Paper on FLDP Changes
James A. Jacobs, James R. Jacobs, and Shinjoung Yeo, librarians at UC San Diego, have written an article for the May 2005 of Journal of Academic Librarianship about the upcoming changes to the Federal Library Depository Program (FLDP). These proposed changes include the elimination of print distribution of all but essential titles (as determined by the Government Printing Office) to be replaced by electronic document distribution, and a digitization project of legacy collections.
The authors have made available the article preprint. The abstract of the article:
Rapid technological change has caused some to question the need for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). We argue that the traditional roles of FDLP libraries in selecting, acquiring, organizing, preserving, and providing access to and services for government information are more important than ever in the digital age.