Government Information Division
2007 Annual Conference Recaps
Denver, Colorado, USA
June 3-6, 2007

The Government Information Division will be recapping all its sponsored and co-sponsored events.  In addition, DGI will offer recaps of other events that impact government information.  This page will be updated as new recaps are made available.

Sunday, June 3, 2007
Opening Keyote Address: Al Gore
Former Vice President Al Gore discussed the roles of librarians in the information age and in influencing information policy during the opening keynote speech of the SLA Annual Conference.

Sponsor: LexisNexis

Monday, June 4, 2007
Winning the Game: Adopting Offensive Strategies for Organizational Success
Rick Luce, Vice-Provost and Director of Libraries at Emory University, discussed keys for information organizations to maximize potential in an SLA conference session presented by the Government Information Division.

Sponsor: Thomson Scientific

DGI Annual Business Meeting: Bernadine Abbott-Hoduski
The Government Information Division was honored to have Bernadine E. Abbott-Hoduski, author of Lobbying for Libraries and the Public's Access to Government Information, speak at the division's annual business meeting.

Sponsor: LexisNexis

Mashups and Remixes for Government Information
Karen Huffman of National Geographic Society and Dan Newman of MAPLight.org presented innovative strategies on creating and accessing government information using mashups during this lively session.

Sponsor: Factiva

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Government Librarians Get Savvy: A Roundtable
Government Information Division presented Government Librarians Get Savvy, an interactive session moderated Donna Scheeder, Director of the Law Library of Congress, about marketing librarianship and obtaining new skills.  This session included presentations from two government librarians: Hildy Dworkin of the New York City Human Resources Administration McMillan Library and Roberta I. Shaffer, the Executive Director of FLICC and FEDLINK.

Sponsors: BNA and Elsevier/Scopus

Digital Preservation for the Nation
Digital preservation of electronic government documents is a vital task of the federal government, but it also presents unique challenges.  Rita Cacas, Communications Director for the U.S. National Archives' Electronic Records Archives (ERA) project, and Mike Wash, Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Government Printing Office, presented on two ways the government is tackling this undertaking.

Sponsor: Deep Web Technologies

Mining Your Own Information Backyard for Economic Growth and Development
A panel group of research experts will present case studies on specific problems and solutions for finding information for local economic development.  Learn how information has real value in local and regional planning.  Speakers are Christine Hamilton-Pennell of the City of Littleton, CO, which practices "economic gardening"; Jenny Shangraw of The Right Place Inc., a regional economic development organization; and Anne Northcott of Export Development Canada.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Government Mapping and Information Update
The Government Mapping and Information Update session featured presentations by Ted Priebe, Government Printing Office (GPO); John Carpenter, ExCensus LLC; and Susan Maroney, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Veterinary Services.

Sponsor: Springer