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September 24, 2008

Mayor鈥檚 office to declare Sept. 25 鈥淯niversity of Louisiana at Monroe Documents Depository Program Day鈥�

Monroe Mayor James E. Mayo鈥檚 office will officially declare Thursday, Sept. 25, as 鈥淯niversity of Louisiana at Monroe Documents Depository Program Day.鈥�

The proclamation will be presented tomorrow at the 网曝门 Library鈥檚 鈥淐elebrating 60 Years of Documents鈥� program reception from 4鈥�5:30 p.m. in the library鈥檚 Special Collections section (Passman Room on the 网曝门 Library鈥檚 fifth floor). Representatives from the mayor鈥檚 office and the 网曝门 administration will be on hand, along with 网曝门鈥檚 mascot Ace. Members of the media are encouraged to attend.

Program activities officially begin at 1 p.m. in the 网曝门 Conference Center (located on the 网曝门 Library鈥檚 seventh floor), as guest speakers Charlene Cain and Lori Smith offer related lectures.

The library will commemorate 60 years as a charter member of the Louisiana State Documents Depository Program (start date: Dec. 11, 1948) and 45 years as a member of the Federal Depository Libraries Program (start date: Feb. 5, 1963).

The mayor鈥檚 proclamation declares:

鈥淲HEREAS, The free and full dissemination of governmentally produced information is essential to an informed citizenry in a democracy; and

鈥淲HEREAS, The United States Congress established the Federal Depository Library Program in 1813, to provide free, unimpeded, local access to official information from the federal government; and

鈥淲HEREAS, The State of Louisiana, in 1948, devised an effective method to achieve the desired and proper dissemination of official state information by means of the Louisiana State Documents Depository Program and has continuously maintained it for 60 year[s]; and

鈥淲HEREAS, Louisiana Governmental Agencies and Public Academic Institutions and Federal Agencies have supported the depository programs by submitting their public documents; and

鈥淲HEREAS, The University of Louisiana at Monroe became a member of the Louisiana State Documents Depository Program on December 11, 1948 and became a member of the Federal Depository Library Program on February 5, 1963; and

鈥淲HEREAS, The staff at The University of Louisiana at Monroe has developed and maintained collections of state and federal documents and provided free service and access to the public; and

鈥淲HEREAS, The University of Louisiana at Monroe and the University Library directors have supported the depository libraries by providing staff, space, equipment, auxiliary services and public access.

鈥淣ow, therefore, I, James E. Mayo, Mayor of the City of Monroe, Louisiana, on behalf of the Monroe City Council and our citizens do hereby proclaim Thursday, September 25, 2008, as 鈥楿niversity of Louisiana at Monroe Documents Depository Program Day鈥� and call upon the community and partner organizations to celebrate with appropriate ceremonies to acknowledge the University Library鈥檚 sixty years of public documents service.鈥�

More about the 鈥淐elebrating 60 Years of Documents鈥� program at 网曝门:
Guest Charlene Cain, head of Access Services at the LSU Law Library, will speak from 1 鈥� 2 p.m. in the 网曝门 Conference Center. Her lecture is about 鈥淭he Cornerstone of Democratic Values: The Librarian鈥檚 Role in Access to Government Information.鈥�

From 2:15 鈥� 3:15 p.m., also in the 网曝门 Conference Center, guest Lori Smith, Government Documents Department Head at Sims Memorial Library, Southeastern Louisiana University, will give a lecture titled 鈥淕overnment Sources 101: An Introduction to Online Government Publications and Web Sites.鈥�

For more information, contact Dr. Karen Cook at: (318) 342-3043 or at kcook@ulm.edu.

Both the state and federal depository programs constitute a proverbial library within a library鈥攕upporting the university students, faculty, administration, and staff, but also providing free community access to government publications. There are approximately 240,000 federal and State of Louisiana publications at the 网曝门 Library.

For more information, contact: (318) 342-1066 or email govdocs@ulm.edu.

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