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Federal Depository Library Legal Requirements
Addresses the legal obligations of designated Federal depository libraries. fdlp-legal-reqs-jun2009.pdf
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Letter to Charles Schumer and Robert Brady re: support for a project that will digitize our nation’s historical public domain government works (May 4, 2009)
Letter from public interest organizations expressing support for holding a public proceeding on the future of the open Internet. ltjcp-5may09.pdf
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White Paper: Strategic Directions for the Federal Depository Library Program
White paper concerning the future of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). ARL argues that the FDLP strategic planning process should lead to a flexible, sustainable, reconfigured program that reflects...
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Future Directions for the Federal Depository Library Program
Discusses the need to identify a sustainable framework that will provide access to and preservation of government information in the years ahead. issue-brief-future-direction-fdlp-04dec08.pdf
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Re: Provisions within Title 44, United States Code, requiring modification in order to facilitate the sharing of resources and responsibilities, primarily the sharing of publication collections, among federal regional depository libraries.
Opinion concerning the sections of Title 44 of the United States Code that would require legislative modifications in order to allow for the sharing of resources and responsibilities among the...
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Memorandum re: Removal or Destruction of Federal Depository Library Documents (Mar. 13, 2002)
In October 2001, the U.S. Geological Survey requested that the Government Printing Office instruct Federal Depository Libraries that received a CD-ROM on characteristics of large surface-water supplies in the United...
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Letter to Richard G. Davis re: GPO Summary Report: Digitization Demonstration Project (Nov. 2, 2007)
These comments on the GPO Summary Report: Digitization Demonstration Project are submitted on behalf of the Association of Research Libraries to commend the GPO for engaging in the pilot digitization...
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Letter to Richard G. Davis and Cynthia Etkin re: support for the draft Guidelines, Establishing Shared Regional Depository Libraries (Jun. 5, 2007)
Letter from ARL in support of the addition of $2 million in the FY 2008 Senate, State, Foreign Operations and Related Program appropriations bill. ltgpo-rreg-05jun07.pdf
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Presentation for ARL Directors on the Survey of ARL Depository Libraries: The Likert Scale
This survey was sent to all ARL Selective Depository Libraries and to all Regional Depository Libraries (the majority of which are also ARL Libraries). It was designed to enable ARL...