ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES
                Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program
 
 
 
Vol. 18, no. 06 GP 3.16/3-2:18/06       April 15, 1997
 
FBIS CD-ROM Dissemination Policy Affects Depository Libraries
 
        All depository libraries that select the Foreign Broadcast
Information Service (FBIS) Publications Reports on CD-ROM (0856-A-11, PREX
7.10/3:) must be aware of and abide by the limitations on dissemination
imposed by the FBIS.  In late February, the FBIS provided the Library
Programs Service with its dissemination policy, as follows:
 
                "Federal depository libraries obtain copies of FBIS
CD-ROMs directly from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), starting
with CD-ROM 13 (July - September 1996).  FBIS will not send back issues of
CD-ROMs to Federal depository libraries dues to limited supplies on hand
for U.S. Government customers.
 
                Federal depository libraries may make the FBIS on CD-ROMs
available to the public for research.  They may do this only on a
stand-alone machine, and should not install it on a LAN.  Federal
depository libraries should also be advised that they may not legally
permit the public to print or download the information contained on the
For Official Use Only CD-ROM.  Any other use may result in a claim of
copyright or contract infringement from the original copyright holder(s).
Public customers should be referred to NTIS' World New Connection
Service."