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Wednesday, 5th April 2006

GPO Issues RFP for Future Digital System; ALA's State of American Libraries 2006 Report Released

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Libraries--United States
Source: American Library Association
Just Released: State of America's Libraries 2006
From Introduction: "While you can still borrow books, today's libraries are resource and community centers, widely used and enthusiastically supported by a growing proportion of Americans. In a survey conducted early this year, 36 percent of Americans put the benefits of libraries at the top of the public services list, a six-percentage point increase from 2002."
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Government Printing Office--United States
U.S. Government--Databases
Source: GPO
GPO Issues RFP for Future Digital System
The GPO has published an RFP, "for the Master Integrator of the Future Digital System, also referred to as FDsys. The launch of the RFP marks a major point in GPO's timetable to create a new content management system that will provide permanent public access to all Federal Government information." The full text of the RFP is available here (520 pages; PDF). Additional background about FDsys here.
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Digital Archiving
Digital Records

Source: UKOLN
Presentation: Digital Archiving or Digital Archaeology? Dealing with Digital Records
A presentation given last month by Maureen Pennock from the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies (LUCAS). Available in HTML or PowerPoint.
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Data Collection--Best Practices
Public Libraries--United Kingdom
Source: LISU
Recently Released, Best Practice in Data Collection
"Report of a benchmarking exercise for Leicestershire Library Services and Warwickshire Library and Information Service. This is an anonymised version of a report produced for a small group of county library authorities, looking at the relative cost of library services and library use indicators."

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