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Against the Grain Volume 29 | Issue 6 Article 1 December 2017 If Rumors Were Horses Katina Strauch Against the Grain, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Strauch, Katina (2017) "If Rumors Were Horses," Against the Grain: Vol. 29: Iss. 6, Article 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/2380-176X.7865 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact [email protected] for additional information. c/o Katina Strauch Post Office Box 799 Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482 ALA MIDWINTER ISSUE TM VOLUME 29, NUMBER 6 DECEMBER 2017 - JANUARY 2018 ISSN: 1043-2094 “Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians” Ensuring Access to Government Information by Shari Laster (Head, Open Stack Collections, Arizona State University) <[email protected]> and Lynda Kellam (Social Science Data Librarian, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) <[email protected]> n the United States, the dominant paradigm collect, describe, and preserve federal govern- that connect a specialized group of publishers of research libraries as content managers ment information in print and digital formats, — government agencies — with libraries as Ifor print government documents and access much of it in partnership with the U.S. Gov- content stewards. Libraries are collaborating portals for digital government information ernment Publishing Office (GPO) and other with partners to explore new methods and ap- and data took a substantial turn in late government agencies, received renewed proaches to solving a persistent problem: how 2016. With the change in Presidential attention, even as new energy poured can we ensure that government information administration, academics, journalists, into experimental and transformative will be freely available to the public for the and other constituencies whose work models for capturing digital content at foreseeable future? relies on uninterrupted access to federal risk for loss from trusted public sources. The Federal Depository Library Pro- information expressed concern about News outlets featured and valorized gram (FDLP) continues important work that the specter of political threats to the work of library and information is now over two centuries old. Implemented data and information produced professionals in safeguarding the by the GPO, the FDLP serves as a model of and disseminated with public public’s right to know, even as li- distributed access to print federal documents, funding. In particular, public braries and public advocacy groups one that has resulted in de facto preservation. access to climate and environ- scrambled to organize hundreds of Participating libraries agree to accept copies mental data was suddenly seen enthusiastic volunteers eager to of information dissemination products, and in as fragile and vulnerable. save government information. exchange make them freely available to the The response over the past This issue of Against the Grain public for as long as the materials are in their year has been, frankly, remark- is an attempt to capture the net- continued on page 8 able. Longstanding library work to work of projects and relationships What To Look For In This Issue: If Rumors Were Horses Social Media in Education, Healthcare, and Marketing...............45 EMINDER!!!!! We have moved. Our Citadel mail will NOT BE FORWARDED The Charlotte Initiative E-Book TO US ANYMORE! Yesterday, I got three renewals from companies that should Symposium ........................................51 Rhave used the new address! They know about it. If you use the wrong address in the Time: Your Best Friend or Your Worst future, your mail will probably be returned to you or trashed! THE NEW ADDRESS IS Enemy ................................................69 PO BOX 799, 1712 Thompson Avenue, Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482! Thanks, everybody! Agile Management of Electronic And HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Resources: A Charleston Conference We are starting 2018 with some column editor changes! Listen up! Presentation .......................................71 Tom Gilson our long time editor of From the Interviews Reference Desk has decided to give it up and devote more time to ATG, the Charleston Con- Jon Cawthorne ..................................52 ference and ATGMedia our new venture. Tom Profiles Encouraged began and edited this column for 20 years! Thank Up and Comer Profiles ......................79 you, Tom, for your many reviews! People Profiles ...................................90 Just off the phone with Nicolette Warisse So- Company Profiles ..............................92 sulski of the Portage Public Library who will take over From the Reference Desk beginning in April. Library Profiles .................................93 What a delightful conversation we had! Nicolette Plus more .............................. See inside is from Louisville (can’t say it the way she does)! She is the Business and Reference Librarian at Joyce Dixon Fyle and her posse during Portage District Library in Michigan, as well as the DineArounds at the 2017 Charleston Conference! continued on page 6 1043-2094(201712/201801)29:6;1-E From Your (enough! Snow!) Editor: t has been cold as you-know-where here in is. There are articles about fugitive docu- to keep us in the Charleston! I have been saying that I will ments, the issue of state document collecting, know! Inever ever complain about the heat down ASERL’s plan for managing a collaborative Our interview here again. (Well, maybe.) All of the offices federal depository collection, the HathiTrust this time is with and bedrooms had to be closed up to trap the federal documents program, the University of Jon Cawthorne, heat inside. I admit that we are wimps. Usu- California documents program, the data rescue Dean of the Uni- ally the thermometer doesn’t go as low as 30 program in Canada, the data mirror project, versity Library degrees fahrenheit and when it dips to 20 we preservation of electronic information. Did System, Wayne don’t like it at all. But it has been 20 only for you ever think about what happens to Presiden- State University at least two straight weeks! Boo! tial documents when Presidents change? One who David Parker (ASP) discovered in his However, despite blizzard et al, Lynda Kel- of the papers is about that. I didn’t think about series of articles for ATG on consolidation (on lam and Shari Laster have done a masterful that, but thank heavens there are government the ATG NewsChannel and in earlier print job on this issue covering Ensuring Access documents librarians who care about such editions). The Op Ed is by Adam Blackwell for Government Information. As we all things! I am very impressed about fake news and Jim O’Donnell seems know, this is a frequently neglect- by all the work that goes into to be taming a rattlesnake as well making the ed area of librarianship being a documents librarian. print collection discoverable, Becky Lenzini for several reasons Thank Lynda and Shari reports on the Charlotte Initiative and the but what a ground- and their group of authors awesome work being done on the future of breaking issue this who have done their best eBooks. Regina Gong arranges many book reviews as do Donna Jacobs, Anne Doherty, and John Riley. I am especially excited to share our UP AND COMERS profiles! Leah and Tom and Erin are scheduling podcasts with them Letters to the Editor even as I write. Send letters to <[email protected]>, phone or fax 843-723-3536, or snail mail: As always Bill Hannay lets us in on an im- Against the Grain, Post Office Box 799, Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482. You can also send portant issue — facing up to facebook, Mark a letter to the editor from the ATG Homepage at http://www.against-the-grain.com. Herring wants to save the Internet. Lolly Gasaway has questions and answers, Myer Kutz tells us about the PROSE awards, Bob Holley about peer review, and there are articles Dear Editor: Dear Editor: on agile management of electronic resources, Letter Addressed to Katina and Leah. Letter Addressed to Santa. collaboration across library units, managing time, library analytics, and much, much more! A huge thank you for all the assistance in We respectfully request that you keep the attending the 2017 Charleston Conference! I snow up in the North Pole where it belongs! Wait! They are calling for snow tomorrow had a wonderful Conference ex- We down here don’t have the equipment or the — again? NO! Where is summer? perience — learning new things expertise to deal with deep snowfalls or way Happy New Year! Yr. Ed. and meeting many new people. I below freezing temperatures. Thanks for hope to attend next year as well. understanding. It really was terrific. Thank you Cordially, again! We in the warmer regions. Sincerely, Rumors Nancy George from page 1 (Salem State University) a staff chat reference librarian for the public and academic queues for the QuestionPoint 24/7 Reference service. Her passion for AGAINST THE GRAIN DEADLINES reference revealed itself early at the iSchool at the University of Washington, where she VOLUME 30 — 2018-2019 received her MLIS, having taken nine reference courses in pursuit of her degree. In 2011 Nico- 2018 Events Issue Ad Reservation Camera-Ready lette was awarded the Gale Cengage Award Annual Report, PLA February 2018 01/04/18 01/18/18 for Excellence in Business Librarianship. Nicolette is actively involved in RUSA, and MLA, SLA, Book Expo April 2018 02/15/18 03/08/18 has served on several committees, including ALA Annual June 2018 04/05/18 04/26/18 the Dartmouth Medal Committee. She is on the editorial board for RUSQ where she also Reference Publishing September 2018 06/14/18 07/05/18 co-edits a column, “A Reference for That” with Charleston Conference November 2018 08/16/18 09/06/18 Dave Tyckoson. She writes a column, “Real ALA Midwinter Dec.