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Anonymous Patron shares "this story from GCN.com

Ed McCeney is on a mission. He wants records management to become a hot topic in the eyes of federal employees. Mostly, he sees their eyes glaze over at its mention...federal officials are beginning to recognize that it’s crucial to every aspect of government business. And he believes the technology exists to make records management a strength for federal agencies.

Anonymous Patron sends news of an article from Federal Computer Week.
"As more federal agencies publish government information on Web sites without notifying GPO, important documents that should be indexed, catalogued and preserved for public access in the Federal Depository Library Program have instead become 'fugitive' documents, according to GPO officials."

Daniel writes "For the past century, the Government Printing Office (GPO) has put out uncounted thousands of reports, papers, and journals on many fields of human endevour. Researchers "in the know", policy specialists and even genealogists have gone to depository libraries to get at this information.Now GPO is working with ARL and other institutions to digitize this vast "legacy collection" promising a revolution in access. According to Superintendent of Documents Judy Russell, "GPO is conducting a survey to develop a list of priority government documents titles or series that should be among the early items to be digitized. Please review the list of candidates for digitization that have already been proposed and add other titles that you feel should be on the list. This part of the survey will close on May 21, 2004."Please take a moment to take the survey at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legacy/priorities/ if any of your patrons have EVER found a government document useful. It's one way to help put more information at their fingertips. These days we need all the help we can get!"

Pete writes " The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that while recently under fire for how it handles public e-mails, Ozaukee County Wisconsin is now being praised by state open records advocates for its plan to develop an archive that would give public access to electronic documents.The archive's primary purpose, to store e-mails sent and received by county supervisors, is "an example of a local government trying to come up with a responsible solution to this problem" of making computer records more accessible, said Maureen McGlynn Flanagan, an assistant state attorney general."