Reports from the Depository Services Program
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Consulting and Audit Canada Report no. 572-0022
Position paper on the role of Canadian Government Publishing and the Depository Services Program.
December 17, 1999
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of Canadian Government Publishing (CGP) and the Depository Services Program (DSP) in the context of the evolving Canadian government technology and service environment. At present, both programs are at risk. They do not have sufficient financial support or recognition to enable them to play their full role in the emerging world of electronic government. This paper will look at ways the government can make the most of its investment in CGP and DSP. It will also examine ways these programs can reach their full potential and help the government build connections to Canadians.
Gateways to government information
Gateways to government information: the Depository Services Program and Canadian Government Publishing: an executive summary
December 17, 1999
IFLA presentation
Accessing Canadian federal information: a Depository Program for the twenty-first century ?
August 1999.
This paper was presented by Bruno Gnassi, Director of the Depository Services Program to the 65th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Council and General Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, August 20-August 28, 1999.
Government Documents Reference Service in Canada
Government documents reference service in Canada: implications for electronic access
March 1999.
For this investigation, a set of government documents related questions was developed and tested for use in an unobtrusive evaluation of full and selective depositories in academic and public libraries located across the five geographic and socio-cultural regions of Canada. Results are based on the analysis of data collected by paid proxies who asked 15 questions a total of 488 times at 104 libraries in some 30 metropolitan areas as defined by Statistics Canada.
The study reported here was funded by the Depository Services Program (DSP), Public Works and Government Services, Canada, and undertaken by researchers in the Program of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario.
The Monty Report
Proposal for a revised Model Depository System.
June 1998.
This report proposes a new structural model for the Depository Services Network. This model is based around Canada's Census Divisions and attempts to take into account the requirements of population density and the impact of new information technologie s. It posits a three tiered structure of Resource, Regional and Local Depository Libraries. In addition, the report sets out new criteria for depository status. (This report concerns only Canadian institutions and does not address foreign institutions, exchange agreements or other types of depositories in the program.)
The Dolan-Vaughn Report
Electronic Access to Canadian Federal Government Information: How Prepared are the Depository Libraries?
August 1997.
Canada's Depository Services Program (DSP) has been operating for seventy years providing a vital link between Canadian citizens and their federal government through the free distribution of official publications to full and selective depository libraries. The recent rapid expansion of electronic publication and dissemination of federal government information in Canada has led the DSP to fund the first extensive examination of the state of readiness of depository libraries to adopt the new technologies. In the fall of 1996 researchers at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario undertook a project to investigate the technological capabilities and related services required by depository libraries to provide permanent public access to Canadian federal government information in electronic form. This report provides the findings of their investigation.
Partners In Access
Report of the Task Group on Depository Program Review
July 1990.
The Task Group on Depository Program Review was established by the Canadian Government Publishing Centre in November of 1988 to evaluate the Depository Services Program (DSP), identify problems, define possible solutions and determine the best structure for carrying the program into the next decade cost-effectively and efficiently.
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