The Committee on House Administration held a hearing yesterday titled, “Transforming GPO for the 21st Century and Beyond: Part 3 – Federal Depository Library Program.
ALA’s Gavin Baker points out in this District Dispatch post that this was the first hearing about the FDLP in 20 years.
Read the Complete District Dispatch post.
A video recording of the hearing is embedded at the bottom of this post.
The name of each panelist is linked to their opening prepared statement.
Witness List
First Panel
Ms. Laurie Hall
Acting Superintendent of Documents, Government Publishing Office
Second Panel
Mr. Mike Furlough
Executive Director, HathiTrust Digital Library
Ms. Celina McDonald
Government Documents & Criminology Librarian, University of Maryland
Ms. Beth Williams
Library Director, Stanford Law School
Mr. Stephen Parks
State Librarian of Mississippi
See Also: Letter from Pru Adler (ARL) to Committee