public 
Information Dissemination"
On March 27th, NCLIS released Volume 2 of their final report 
entitled "A Comprehensive Assessment of Public Information 
Dissemination."  The report includes legislative and regulatory 
proposals to reform the Federal Government's public information 
infrastructure. The report can be found at the following website: 
http://www.nclis.gov/govt/assess/assess.vol2.pdf

 

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