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GODORT 2024 Annual Meetings

Meeting schedule and session descriptions for the GODORT 2024 Annual Meetings

Government Information for Children Committee | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT

Government Information for Children Committee

June 11, 2024 | 10:00am PDT / 11:00am MDT/ 12:00pm CDT/ 1:00pm EDT

The purpose of the Government Information for Children Committee is to:

  • Promote government information in order to engage K-12 students in learning about history, culture, science, and government through games and other interactive activities.
  • Assist teachers, school librarians, public librarians, academic librarians, parents, and the general public with locating teaching aids, lesson plans, and exciting tools to enhance students' learning.
  • Provide all populations with a collection of free government resources – designed for children – to advance their personal and professional needs.

 Agenda:

 

 

 

Steering Committee | 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT

Steering Committee

June 11, 2024 | 11:00 am PDT/ 12:00 pm MDT/ 1:00 CDT/ 2:00 pm EDT

Agenda:

Call to Order

Approval of Minutes 

Approval of Agenda

Announcements

PPM Update Approval

Committee Reports

Old Business

Task Force on Committee Size and Composition

New Business

Adjournment

International Documents Task Force | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDT

International Documents Task Force

June 11, 2024 | 12:00pm PDT / 1:00pm MDT / 2:00pm CDT / 3:00pm EDT

 

The International Documents Taskforce (IDTF) focuses attention on problems and concerns related to international and foreign national government information. The IDTF provides a forum for the discussion of ideas, problems, and news in the field; serves as a force for initiating and supporting programs to increase the accessibility and use of this information; and works to improve bibliographic control and collection development for these information resources.

Agenda:

1. Coordinator's Intro: One minute

2. World Bank: Two minutes

3. IMF: Two minutes

4. UN Library: Two minutes

5. UN Publications: Two minutes

6. Coherent Digital: Two minutes 

7. Mike McCaffrey and Jim Church (Core Competencies for International Document Librarians: What You Need to Learn): 40 minutes

8. Q & A for McCaffrey and Church: 5 minutes

Cataloging Committee | 3:00 - 4:00 pm CDT

Cataloging Committee

June 11, 2024 | 1:00 pm PDT/ 2:00 pm MDT/ 3:00 pm CDT / 4:00 pm EDT

GODORT's Cataloging Committee has four main purposes:

  1. To provide a forum for technical discussions on policies and practices for government document cataloging.
  2. To serve as an interface for information exchange between documents catalogers and documents users in government agencies, various types of libraries, and bibliographic networks.
  3. To comment upon matters which affect the cataloging of government documents and to raise such issues as appropriate.
  4. To serve as liaison with other groups within ALA and through GODORT, with Federal agencies, other library associations, and bibliographic networks.

Agenda: 

  • Fang Gao, Chief, Library Technical Services at GPO, will provide an update on GPO's cataloging and metadata activities. There will be time for Q&A.