History & Organization
The Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) was created in 1965 as the Federal Library Committee by joint action of the Library of Congress and the Bureau of the Budget (currently the Office of Management and Budget). The committee's home was the Library of Congress where the offices of the FLICC Executive Director conducted the operations of the committee.
During Fiscal 2012, FLICC made systemic revisions to the organization’s bylaws. The newly adopted bylaws created a single organization, FEDLINK, as authorized by statute. The bylaws streamline the organization’s governance structure, create a more transparent organization, encourage greater membership participation, and create a single “brand” for the organization.
FEDLINK’s members represent the four national libraries - the Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, National Library of Education, and National Agricultural Library - and cabinet-level executive departments, legislative, judicial, and independent federal agencies with major library programs. The Librarian of Congress chairs FEDLINK.
FEDLINK’s mission is a merger of the original FLICC and FEDLINK missions, goals, and objectives into four distinct responsibilities:
• improve utilization of federal information resources;
• provide the most cost effective and efficient way to procure necessary information and materials for federal libraries and information centers;
• serve as a forum for learning and discussion about federal information policies, programs and procedures, and
• help inform Congress, federal agencies and others concerned with information resource issues.
Through FEDLINK, agencies have cost-effective access to a number of information- or operations-support services, including:Online reference databases
· Books
· Bibliographic Utilities (Cataloging, interlibrary loan, acquisitions, and serials control)
· Foreign Language
· Information Retrieval Services
· Preservation and Digitization
· Serials subscription services
Last Updated: 12/09/2019
