Background Information:
You are the Head of a documents collection at a type of library of your choice and creation.  Describe your library, (size of user population, size of collection, size of documents collection, number of employees, etc), be sure to give all important information.
 
The Problem:
Each year documents and depository librarians are faced with the prospect of cuts to the depository library program or the government printing office.  You have just received your annual urgent message from the American Library Association Washington Office requesting that you contact your legislators to increase the funding for the depository library program.  But, the library and information world is faced with the transition to an Electronic Federal Depository Library Program.  Why do we need to continue to fund a paper Depository Program, won't the Electronic Depository Program be better? 
Read and consult the following materials concerning the transition to an electronic government information system:

1. Refer to the documents related to Depository Libraries that are available on the following pages:
   Federal Depository Library Administration Publications page available at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/fdlppubs.html or
   Basic Depository Library Documents: The Unauthorized HTML Editions
   http://www.du.edu/~ttyler/bdldhome.htm
   
   
2. Final Report to Congress: Study to Identify Measures for a Successful Transition to a More Electronic Federal  Depository Library Program.  The report is at  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/rep_cong/efdlp.html . Be sure and read the Federal Depository Library Program : Information Dissemination  and Access Strategic Plan, FY 1996 - FY 2001," which appears as Exhibit 1 of the  Final Report to Congress: Study to Identify Measures for a Successful Transition to a  More Electronic Federal Depository Library Program [Under Additional Files, click on "Exhibit (Strategic Plan) Only."]  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/rep_cong/efdlp.html
   
   
3. Electronic mail message from the American Library Association Washington Office (ALAWON) concerning 2000 budget funding for the Federal Depository Library Program.   (You will receive a copy)
   
   
4. Read the current issue of Administrative Notes  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/adnotes.html
   
   
5. FDLP Guidelines on Substituting Electronic for Tangible Versions of Depository Publications
   http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/ad051599.html#4
   
   
6. The Library Programs Service in Transition Remarks by Gil Baldwin, Director, Library Programs Service Before the Depository Library Council and Federal Depository Conference
   April 12, 1999  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/ad050199.html#3
   
   
7. The New GPO: Preparing for the Next Millenium Remarks by Francis J. Buckley, Jr.
   Superintendent of Documents Before the Depository Library Council and Federal Depository Conference April 12, 1999 http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/ad050199.html#1
   
   
8. 1999 Recommended Specifications for Public Access Workstations in Federal Depository Libraries http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/adnotes.html#8
   
   
9. Migration of Physical Format Products to Online Distribution [Handout · ALA · 1/30/99]
   http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/ad021599.html#4