THE DOCKET

Newsletter of the Documents Section of the North Carolina Library Association

• MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

• SPRING 2004 DOCUMENTS WORKSHOP

• PEOPLE, EVENTS & IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• NCSU LIBRARIES WIN MAJOR AWARD

• MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR

• NCLA DOCUMENTS SECTION EXECUTIVE BOARD 2004

FROM THE CHAIR
With this issue of The Docket we welcome our new editor, Mike Van Fossen. We very much appreciate Mike's willingness to step up this particular plate (in addition to serving as the Documents' section Webmeister), and we are most grateful for the years of dedicated service of outgoing editor, Marilyn Schuster. Thank you, both.

The year past year has been an active one for the section. The Spring 2003 Workshop at McKimmon, "Taking the Pulse: a Day of Updates," featured an update on copyright and a panel discussion on government documents in the online catalog. Special appearances by Superintendent of Documents Judy Russell and retiring regional depository librarian Ridley Kessler made this a particularly memorable day. In November 2003 we sponsored a well-received program at the NCLA Biennial Conference in Winston-Salem. Libraries & Information in the Age of Terrorism" featured CIA analyst and University of Maryland professor Lee S. Strickland. The slides from Mr. Strickland's are available from the section's web page at, http://www.unc.edu/~mvanfos/ncla/wk.html

Vice-Chair/Chair Elect Beth L. Rowe has planned a fine Spring Workshop, for May 7, 2004 at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh. New, more complicated rental requirements instituted by McKimmon this year made this a real challenge! Our thanks go to Beth for her perseverance through this. She is also hard at work planning our participation in the upcoming combined SELA/NCLA Conference from November 9-13, 2004 in Charlotte. This event will take the place of our Fall Workshop, so do plan to join us. More info will be forthcoming as this event develops.

What's in a name? More than you think. For some time we have discussed as a section the possibility of changing our section name to better reflect the nature of documents work in the current environment. Suggestions included "Government Information Section" (rejected largely because the acronym GIS might be easily confused with the Geographic Information Systems) and the "winner" - Government Resources Section. This suggested new moniker will brought before the NCLA Executive Board at their April 16 meeting in Wilmington. A final vote will be taken by our section as per our by-laws, at our annual meeting - the business meeting following the workshop in Charlotte in November.

For those who have not had an opportunity to see it, there is a good article by Dave Durant in the Spring 2004 (Vol. 62 No. 1) issue of North Carolina Libraries on the Federal Depository Library Program. http://www.nclaonline.org/NCL

Lastly, we will soon be approaching the membership for nominations to serve as officers of the section. A number of you have served -- some more than once! -- for which we are all most grateful. The documents community in North Carolina is relatively small, but the section plays an important role in the vitality of that community. If you can see your way clear to serving as an officer or wish to suggest a potential nominee, or if you would just like to find out more about serving, please let us know.

See you on May 7!

---- Bryna Coonin, Chair