scholarly journals Librarians’ Elections and Voting Toolkit

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Azalea Ebbay ◽  
Shelly Guerrero ◽  
Megan Hamlin-Black ◽  
Leslie Purdie
Keyword(s):  
Round Table ◽  
American Library Association ◽  
Marketing Plan ◽  
Emerging Leaders ◽  
Design Recommendations ◽  
American Library ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Team Project ◽  
The Government

The American Library Association Emerging Leaders Program provides the opportunity for new library professionals from across the country to collaborate on team projects and find solutions to issues within the profession. In 2019 the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) proposed an Emerging Leaders Team (EL Team) project that centered around the GODORT Education Committee’s prototype toolkit for librarians to help them answer voting and elections reference questions. The goals of the project involved developing design recommendations, a marketing plan, and implementation recommendations. The project took place between January to June 2019.

scholarly journals From the Chair: State of the Round Table

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Shari Laster
Keyword(s):  
Round Table ◽  
American Library Association ◽  
American Library ◽  
Current State ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
The Government

As the 2017/2018 chair of the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, I want to update GODORT members and friends on the current state of our organization.

scholarly journals From the Chair: My Chicago

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Sarah Erekson
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
American Library Association ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Monday Morning ◽  
Government Information ◽  
American Library ◽  
Saturday Night ◽  
Mayoral Election ◽  
The Government

I’m so excited that the Annual Conference this year is in my hometown. As a passionate steward of government information in Chicago, here are a few highlights of my city and my collection.The last time the American Library Association conference was in Chicago was the Midwinter Meetings held in February 2015, when attendees got a taste of Chicago’s winter. Between Saturday night and Monday morning, more than nineteen inches of snow fell as librarians settled into hotel rooms and bars from Streeterville to McCormick Place.1 In winters past, such storms have at times been politically significant. After the Blizzard of 1979, Jane Byrne won the mayoral election in an unprecedented upset. Chicagoans had re-elected the incumbent mayor in the five previous elections (Richard J. Daley served from 1955 to 1976). Michael Bilandic’s term as mayor could have been the start to another dynasty, if not for the snow. You could take Whet Moser’s word for it, in “Snowpocalyspe Then: How the Blizzard of 1979 Cost the Election for Michael Bilandic.”Or you could use the government information expertise and collections of the Chicago Public Library.

scholarly journals From the Chair: Working for GODORT in “The City that Works”

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Sarah Erekson
Keyword(s):  
Round Table ◽  
American Library ◽  
The Past ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Virtual Meeting ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Exciting Time ◽  
The City

It is an exciting time to be part of the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table. We are marking some milestone changes this year: moving to an electronically published journal and implementing a GODORT subscription to virtual meeting software. Some of these changes have been a long time in coming—many GODORT groups met virtually via teleconferences and collaboration software hosted through members’ institutions for years. Much of the work of GODORT in the past year has been to reassess our traditions. (I particularly liked the Fiddler on the Roof-themed column from the last “From the Chair”). But one tradition I still want to embrace is to use the first column of “From the Chair” to introduce myself and my vision for the 2016–17 term.

scholarly journals Preservation of Federal Government Publications in Multiple Formats Proposal

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
GODORT Preservation Working Group
Keyword(s):  
Round Table ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Digital Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
National Conversation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Library Program ◽  
The Government

The GODORT Preservation Working Group urges the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) to promote a national conversation about the value of preserving historic Government publications in multiple formats in order to serve a diverse public and to publicize the need for Government publications librarians to help the public access those publications. GODORT should urge ALA to ask the US Congress to appropriate funds for preservation of Federal Depository Library Program government publications. This money should be used for direct support of depository libraries who want to preserve their paper and digital government publications.

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