The Depository Library Council (Council) serves as an advisory committee to the Director, GPO and the Superintendent of Documents.
Over the years, Council has offered advice and recommendations on matters relating to the indexing, classification, cataloging, distribution, format, storage, utilization, and administration of depository material. Council also has advised the Director, GPO on information policy issues affecting depository libraries and the FDLP.
Council collaborates throughout the year on matters related to the FDLP. A meeting is held annually, typically in Washington, DC.
DLC Meeting Agendas & Minutes
- 2024
- Spring: Agenda / Minutes
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
DLC Recommendations
- Recommendations of the Depository Library Council to the GPO Director (May 24, 2024)
- GPO Response to Council’s Fall 2023 Recommendations (April 16, 2024)
- Recommendations and Commendation of the Depository Library Council to the GPO Director (November 6, 2023)
- GPO Responses to the Council's Recommendations Resulting from Their Spring 2023 Meeting (September 20, 2023)
- GPO Responses to the Council’s UCUP Working Group Recommendations (May 23, 2023)
- Recommendations and Commendations of the Depository Library Council to the GPO Director (May 17, 2023)
- GPO Response to the Council’s Fall 2022 Recommendation (March 14, 2023)
- Recommendation of the Depository Library Council to the GPO Director (December 5, 2022)
- GPO Responses to the Council's recommendations and commendation resulting from the spring 2022 DLC Virtual Meeting. (October 3, 2022)
- Spring 2022 DLC Recommendations to the GPO Director (August 19, 2022)
- Recommendation and Commendation of the Depository Library Council (Fall 2021), December 2021
- Letter from DLC Chair Alicia Kubas to GPO Director Halpern Regarding Recommendations (June 1, 2021)
Letters
- GPO Response to Council’s Letter Regarding Censorship (June 21, 2023)
- Letter from DLC Chair Lisa Pritchard to GPO Director Halpern Regarding Censorship (April 12, 2023)
- Congratulatory letter from DLC Chair Lisa Pritchard to newly appointed Superintendent of Documents Scott Matheson (October 12, 2022)
- Letter to the GPO Director Requesting Working Group Creation for Libraries Serving the Underserved, (December 2021)
Annual Reports
- Depository Library Council Annual Report, June 1, 2023 — May 31, 2024
- Depository Library Council Annual Report, June 1, 2022 — May 31, 2023
- Depository Library Council Annual Report, June 1, 2021 — May 31, 2022
DLC Comments
- Comments on the draft version of the National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information Strategic Plan for FY 2023 — FY 2027 (July 18, 2022)
DLC Reports to GPO
- Depository Library Council Final Report and Recommendations on Digital Deposit (August 2022)
- Collection and Discovery Services Open Forum: The CGP of the Future Lessons Learned from Depository Library Council’s Open Forum (August 2022)
- Collection and Discovery Services Open Forum: We Want to Hear from You: Lessons Learned from Depository Library Council’s Open Forum (August 2022)
DLC Working Groups
- Annual Subcommittee and Working Group Membership Rosters
- Collection and Discovery Services
- Collection and Discovery Services Subcommittee Charter (effective 09/01/2024)
- Collection and Discovery Services Subcommittee Charter (
effective 02/03/2023SUPERSEDED) - Collection and Discovery Services Open Forum: The CGP of the Future Lessons Learned, October 20, 2021 (April 5, 2022)
- Memo transmitting the fall 2021 open forum final report from the CDSWG Chair to DLC Chair (April 6, 2022)
- Final Report: Lessons Learned from Depository Library Council’s Open Forum, April 21, 2021 (March 21, 2022)
- Memo transmitting the spring 2021 open forum final report from the CDSWG Chair to DLC Chair (March 21, 2022)
- Digital Deposit (2018-2022)
- Final Report and Recommendations (March 24, 2022)
- Memo transmitting the final report from the Digital Deposit WG Chair to DLC Chair (March 24, 2022)
- Exploring the Durability of PURLs and Their Alternatives (2019 – 2023)
- Final Report of the PURL Working Group, Transmittal Letter, and Recommendations to the DLC (September 26, 2023)
- Recommended Principles for Persistent Identifiers and Persistent Identifier Systems for the Government Publishing Office (Recommendation to DLC, 05/02/2023)
- Working Group Charge (April 22, 2020)
- Long-term Implications for Federal Depository Libraries of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Statistics and Metrics Working Group
- Charter of the Statistics and Metrics Working Group (January 9, 2024)
- Unique Challenges, Underserved Populations, and Federal Depository Libraries
- Unique Challenges, Underserved Populations, and Federal Depository Libraries Subcommittee Charter (07/14/2023)
- Report and Recommendations of the Unique Challenges, Underserved Populations, and Federal Depository Libraries Working Group (March 31, 2023)
- Council Request for the Working Group (Memo from DLC Chair Stringfellow)
- Establishment and charge of the Working Group (Letter from Director Halpern)
History
The Depository Library Council to the Public Printer was established in 1972 and held its first meeting in February 1973. Its antecedents go back to 1963 when seven librarians were asked by the Public Printer to serve on an advisory committee on depository libraries. The original advisory committee was formed at the recommendation of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration during its consideration of revised legislation on depository libraries. While the particular focus and role of the council has adapted over time, its central purpose has remained constant—to advise the GPO Director and the Superintendent of Documents on matters relating to the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).
Members
The members of the Depository Library Council are appointed by the GPO Director to serve three-year terms. Members may be appointed for a second term.
Members represent a cross section of the various types of libraries in the Federal Depository Library Program. In order to meet this goal, at least half of the Council's members work in depository libraries and have experience providing services for Government information.
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Term: June 1, 2022 – May 31, 2025
Amy Laub (DLC Secretary) Regional Depository Librarian, University of Kentucky.
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Term: June 1, 2022 – May 31, 2025
Hayley Johnson Head of Government Information and Microforms, Louisiana State University.
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Term: June 1, 2022 – May 31, 2025
Kelly Smith Government Information Librarian and Librarian for Urban Studies & Planning and Environmental Studies, University of California San Diego.
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Term: June 1, 2022 – May 31, 2025
Robert Mead State Law Librarian, Washington State Law Library.
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Term: June 1, 2022 – May 31, 2025
Susanne Caro (Chair) Government Information Librarian at the New Mexico State Library.
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Term: June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2026
Gwen Sinclair Chair of the Government Documents & Maps Department, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library.
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Term: June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2026
Angela J.A. Kent, Sr. Manager, Records and Information Management at LyondellBasell’s
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Term: June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2026
Joshua Finnell Professor and Head of Research & Instruction, University Libraries at Colgate University.
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Term: June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2026
Angela Bonnell Head of Government Documents, Illinois State University’s Milner Library.
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Term: June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2026
Sarah Erekson Regional Government Documents Librarian, University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries.
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Term: June 1, 2024 – May 31, 2027
Charlie Amiot Government Information & Serials Reference Librarian and FDLP Coordinator at the University of Baltimore School of Law
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Term: June 1, 2024 – May 31, 2027
Lisa DeLuca Assistant Dean of Public Services and Associate Professor at Seton Hall University Libraries.
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Term: June 1, 2024 – May 31, 2027
Elissa A. Lawrence Government Documents Librarian and Regional Depository Coordinator at the State Library of Ohio
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Term: June 1, 2024 – May 31, 2027
Stephani (Nia) Rodgers Public Affairs Research Librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Cabell Library.
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Term: June 1, 2024 – May 31, 2027
Andrea Stelljes Librarian/Depository Library Coordinator in the Business, Science and Government Documents Department at Hennepin County Library—Minneapolis Central.
Year(s) | Last Name | First Name | Institution/State |
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2024-2025 | Caro | Susanne | New Mexico State Library |
2023-2024 | Kirk | Jen | Utah State University, Merrill Cazier Library |
2022-2023 | Pritchard | Lisa | Jefferson College Library, MO |
2021-2022 | Stringfellow | Will | Vanderbilt University Central Library, TN |
2020-2021 | Kubas | Alicia | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, MN |
2019-2020 | Clark | Mary | Library of Virginia, VA |
2018-2019 | Thornton | Lori | New Mexico State Library, NM |
2017-2018 | Russ | Karen | University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR |
2017-2018 | Shaw | James | University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE |
2016-2017 | Matheson | Scott | Yale Law School, New Haven, CT |
2015-2016 | Pritchett | Hallie | University of Georgia, Athens, GA |
2014-2015 | Concannon | Marie | University of Missouri Elmer Ellis Library, Columbia, MO |
2013-2014 | Weible | Arlene | Oregon State Library, Salem, OR |
2012-2013 | Laster | Shari | University of Akron, Akron, OH |
2011-2012 | Jacobs | James | Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
2010-2011 | Sears | Suzanne | University of North Texas, Denton, TX |
2009-2010 | Shuler | John A. | University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
2008-2009 | Byrne | Tim | University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
2007-2008 | Swindells | Geoffrey | University of Missouri, Columbia, MO |
2006-2007 | Sudduth | William | University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC |
2005-2006 | Selby | Barbara S. | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
2004-2005 | Phillips | John | Edmon Low Library, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK |
2003-2004 | Barkley | Daniel C. | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
2002-2003 | Hartman | Cathy Nelson | University of North Texas, Denton, TX |
2001-2002 | Sevetson | Andrea | University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
2000-2001 | Farrell | Maggie | Montana State University - Bozeman, Bozeman, MT |
1999-2000 | Aldrich | Duncan | University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV |
1998-1999 | Andersen | Thomas | California State Library, Sacramento, CA |
1997-1998 | Watts | Anne | St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, MO |
1996-1997 | Fryer | Janice | Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
1995-1996 | O'Mahony | Daniel | Brown University, Providence, RI |
1994-1995 | Sulzer | Jack | Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
1993-1994 | Duston | Beth | Information Strategists, Manchester, NH |
1992-1993 | Cornwell | Gary | University of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
1991-1992 | Fisher | Janet | Arizona Dept. of Library, Archives & Public Records, Phoenix, AZ |
1990-1991 | Cobb | David | University of Illinois, Urbana, IL |
1989-1990 | Kessler | Ridley | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
1988-1989 | Phillips | Vicki | Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK |
1987-1988 | Hordusky | Clyde | State Library of Ohio, Columbus, OH |
1986-1987 | Smith | Diane | Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
1985-1986 | Cross | Jennie | Oakland Public Schools, Pontiac, MI |
1984-1985 | Peterson | Sandra | The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA |
1983-1984 | Isacco | Jeanne | Cuyahoga County Library, Cleveland, OH |
1983-1984 | Zink | Steven D. | University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV |
1982-1983 | Watts | Anne | St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, MO |
1981-1982 | Myers | Judy | University of Houston Libraries, Houston, TX |
1980-1981 | Smith | Barbara | Skidmore College Library, Saratoga Springs, NY |
1979-1980 | Mawdsley | Katherine | University of California-Davis, Davis, CA |
1978-1979 | Buckley | Francis | Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI |
1977-1978 | Buckley | Francis | Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI |
1976-1977 | Paulson | Peter | New York State Library, Albany, NY |
1974-1976 | Paulson | Peter | New York State Library, Albany, NY |
1973-1974 | McCoy | Ralph | Southern Illinois University at carbondale, Carbondale, IL |
1973 (temporary) | Brock | D. Clifton | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
About the Depository Library Council
The following documents provide the purpose, duties, and general operational characteristics of the Depository Library Council:
- Charter of the Depository Library Council
- Depository Library Council Bylaws and Operating Procedures
Officers
Within Council, there are 2 officer positions.
- Chair: Presides over meetings of the Council and is responsible for organizing the Council, which includes the creation of committees to carry out the duties of the Council. The chair also serves as direct liaison between the Council and the GPO Director. This position is elected by the DLC.
- Secretary: Arranges for the preparation of records of meetings, proceedings, and all of the records of the Council. Handles all official correspondence of the Council and meeting notices. This position is elected by the DLC.
Events
The DLC, in conjunction with GPO, holds two annual events per year: the spring DLC Virtual Meeting and the fall Federal Depository Library Conference, also broadcast virtually.
The following downloadable document lists the dates and locations of all DLC Federal Depository Library Council Meetings.
Proceedings and transcripts from DLC Meetings can be found in the file repository