F e d e r a l D e p o s i t o r y L i b r a r y P r o g r a m ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ August 15, 2001 GP 3.16/3-2:22/12 (Vol. 22, no. 12) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Agreement Reached on Permanent Public Access to NREL Information The Library Programs Service and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have completed a Memorandum of Understanding for permanent access to NREL's laboratory and outreach publications. Under the terms of the agreement, publications will remain available on the NREL server permanently. NREL is part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Field Office in Golden, Colorado. By assuring that the specified publications are permanently accessible, this arrangement will allow NREL to discontinue providing printed publications to GPO for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and expedite the distribution and access of NREL publications to the public. NREL's online publications will be part of the FDLP Electronic Collection, GPO's growing digital library of Federal Government information. Under the terms of the Memorandum, GPO will provide failsafe assurance that, in the event the NREL can no longer retain publications on its servers, GPO will bring publications onto the GPO archive server. The agreement with NREL was initiated by the agency, and joins a growing list of Federal agencies partnering with GPO to assure ongoing access to their publications. More information about NREL and its activities is available at . You can search in the FDLP Electronic Collection using the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, found at .