GODORT 2025 Midwinter Meetings

Legislation Committee

January 15, 2025 | 11:00 am PST/ 12:00 pm MST / 1:00 pm CST / 2:00 pm EST

The Legislation Committee:

• identifies issues requiring legislative action;
• prepares or advises on resolutions for the membership, Steering Committee, task forces and committees;
• assists the ALA Washington Office on issues affecting federal government legislation; and
• assists and coordinates legislative action with other ALA bodies.

Agenda

• Approval of Minutes: June 13, 2024 Annual Meeting https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rk9XnqIQea56hvI-M6leSo8rR5Rdlrowy-DqS2jbo2E/edit?usp=sharing

• Old Business

  • FDLP Advocacy Plan Language–Steering Committee Discussion

  • Advocacy Tool Kit pages–Discussion with Education Committee Chair

  • Voting & Elections Toolkit Advocacy Page

  • ALA Advocacy Resources

• New Business

  • ALA Resolution in Recognition of Maryellen Trautman–Request by community member–lead author needed

• Liaison Updates

  • Education Committee

  • ALA Committee on Legislation

• Open Discussion

• Next Meeting

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Cataloging Committee

January 15, 2025 | 12:00 pm PST/ 1:00 pm MST/ 2:00 pm CST / 3:00 pm EST

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:

1. Welcome
2. Approval of minutes from the November 6, 2024 meeting
3. Announcements/information updates/additional agenda items:
   1. Report from the CC:DA liaison
   2. Report from the Cataloging Toolboxes Working Group
4. Old Business
   1. Continued discussion of cataloging of federal government documents and committee activities 
      1. Review of form responses to-date
      2. MarcEdit training information and updating of the Toolboxes - next steps
5. New Business
6. Adjourn

Link to Meeting Recording