Annual Report 2006

Submitted by Chair Ann W. Henriksson, Shepherd University

September 2006

Accomplishments

 

1. Spring Fling Program

Sponsored by the Children's Roundtable and the Government Documents Roundtable, Peggy Turnbull, Bluefield College, and Ann Henriksson, Shepherd University, presented "Smokey the Bear, Canine Heroes, and Ben's Birthday: Collection Development Issues for Web-based Reference Sources for Children." The well attended session covered the latest research on children's use of the Internet, criteria for evaluating free  sites, a review of recommended of sites, and a discussion of how to make the sites accessible either through the catalog or a webliography. The reviewed children's sites are available at: http://www.shepherd.edu/libweb/find/guides/kids_websites.html. ALA's Great Web Sites for Kids also contains sites and selection criteria at: http://www.ala.org/greatsites.

 

2. GODORT annual meeting

GODORT held its annual meeting at WVU's Wise Library in May. Christine Chang, WVU, and Majed Kader, Marshall U, reported on the Spring Depository Library Conference. Ann Henriksson and Peggy Turnbull reported on Spring Fling. Ann also discussed her attendance at ALA Legislative Day. Everyone was appreciative of WVLA's funding for the refreshments and lunch. As usual there was a lively discussion of current depository issues, especially GPO proposals for changing the distribution of documents and the ramifications of the move to almost all electronic documents.  Jim Rogers, Salem University, was elected incoming chair.

 

Upcoming Events

 

GODORT will have two programs at the fall 2006 conference: Marian Amour- Germmen, WVU, will present a session on trademarks entitled: "Trading Up: Helping Users Search U.S. Trademarks." Majed Kader, Marshall U, will present a session on coal resources entitled: "Coal and Coal Mining: Internet Resources for Public and School Libraries."

 

Farewells and Welcomes

 

Summer 2006 saw position changes for 2 long standing GODORT members. Peggy Turnbull has given up her document duties at Bluefield and is now concentrating on public services, serials, and archives. David Shau, Kanawha County Public Library, is now WV Librarian. Olivia Bravo has taken over David's document duties at Kanawha Public. Both Peggy and David will be sorely missed by all WV documents librarians. Over the years they have made significant contributions to WVLA GODORT and to WVLA conference programs. We will miss their enthusiasm, their thoughtful insights, and their creativity in promoting document use.  At the same time we welcome Olivia into the WV GODORT community.