GAO Report on LC available on the Web

[Elizabeth Padilla]

Read it.
Find it at :
http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/loc.htm

Before the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress For Release on  
Delivery Expected at 10:00 a.m.  EDT Tuesday May 7, 1996
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE GENERAL AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Not sure what the larger implications of this report are, but it doesn't  
look generous to the global intellectual community.   Also, the "National  
Library Digital program" is mentioned just briefly.


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LIBRARY'S MISSION NEEDS REASSESSING
...Booz-Allen assessed each of these mission and role options and
discussed them during focus groups with Library management,
congressional staff, external customers, and others.  Many focus
group participants perceived a need to systematically limit and
consolidate the Library's global role.  On the basis of these
discussions as well as its other findings from the overall management
review of the Library, Booz-Allen recommended that the Library's
mission be focused within the Congress/nation alternative, and
planning should begin toward a future mission of serving Congress and
performing the role of a national information/knowledge broker.

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-Liz