Publishing and

Depository Services

CLA Conference 2006

The Future of Accessing Government Information:
Programs and Partnerships
June 15, 2006 1:30 pm
by
Gay Lepkey
Manager, Depository Services Program
Depository Services Program
•Created by Order-in-Council in 1927.

•In 2003 administration merged with Canadian Government

Publishing (CGP) to form Publishing Depository Services (PDS)

•Acquires, catalogues and distributes federal government

publications in all formats to a network of depository libraries
as well as federal parliamentarians free of charge.

•Acts as the Government’s information safety net, collecting

government publications and making them widely available to
the Canadian public through the Depository library network.

Web site: http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/index-e.html

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Accessing Government Information

Outline

•Depository Services Program

•Preservation
•Access
•Depository Library Resources & Stewardship
•Depository Services Program Compliance

3
Preservation

a.Persistence
b.Version Control
c.Document Integrity
d.Technology Migration

4
Access

•Identifying and locating publications

•General and Computer Literacy
•Connectivity
•Economic barriers
•Printing

5
Library Resources & Stewardship

•Collection Integration
•Electronic Publications
•Shared Off-Site Storage Facilities
•Statistics

6
Depository Services Program Compliance

•De-centralization
•Funding
•Solutions

7
Conclusion

•Statistics