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Mission Statement

The Documents Interest Group of Oregon (DIGOR), is dedicated to making government documents of all kinds more easily accessible and more useful to library staff and patrons. DIGOR promotes information sharing among people involved with, or interested in, government documents by sponsoring educational programs and giving documents folks an opportunity to meet and interact.

DIGOR's Next Business Meeting

The next DIGOR meeting will be held on Thursday April 17, 2008 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the 2008 Joint Conference of the Oregon and Washington Library Associations, to be held in Vancouver, Washington. Meeting location is Spruce Room, Hilton Hotel.

Agenda:
(Time- Agenda Item)

1 min Recorder for meeting (volunteer needed)
1 min 9-17-07 Minutes review/approval - Kate McGann (replaces Pamela Roberts, DIGOR Secretary)
3 min Treasurer’s Report - Kate McGann/Chair
8 FDLP Update – Arlene Weible
8 Training Committee – Tom Stave
20 DIGOR 2009-2010 Officer Election
§ Nominations
§ Vote
15 Announcements/Round Robin (time permitting)
4 Fall Meeting location/date

DIGOR Documents

Designation of FDLP Regional Collection Responsibilities

DIGOR Programs for 2008 OLA/WLA Conference

State Plan for Oregon - revised 1996

News

December 7, 2007: Government Information at PSU: An Active & Productive Year
Read this news article about activities at Portland State during the year.

December 3, 2007
An article in Saturday's Salem Statesman Journal highlighted the Centennial of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. Our own Jey Wann has a very nice photo in the article!

November 6, 2007: Proposal to Replace the FDLP Inspection Program

The opportunity to provide comments on GPO's proposal for replacing the FDLP Inspection Program is now open on the FDLP Desktop web site.
Basically, GPO is working to develop a program that would assess a depository libraries' ability to provide access to federal materials, rather than concentrating on rules for processing material. Assessments would look at the availability of information on library web sites about the FDLP program and look for any barriers to public access to both tangible and electronic federal resources. More ...

October 24, 2007: Report on the Fall Depository Library Conference by Arlene Weible

There was wonderfully warm fall weather in the Washington D.C. area during the Fall Federal Depository Library Conference held in Arlington VA this year. Despite the temptation to get out and sightsee, I managed to attend a number of interesting sessions at the conference. I’ll just mention the highlights below, but feel free to contact me if you would like to get any additional information about any of the sessions held at this year’s conference. More ...

October 2007: Oregon Documents Depository Program Centennial

The Oregon Documents Depository Program celebrates its centennial with an online exhibit at http://library.state.or.us/Centennial/. The Depository Program continues to provide paper documents to depository libraries, and now also archives born-digital Oregon documents. More ...