Government Publications

Abstract

The Scholarly Communication Interest Group of the New England Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries sponsored a workshop titled “Partnering with Faculty: Scholarly Communication Conversations,” held on July 29, 2010, at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts. Partnering with EBSCO and the North American Serials Interest Group, Mississippi State University (MSU) Libraries hosted the ninth MidSouth eResource Symposium at MSU's Mitchell Memorial Library in Starkville, Mississippi, on Thursday, September 16, 2010. ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship was a two-day meeting at the Westin Times Square, New York City, September 27–28, 2010. Finally, published herein is a summary of the NISO Webinar “It's Only as Good as the Metadata: Improving OpenURL and Knowledge Base Quality,” held October 13, 2010.     

Publications and Information of the United States Government in an Electronic Age

Abstract

The OMB is making policy decisions regarding information that have far-reaching implications. Its directives instruct agencies to confine their dissemination activities to that information necessary for the transaction of the public business as stipulated in existing statutory law. These directives support a shift in the agencies' emphasis from publishing printed materials to making information available in electronic format. They also give the OMB license to proceed as it so desires.