Administrative Notes 
Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program 
 
 
 
Vol. 19, no. 06	GP 3.16/3-2:19/06	April 15, 1998 
 
 
DEPOSITORY WEB SITE URL SURVEY COMING IN MAY

The Library Programs Service, in partnership with the American Library
Association Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) Federal Documents
Task Force, will conduct a Web survey in May to ask depository libraries
to supply the URL for their depository Web sites.

GPO's goal in conducting this survey is to enhance access to depository
libraries and their collections by the public and the depository
community.  Hot-linked URLs in the depository library directory will
enable anyone with access to the Web to navigate quickly to any
depository library's Web site.

ALL libraries are encouraged to respond to this Survey, even if to
answer that they do NOT have such a Web site.  The Survey will be
conducted during May, 1998.

LPS is interested in capturing ONLY those URLs that contain significant
information about the each library's depository services, i.e., a
documents department URL or a library Web site page with significant
depository-related information.  Do not include the high-level general
library Web page unless it is the one and only Web page with significant
depository information.

The following applications on GPO Access will include these URLs:

1. Locate Federal Depository Libraries by State or Area Code, at
<www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/adpos003.html>.

2. The Library Directory feature of the askLPS service (see related
article).  The Library Directory will include the official GPO directory
information (names, addresses, telephone numbers, etc.) of all Federal
depository libraries. 

The directory component will have two features, both of which will
include depository Web site URLs: 

a. A searchable database of depository libraries' directory information.

b. A feature allowing depositories to view their own directory records,
and to update them using their LPS-issued passwords.


The results of this survey will benefit the public and the FDLP
community.  Your cooperation is appreciated.

For further information, contact:

	Joe Paskoski
	Library Programs Service (SL)
	voice:	(202) 512-1698
	fax:	(202) 512-1432
	e-mail:	jpaskoski@gpo.gov