GPO OFFICIALS PUT BRAKES ON FDLP OVERHAUL

摘要

The Government Printing Office (GPO) has rejected a proposed multistate arrangement that would have allowed the University of Minnesota libraries (UMN) to act as the regional federal depository library for the 43 selective depository libraries in Michigan. The GPO has also rejected a multistate proposal that would have reshaped how the Federal Depository Library Program (FOLP) is managed in ten Southeastern states. The comments have drawn criticism from several organizations involved with the FDLP, including library officials in Michigan and Minnesota (who say that the decision rests with their U.S. Senators, not the GPO), the Association of Research Libraries (which called the determinations "troubling"), the heads of the seven multistate regional systems that already exist, the 38 members of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), 31 of the 47 regional coordinators at federal regional depository libraries, the Greater Western Library Alliance, and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.