ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES

            Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program


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                             November 15, 1999
                             GP 3.16/3-2:20/17
                             (Vol. 20, no. 17)

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         Steven Kerchoff Appointed Electronic Transition Specialist

 The Library Programs Service is pleased to announce that Mr. Steven
 Kerchoff has been appointed as Electronic Transition Specialist,
 effective October 10, 1999. His responsibilities will include outreach
 and liaison activities, both with Federal publishing agencies and
 depository libraries, for the purpose of establishing partnerships to
 bring additional electronic products into the Federal Depository Library
 Program.

 Mr. Kerchoff comes to GPO on a one-year inter-agency detail from the
 Library of Congress, where he has worked as a FEDLINK Network Program
 Specialist for nine years. Mr. Kerchoff has also worked as a consultant
 for the Sri Lanka National Library Services Board under the auspices of
 the ALA/USIA Library Fellows Program. In the summer of 1993, he worked as
 reference librarian for the National Performance Review, Vice President
 Gore's task force on re-inventing government.

 A graduate of Houghton College, Mr. Kerchoff holds the M.S. in Library
 Science from Catholic University. He has completed course work for the
 M.A. in Liberal Studies at Georgetown University.