Finding Aid for Subject File, 1973-2010 | The American Library Association Archives

Title: Subject File, 1973-2010

ID: 43/1/6

Primary Creator: Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)

Extent: 23.0 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date and alphabetically by subject title thereunder

Date Acquired: 11/22/1993. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Depository Libraries, Depository Library Council to The Public Printer, Documents Librarians, Documents to The People, Federal Documents Task force, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Government Documents Round Table (GODORT), Government Publications, State and Local Documents Task force

Languages: English

Subject files of Government Documents Round Table (GODORT), contains correspondence, minutes, news releases and reports from the GODORT Chair, Treasurer, Steering Committee, Depository Library Council to the Public Printer, Federal Documents Task Force, State and Local Documents Task Force, International Documents Task Force (1977-85), Machine Readable Government Information Task Force (1979-85), Awards Committee (1984-88), Cataloging Committee (1997-99), Education Committee (1995-97), Freedom of Information Committee (1981-85), Nominating Committee (1994-97), Notable Documents Committee (1981-86), Program Committee (1987-94), Publications Committee (1996-97), Rare and Endangered Government Documents Committee (1998-99), Statistics Information Group (1978-82), and the Lacy Commission on Freedom and Equality of Access to Information (1985-86), includes the acquisition, cataloging and organization of government documents, local, state and federal legislation, depository libraries, freedom of access to government information, U.S. Government Printing Office, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Documents to the People, GODORT budgets, conferences, publications, surveys, panel discussions, committees, task forces and work groups, policies and procedures manuals, and membership logs (1972-83), and papers of the Documents on Documents Project including Guides to the Collection (1973-95).

NOTE: The first folder in Boxes 16-18 contains a Guide which will be very helpful to understanding the organization of the Documents on Documents Collection, particularly in the Topics series.

NOTE: The Guide in Box 18 includes 1984-85 which will be helpful for Box 19. A copy is not included in Box 19.

The Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) was established in 1972 (1). It replaced the Social Responsibilities Round Table's Task Force on Government Publications (2). GODORT has four purposes:

1. To provide a forum for discussion of problems, concerns, and for the exchange of ideas by librarians working with government publications;

2. To initiate and support programs that aim to increase the availability, bibliographic control, and use of government documents

3. To increase communications between document librarians and other librarians

4. To contribute to improving the education and training of document librarians (3).

GODORT is organized into task forces which allow members to participate in interest areas. Some task forces focus on specific types of documents such as state, local, federal, and international documents. Other task forces address document format or management such as education, machine-readable data files, microforms, and organization and administration (4).

Since 1972, GODORT has published a bimonthly newsletter entitled Documents to the People (DttP) (5). GODORT publishes lists of reference sources, a model syllabus for teaching state documents, recommendations for national micro-publishing standards, and a directory of government document librarians and collections (6).

GODORT has established two annula awards to recognize achievement in the are of government documents. The James Bennett Childs Award was created in 1975 to honor outstanding achievement in the field. The CIS/GODORT/ALA "Documents to the People" Award, established in 1976, grants $1,000 to the individual and/or library who most effectively encourages the use of federal documents (7). GODORT officers include a chairperson, assistant chairperson, and secretary (8).

Sub-Groups:

1-Steering Committee

3-Publications (Clearing House, DttP)

4-Treasurer

5-Public Documents Round Table

30-Administration and Organization

31-Federal Documents

32-International Documents

33-Microforms

34-Municipal Documents

35-State Documents

36-Liaison to State and Local Affiliates

Depository Libraries
Depository Library Council to The Public Printer
Documents Librarians
Documents to The People
Federal Documents Task force
Freedom of Information
Government Documents
Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)
Government Publications
State and Local Documents Task force

Repository: The American Library Association Archives

Accruals: 6/22/1995, 7/10/1995, 4/13/1997, 8/5/1999, 10/13/1995, 2/6/1996, 9/9/1999, 2/2/2000, 5/26/2000,12/22/2009, 8/6/2013, 11/30/2016

Other Note: 17 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/4301006a.pdf

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