Withdrawal of Documents from GPO Information Dissemination Programs
Professional Reading Shelf
United States Government--Access to Information
Source: Government Printing Office
Revised Policy, Withdrawal of Documents from GPO Information Dissemination Programs
GPO Information Dissemination (ID) has issued a new ID policy, "Withdrawal of Federal Information Products from Information Dissemination Collection and Distribution Programs." The policy, ID 72, supersedes SOD 72 dated July, 22, 2002. The revised policy establishes conditions under which a document may be withdrawn, recalled, or restricted in access; it outlines GPO and publishing agency responsibilities. The new policy requires concurrence of the head of the publishing agency before any action is taken. It also requires notification of professional library associations in order to assure support for the actions being taken. The new policy is available at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/sod72_policy_rev.pdf
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Metadata
Source: RLG
Just Released, Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for RLG Cultural Materials
"This document is a complete overhaul of the initial guidelines (last updated September 2003)."
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Open Access
Source: The Washington Post NIH Revises Plan for Quick, Free Access to Study Results
"An ambitious proposal to make the results of federally funded medical research available to the public quickly and for free has been scaled back by the National Institutes of Health under pressure from scientific publishers, who argued that the plan would eat into their profits and harm the scientific enterprise they support."
-- Censorship--Public Libraries
Source: The Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS) Torrent of e-mails dismays library director
"The director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System said last week that national media attention thrust on him after a recent book ban isn't getting him down. In fact, Robert 'Bob' Willits said personal attacks he's received in the form of 400-plus e-mails have done little more than enlighten him about the hateful way in which some people communicate.... Willits started receiving the complaints last week, after news of the library system's decision to ban comedian Jon Stewart's 'America (The Book)' made national headlines. Within 48 hours of the story circulating, the library board of trustees lifted the ban, citing intense scrutiny from the outside community as a key reason."
-- Literature--Children
Source: AP American Library Association Gives Awards
From the article, "'Kira-Kira,'" by Cynthia Kadohata, received the 2005 John Newbery Award at the ALA's annual meeting at Boston on Monday. The award honors outstanding writing in a book for young people. A 15-member committee of librarians and children's literature experts selected "Kira-Kira," said committee head Susan Faust... Another committee gave the Randolph Caldecott Award for illustration to Kevin Henkes for "Kitten's First Full Moon," a book for children age 2 to 5 about a kitten who believes the moon is her bowl of milk."
See Also: Complete List of ALA Award Winners
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