GODORT Friday Chats: GODORT Friday Chats

Upcoming Chats (2024-2025):

All are at 1pm EST, noon CST, 11am MST, 10am PST

• RESCHEDULED for August 23, 2024 (due Zoom technical issues on August 2) - Welcome back to a new year! Share your institution's upcoming event plans! Welcome Back Student Fairs, Constitution Day, National Voter Registration Day, Library Card Sign Up Month, Banned Books Week, FDLP Anniversaries, Election Day, International Games Month, etc. Enjoy discussion on what Gov Info related programming you have in the works for this Fall!
• September 6, 2024 - End of 2024 Term Web Crawl and Archive - James R. Jacobs, Stanford University and Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress - https://eotarchive.org/. The End of Term Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. The EOT has preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 and is currently accepting URL nominations from the EOT 2024 Web Archive. Members of the project from Stanford University and the Library of Congress will speak about the history of the project and how it came about , the nomination and archiving process and timeline, and how researchers can use archived federal.gov data from the archive. Come learn how to get involved in preserving the .gov domain!
  • End of 2024 Term Web Crawl and Archive Presentation SLIDES at: https://tinyurl.com/ajrsyzrh 
• October 4, 2024 - LOCKSS USDOCS and the Digital FDLP program - https://lockss-usdocs.standford.edu - Snowden Becker, James R. Jacobs, and Mary-Ellen Petrich, Stanford University
  • LOCKSS USDOCS and the Digital FDLP program Presentation SLIDES at: https://tinyurl.com/4263n2y6 
• November 1, 2024 - GODORT Preservation Grant opportunity - Shari Laster, GODORT Development Committee Chair, Arizona State University
• December 6, 2024 - "Government Information in Evidence Synthesis: Challenges & Opportunities" - Elizabeth Sanders, Lamar University, presentation of her GODORT Chairs Program from ALA Annual June 2024
  • Government Information in Evidence Synthesis: Challenges & Opportunities SLIDES at: https://tinyurl.com/bdynnsud
• January 3, 2025 - LibLearn X Discussions - Sharing tips and tricks for dining, accommodations, travel, touring, etc. while in Phoenix, AZ from January 24 - 27, 2025 - https://2025.alaliblearnx.org/ 
• February 7, 2025 - Discussion on practical ways we are addressing Federal government information websites disappearing during an Executive transition. Sharing LibGuides such as UC San Diego U.S. Government Information which includes "Weekly Roundup" and "Trump Trackers", the 2025 Presidential Transition, and resources like the End of 2024 Term Crawl Web Crawl and Archive https://eotarchive.org/.  Bring your suggestions and tools for sharing government data. Facilitators for the discussion will be Jenny Groome, and Christine Fletcher, Mississippi State University Libraries

• March 7, 2025 - Checking in with Library Communities and Impact to Cataloging Operations without CRDP and Marcive. Ted Schwitnzer, Senior Library Services Coordinator for the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and Angela Bonnell, Head of Government Information and Maps at Illinois State University’s Milner Library, will present "Creating a Consortial Electronic Government Documents Collection" and will talk about the Illinois consortium’s United States Government Documents collection in CARLI’s Network Zone. Records for this collection are supplied via OCLC’s U.S. Government Documents – Electronic collection in WorldShare for electronic format records. CARLI Participating Libraries  Bring your examples of how you are adjusting to new workflows to add to our discussions!

  • Creating a Consortial Electronic Government Documents Collection SLIDES at: https://tinyurl.com/33mztfbe 

• April 4, 2025 - Introducing DiscoverGov, Government Publishing Office's (GPO) new web-based search tool - Catherine Bloom and David Isaak, GPO.
  • See DiscoverGov: A New Search Tool for Federal Government Information (March 19, 2025 FDLP Academy webinar) SLIDES and RECORDING
• May 2, 2025 - A Casual Chat about Favorite Government Publications - Do you have Favorite Government Publications and Web Sites that you rely on and would miss if they were no longer available? Learn about some favorite government information resources in local, state/province, federal, and international government agencies that you may not be aware of! Suggest your favorite documents from any agency - Send your comments, notice of broken links, ideas, and content to us! Volunteer to be a Guest Blogger! - Jenny Groome, and Christine Fletcher, Mississippi State University Libraries
• June 6, 2025 - ALA Annual Discussions - Find out about GODORT's Open Virtual Committee sessions June 9-13, and GODORT's sessions at ALA Annual in Philadelphia on Friday June 27 and Saturday June 28 - https://godort.libguides.com/2025godortannual . Can also share tips and tricks for dining, accommodations, travel, touring, etc. while in Philadelphia, PA from June 26 - 30, 2025 - https://2025.alaannual.org/

Past Chat Topics

Constitution Day planning & ideas (Government Information for Children Committee)
Civic Engagement & the US Midterm Elections (Education Committee and Julie Winkelstein, SRRT)
Weird & Wonderful Docs (Jenny Groome, Cass Hartnett)
Travelling disaster exhibit (Susanne Caro, Jen Kirk, Ben Chiewphasa)
Committee Updates
GODORT Emerging Leaders Introductions
Meet the ALA Presidential Candidates
Federal Information Interest Group

GODORT Legislative Committee meeting - Title 44 Changes
The Carpentries with Tim Dennis, UCLA
Mapping Prejudice with Ryan Mattke
Documents in the News
Civic Switchboard project

GODORT/ACRL Politics, Policy, and International Relations Section (PPIRS) Meet and Greet
Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Records
Teaching government information
Preserving Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Update

Not Just in English: The how, who, what, where, and why of government documents in other languages. 

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Soldier Shows and Blueprint Specials

Social Responsibilities Round Table Update

1950 Census 

All Digital Depository Task Force Discussion

End of Term Archive Update