SPRING FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARY COUNCIL MEETING TRANSCRIPTS TAMPA BAY, FL | APRIL 20 - 22, 2009 FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM EASY AS FDL | http://www.fdlp.gov 1 PLENARY SESSION: COUNCIL/GPO WELCOME AND UPDATE Monday April 20, 2009, 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m, Tampa, Florida TIM BYRNE: (Gavel) I don't actually get opportunities very often to use my gavel, but I will use it if I need to. I would like to welcome everyone this morning. I'm Tim Byrne, the Chair of Depository Library Council. I'm from the Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information. I'd like to welcome everyone this morning to the Spring 2009 Depository Library Council Meeting. It's known that these are some rough economic times for everyone, but especially for libraries. So I'm really glad to see all of you who have been able to come to this meeting. I think the first thing I'd like to do is have everyone at the front table, Council and GPO folks, introduce themselves, so let's start with David. DAVID CISMOWSKI: David Cismowski, California State Library. GWEN SINCLAIR: I'm Gwen Sinclair from the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library. CARLENE INGSTROM: Carlene Engstrom, Salish Kootenai College Library. JUSTIN OTTO: Good morning, everyone. I'm Justin Otto from Eastern Washington University. 2 JOHN SHULER: John Shuler, University of Illinois at Chicago. SUZANNE SEARS: Suzanne Sears, University of North Texas. KEN WIGGIN: Ken Wiggin, Connecticut State Library. BOB TAPELLA: Bob Tapella, Public Printer. RIC DAVIS: Ric Davis, acting superintendent of documents and director of library services. LAURIE HALL: Laurie Hall, GPO. ROBIN HAUN-MOHAMED: Robin Haun-Mohamed, GPO. TED PRIEBE: Ted Priebe in the corner, GPO. CINDY ETKIN: Cindy Etkin, GPO. DENISE DAVIS: Denise Davis, American Library Association. SALLY HOLTERHOFF: Sally Holterhoff, Valparaiso University Law Library. KATRINA STIERHOLZ: Katrina Stierholz, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. KATHY LAWHUN: And last but not least, Kathy Lawhun, San Francisco Public Library. TIM BYRNE: I have a few housekeeping things to get out of the way, first, before we get started. So first thing is to point out that in your detailed agenda, there is an error for Tuesday, April 21st. There's an error on the agenda that will be in the attendee books. Lunch on Tuesday is two 3 hours, from 12:00 to 2:00, and the sessions after lunch will start and finish 30 minutes later than are listed in the agenda. We have several groups that are getting together for meals here, so I'll mention Florida Librarians are going to meet at noon at the Spain Restaurant on the corner of Tampa Street and Madison. Go right on Tampa for two blocks. Sign up for the Law Librarians dinner -- Law Librarians and Friends dinner to be held tonight. The sign-up sheet is posted on the bulletin board. Please sign up before 2:30. Very important: When you are speaking, especially when you go to the microphone to speak, please, say your name and your institution. And that especially applies to Council members. The regional and selective lunches and the library-type lunches will have some post on the message board, also. If you have any questions, you can go to the registration desk. We will have breakfast foods tomorrow and Wednesday morning. We did introduce all the Council. We have two members of Council who are not able attend this morning. Victoria Trotta and Denise Stephens both had health problems with parents, and so I hope that we can all take a moment and send good thoughts to Victoria Trotta, whose father had a 4 heart attack on Thursday, and Denise Stephens, whose mother is having surgery tomorrow. This is the point where we traditionally do what we call "Council Aerobics," just to see who is here and who we are. So I'd like to ask everyone who is east of the Mississippi to stand. (Audience members stand.) TIM BYRNE: That looks like two thirds of the room. All right. West of the Mississippi? (Audience members stand; applause.) UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: About two thirds of the room. TIM BYRNE: If you come from an island somewhere. (Applause.) TIM BYRNE: Library types, let's see all the public librarians. (Audience members stand; applause.) TIM BYRNE: About five. (Audience members stand; applause.) TIM BYRNE: State Librarians. (Audience members stand; applause.) TIM BYRNE: Five again. Law and court librarians? (Audience members stand; applause.) TIM BYRNE: We got about ten of them. Oh, academic librarians. (Audience members stand; applause.) 5 TIM BYRNE: And most of the room stands, yes. Then anyone that considers themselves special, and I didn't mention? (Laughter; applause.) TIM BYRNE: We did issue an invitation to library directors to come to the meeting, and I'd just like to see how many library directors we have in the room this morning. (Audience members stand; applause.) UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Oh, wow. TIM BYRNE: About 20. Since we issued the invitation to library directors and some were not able to come, I wonder, how many people are here as stand-ins for their director? (Audience members stand; applause.) TIM BYRNE: So we know some of these people. We will watch them to see if they behave differently. (Laughter.) How many people here were depository librarians before 1995, when GPO introduced this plan for a transition to a more electronic depository program? (Audience members stand; applause.) TIM BYRNE: Just about 30, 35. These are the dinosaurs. (Laughter.) You new people, if you want to, talk to these people to find out what it was like when they received a lot of tangible materials. I see a lot of people talking today about trying to reduce the amount of processing 6 time that they have to do for depository materials. And I think back to the old days, and you don't understand. (Laughter.) One of the things we like to ask is funding, how you got here. How many people are fully funded by their libraries to come? (Audience members stand; applause.) TIM BYRNE: So looks like about 90 percent of the room. How many are partially funded? (Audience members stand; applause.) TIM BYRNE: How many are here on your own ticket? (Audience members stand; applause.) TIM BYRNE: About seven or eight, very good. We know that these are tough times, and so we're really appreciative of both the institutions that support your attendance, as well as those of you who pay your own way. All right. How many of you are tired of standing? (Laughter.) Well, in that case, I'll then go ahead and turn the mic over to the Public Printer, Bob Tapella. BOB TAPELLA: Thank you, Tim. Appreciate that. Can you all hear me? I hate those microphones. Well, Tim, thank you for the nice short introduction. (Laughter; applause.) Okay. You can clap. Well, Mr. Chairman, members of Council, friends, and colleagues, I am very pleased to be here in beautiful Tampa at 7 the Spring Depository Library Council Meeting. Now, I was down in Tampa this past January. I was actually in St. Pete's Beach on some other business, and we flew in and out of Tampa. So I made a little detour to the University of Tampa and the MacDonald Kelce Library. And I know Elizabeth Barron is here somewhere, Elizabeth, are you here? I saw you this morning. She's hiding almost in the back row. And she's the depository coordinator at the MacDonald-Kelce Library, and Marlyn Pethe -- who I don't think is here this morning -- she's actually covering the fact that Elizabeth is playing hooky at the library. Apparently, this is a busy time for them. The students -- what are they, in finals or just about there? We had a great visit, and they shared some -- a lot of time with me and some insights. And they also shared that they were pretty excited about having the DLC here. And I think as we saw with last night's reception, they have been very hospitable to us, and I think we owe them all a great thank you. So, Elizabeth, thank you. (Applause.) BOB TAPELLA: Now, I'm going to digress just a bit and perhaps go off script, which I know probably makes Ric and a few others out there nervous, but something interesting occurred. And that is GPO has a two-year leadership development program, and its participants rotate through 8 various locations throughout GPO, all our different business units. And there's required course work and classroom time, and, of course, there is required reading. Now, I'm not involved in the curriculum, but I have read or I'm in the process of reading all of the required books. I thought I ought to know what we're teaching. And one of them is called What Everybody Is Saying, an ExFBI Agent's Guide to Speed Reading People. Now, imagine my surprise when I was reading the acknowledgments on, what is that, Page 16. And it reads: "Others contributed in their own way to this project, and I must recognize them, individually." Now, this is Joe Navarro, the author. "My dear friend, Elizabeth Lee Barron, at the University of Tampa, is a Godsend when it comes to research." I thought that was pretty cool, and I think, you know, every now and then people actually do appreciate what all of you do each and every day in your jobs. And that's a good testament. Congratulations, Elizabeth. It actually is a pretty good book by the way.