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The Secretary amends 34 CFR part 99 to implement the Department of Education's interpretation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) identified through administrative experience as necessary for proper program operation. These final regulations provide general guidelines for accepting ''signed and dated written consent'' under FERPA in electronic format. These regulations are effective May 21, 2004.

Task force actions and data created from its experience are summarized in this report of the Task Force on Collection Development Policies and Assessments, whose major objectives were to create (1) models of collection development policies and collection assessments that could guide subject specialist/liaisons planning to build the library collection at the University of Wyoming Library, and (2) a schedule for writing collection development policies and conducting assessments. A collection development policy model is included along with collection development policies for specific library collections, i.e., economics, geology, theater and dance, and the film library. A library collection assessment plan model which outlines elements to be included or answered in each subject assessment proposal, a schedule for collection development planning of assessment workload, recommendations on collection development policies and collection assessments, and the formal charge of the task force are also included. (MBR)