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At the June 2002 CENDI meeting, Ms. McGarr discussed the six major ongoing activities at the National Library of Education. The major activities include the ED Reference Center, ERIC, the ED Pubs Program, the U.S. Network for Education Information, the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, and the National Educational Network. The NLE library staff will be moving, although the library will remain in the same building. NLE's program fund is one million dollars with individual activities having their own funding. Ms. McGarr ended by expressing her concern that the reauthorization of this program may not be passed.
At the April 2002 CENDI meeting, Ms. Frierson pointed out that the National Agricultural Library's budget has been static for the last six years, while the costs for acquiring journals has steadily increased. In an effort to bring electronic resources to the desktop of more than 100,000 USDA users worldwide, NAL embarked upon a consortium purchasing initiative. A trial was conducted and two consortium licenses were signed. NAL is currently seeking to identify funds for additional joint purchases, as well as how to provide more user support and training.
At the April 2002 CENDI meeting, Ms. Finch explained that the Agricultural Thesaurus has 17 high level categories and has been integrated into searching. The Thesaurus can be used to automatically search for a preferred term when the user enters a non-preferred term; or can be used to include narrower terms in a search; or can assist in resolving ambiguous terms. The thesaurus was funded by the Agricultural Research Service and is being investigated as a possible web service. It is currently used as a controlled vocabulary by AGNIC and is also used by National Program Staff at ARS for hierarchy and lead-in terms to enhance searching of their web site.
At the April 2002 CENDI meeting, Ms. Frangakis covered NAL's past and current activities involving the preservation of USDA digital materials. Major accomplishments to date include the development of a survey instrument to identify digital publications produced by USDA; a metadata conference for USDA staff to raise awareness and to educate staff to achieve buy in; and the development of draft digital preservation guidelines. Technical requirements for the long-term management of digital publications continue to be developed and funding continues to be a challenge for this effort. Ms. Frangakis closed by saying that the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model is being used and that they have successfully mapped their prototype to this model. Other standards and processes (MARC, Dublin Core, and CORC) have been incorporated as well.
At the April 2002 CENDI meeting, Ms. Davids provided a brief overview of the metadata template being used at NAL. It is used for documents created by NAL staff and for materials that are digitized from print for preservation purposes. Elements of the template include preservation, content stability, and support access. NAL is using Handles in the prototype system. XML will be included in the final system.
At the CENDI meeting on April 15, 2003 at the USGS, Mr. Martin discussed the mission of the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an independent federal agency, created in 1996. The goal of IMLS is to build capacity, support core services, encourage excellence, and foster collaboration among the nation's libraries and museums. IMLS is the primary source for federal grants for U.S. libraries and museums with a budget of over $200 million. Several core programs and their objectives were discussed in detail. IMLS is one of the agencies charged to assist the OMB Administrator in developing online tutorials to explain how to access government information online. Other initiatives include the reauthorization of Head Start, working on how to build museums and libraries into the structure, and participating in discussions of who should be the representatives to UNESCO.
Homepage for the Federal Library and Information Center Committee and the Federal Library Information Network which highlights the issues of importance to the federal library community including copyright, intellectual property, Americans with Disabilities access, and personnel issues such as the job descriptions for federal librarians. Includes white papers, pointers to other sites, calendars and agenda for upcoming meetings and training sessions.
The Office of Information Services at NIST, which supports the research activities of the NIST community, is described. The strategic plan is outlined, which calls for OIS to re-invent itself. Changes, including the introduction of a First Point of Contact Desk, are described.
Gateway to the independent USA Federal agency that helps preserve USA's history by overseeing the management of all USA Federal records. Links are available to grants, employment, internships and volunteering opportunities.
Minutes from a presentation by George Roncaglia, NASA Langley Research Center at the CENDI meeting on February 2, 1999. Mr. Roncaglia discussed changes at NASA in the context of dwindling resources in a volatile environment. NASA 's products and services are dependent on partnerships with the NASA Centers and other organizations. He provided a brief explanation about the NASA Image Exchange System (NIX), a distributed photographic archive that has over 500,000 photographs, along with video and audio clips.
Minutes from a presentation by Melanie Gardner (AgNIC Coordinator) and Dr. John Kane (Computer Scientist, NAL) at the CENDI meeting on December 6, 2000. Ms. Gardner discussed the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC), a system which acts as a portal for quality agricultural information on the Internet. AgNIC is comprised of 38 distributed partners. The presentation discussed the history of AgNIC, the responsibilities of the partners, and the standards that are used to support interoperability.
This website provides directory based access to a wide variety of science reports and findings as collected and offered by government databases and websites.
At the September 7-8, 2005, CENDI meeting Ms. Humphreys outlined the development of the PubChem web resource. Amongst the issues addressed were securing permission from private publishers, and preserving journal formats in documents through the use of XML. In addition, matters of preservation were discussed, notably the assessment that PDF may be troublesome.
At the September 7-8, 2005, CENDI meeting, Dr. Fryberger discussed the emergence of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which advises the President. Dr. Fryberger outlined many of the projects that OSTP is working on and the need for greater collaboration.
At the August 11-12, 2004, CENDI meeting, Ms. Frierson and Mr. Lahr discussed the status of Science.gov. In addition, they outlined future goals of the web portal and made a request for more partnerships in order to enhance the portal's offerings.
At the August 11-12, 2004, CENDI meeting, Ms. Carroll discussed how the E-government bill will affect Agency STI Management, and how proposed guidelines will influence existing CENDI sites. It is determined that there is not yet enough information to predict how CENDI will be affected.
This draft report covers the development and status of the GPO's depository selection guidelines.
This draft report outlines the issues the GPO faces in converting to a primarily electronc depository and how best to implement this.
This draft report outlines the GPO's efforts to improve and modernize their delivery of printed documents to libraries.
This draft report outlines the GPOs strategy for implementing version control under its future Digital Content System
This draft report discusses the GPO's efforts to establish an authentication system for government documents.
This revised report covers the history of the GPO's depository practices as well a summary of the current status. This revision is the result of feedback received in reaction to the draft of the same title.
This revised report outlines the GPO's strategies for addressing the need to update its holdings to be primarily electronic. This report is a revision of an earlier draft after receiving external feedback.
This revised report outlines the GPO's strategy for improving their selection and dissemination of print materials. This revision is the result of external feedback on the previous draft.
This report covers NARA's guidelines for preserving a wide range of formats digitally.
This paper outlines the challenges that the GPO and Federal Depository Library Program faces due to sweeping changes in information technology. The paper also outlines some basic suggestions and is intended to generate discussion on these topics
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