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The "Blur" of Federal Information and Services: Implications for University Libraries.
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Lippincott, Joan K.; Cheverie, Joan F. – Journal of Government Information, 1999
Discusses the interrelation of product content with associated services, or "blurring" (Davis and Meyer) and its relation to federal information and services. Highlights include the federal role in facilitating use of government-collected information; infrastructure and policy issues; and implications for university library reference services,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Federal Government, Government Publications, Information Dissemination
A U.S. Government Publications Collection in a Non-depository Research Library: A Case Study.
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Weatherly, C. Diann – Journal of Government Information, 1996
Offers a case study of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, library without depository status, which maintains a government documents collection through microfiche and subscriptions and compares it to depository libraries in terms of staff, shelving, binding, collection analysis, and quality of service. The future of electronic government…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Depository Libraries
U.S. State Documents in Academic Libraries.
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Yang, Zheng Ye (Lan); da Conturbia, Sandra – Journal of Government Information, 1998
Presents results from a survey examining how academic libraries in the United States manage and promote their state document collections. A questionnaire focusing on general information, coordination of state documents, use of state documents, and electronic access to state documents was distributed to 350 libraries with 277 returned. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Government Publications