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The working group was established as a result of a DLC recommendation from their fall 2018 meeting, with the charge of exploring current and future needs related to digital deposit - both dissemination of content and acceptance of content by GPO.
 

This working group was created by GPO Director Halpern, at the request of the Council. It is charged with studying Federal depository libraries at affinity-focused institutions and other FDLs with unique needs and challenges that impact their ability to provide access to tangible and digital depository resources. 

This is a standing subcommittee of the Depository Library Council (DLC) of the that provides a forum where DLC, Federal depository libraries (FDLs), and GPO may explore and discuss opportunities and proposals for collaboration in multiple areas of the program and management and development of depository collections. As the technological world develops rapidly and the physical landscape changes, CDSWG provides opportunities to coordinate thoughts, research, plans, and efforts to move the program forward into the future and to expand and enhance the services we provide to our communities and stakeholders.

This working group examines the practices, policies, and procedures enacted by FDLs since March 2020 as they adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it will assess the long-term impact of these efforts at the institutional and national level.

Since GPO has been using PURLs since March 1998, the PURL Working Group was established with investigating, and reporting on, persistent identifier schemas, including PURLs, to ensure GPO’s implementation is robust enough to best serve depository libraries and users of online Federal Government information.  The PURL Working Group is further charged with providing recommendations to the DLC for consideration.

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This Working Group is convened to research, to report on, and to recommend options for how GPO can collect usage statistics from depository libraries for digital and tangible Government information products. The Working Group also will study and report on the broader landscape of library data gathering trends and recommend possible programmatic library-related performance indicators.