Is there a need to conduct meetings of regionals in areas of the county to discuss shared responsibilities?
• Many regional librarians do not attend or are unable to attend meetings. • Self Studies/Inspections/Consultants (Robin) Libraries/librarians have problem with word “inspector.” However, if this is not used, the process is often not given the respect it requires. GPO is proposing the use of consultants as part of the inspection process. A consultant would be assigned to a state or region. He/she would be stationed in a depository library and would make regular visits to all depositories in the area. The consultant would make recommendations, do training session, and work with the regional librarians. GPO would like to do a pilot project and is encouraging regionals to submit proposals for this. Self-study process is not working as planned. It takes too much staff time to do a complete and thorough report on each depositorys self-study. GPO may have to go back to inspecting all depositories. Changes are coming. The self-study report is a valuable evaluation tool for the depositories to
