The Michigan Council of Depository Libraries is in the process of revising the State Plan, and seeks your advice on wording regarding membership on the Council. There are three elected members to the Council and in regard to these positions the current Plan states: "Special efforts will be made to secure representation from the First Congressional District." The Council is discussing whether we should continue to define our membership by geography, or whether we should instead concentrate on various types of libraries or underserved areas.

The Council is considering three options:

1. Keep the current wording.

2. Expand the current wording to include special populations, such as law libraries or underserved areas (tenth and fourteenth districts) in addition to the first district. In this case the wording would be something along the lines of: "Special efforts will be made to secure representation from the First Congressional District, or special populations such as law libraries, or underserved areas such as the Tenth and Fourteenth Congressional Districts."

3. Eliminate this statement entirely and simply open nomination to each of these three positions to persons from any depository library within the state, regardless of location or type.

The Michigan Council of Depository Libraries has put together a Michigan Federal Depository Library brochure for distribution by the federal depository libraries in Michigan. For a copy, contact your favorite Michigan federal depository library. The Regional Depository Libraries in Michigan -- the Library of Michigan and the Detroit Public Library -- can also supply copies in pdf format or microsoft word.