INLS 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Federal Depository Library Program
27 Mar 2017
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Costs may be associated with this- some are already set aside, some must be justified by who they are requested from. Requester may not be asked to disclose why they are requesting the record. A custodian of the records must do all in their power to complete requests effectively an quickly. Exceptions: if inspection, examination, or copying would frustrate the purpose for which the record was created. Anything involved in public business counts under this. People it is requested from can prioritize or deprioritize completing the request. Government documents and the gpo: fdlp: federal depository library program, classification if different (not loc or dewey decimals. Organization: goes into catalogue, organized by topic, subdivided to label each: documents (in gpo, printed or otherwise): Budget (official may not be the same one posted online!) Different skills are needed here: davis library is the regional gpo library-it gets sent tangible, official documents for cataloguing, catalog of government publications: https://catalog. gpo. gov/f.
